Writing-expository assessments for Easel

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Informational Text, Writing, Writing-Expository

Also included in: STAAR Extended Constructed Response ECR Writing Prompts and Video How-To Bundle

PROS AND CONS OF TINY HOUSES OPINION WRITING [GOOGLE SLIDES & EASEL]

Created by

Love4Learning

PROS AND CONS OF TINY HOUSES OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK]PROS AND CONS OF SELF-DRIVING CARS OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK]PROS AND CONS OF ELECTRIC CARS OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK]VIRTUAL VS IN-PERSON LEARNING OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK - GOOGLE SLIDES]This product includes two persuasive informational articles that pinpoint the positives and negatives of living in tiny houses for young writers to develop their opinion writing skills by using fact based articles. This would be great for

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

W.3.1

, W.4.1

, W.4.2

, W.5.1

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Also included in: OPINION WRITING DIGITAL AND PRINT BUNDLE [GOOGLE SLIDES LINKS]

STAAR ECR Practice Prompt Extended Constructed Response Writing ECR Checklist

Created by

Are you searching for a simple yet effective way to help your students achieve a high STAAR score on their ECR? Look no further! Our comprehensive set of ECR Writing Prompts and Planning Pages has got you covered.Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested resources will boost your students' writing confidence and familiarity with the STAAR Extended Constructed Response expectations.➡️ Looking for Elementary or High School? Expose your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade s

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Also included in: STAAR Extended Constructed Response ECR Writing Prompts and Video How-To Bundle

STAAR Extended Constructed Response ECR Prompts, Checklist, Strategy High School

Created by

Are you searching for a simple yet effective way to help your students achieve a high STAAR score on their ECR? Look no further! Our comprehensive set of ECR Writing Prompts and Planning Pages has got you covered.Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested resources will boost your students' writing confidence and familiarity with the STAAR Extended Constructed Response expectations.➡️ Looking for Middle School?Expose your English I & II students to exactly

Subjects:

Grades:

9th - 11th

Types:

Back to School, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository

Also included in: STAAR Extended Constructed Response ECR Writing Prompts and Video How-To Bundle

September Writing Prompts Journal Choice Board Fall

Created by

Think Grow Giggle

Looking for September, Back To School writing activities and journal topics to engage your writers this fall? These high-interest and engaging writing prompts are seasonal and relate to what students are experiencing this month and will surely keep their motivation high as you get to know your new students as writers.Writing genre posters make great anchor charts for your writing bulletin board and will help guide your instruction all month long!This writing unit can be easily infused into any w

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Posters

CCSS:

W.2.1

, W.2.2

, W.2.3

, W.3.1

Autumn, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository

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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May

October Writing Prompts Fall Journal Choice Board Morning Work

Created by

Think Grow Giggle

Looking for October writing activities that are high-interest and easy-to-use to engage your students? This set will bring the spark back into your writing block with high-interest topics kids love writing about!Help your students practice and master writing all three writing genres - opinion, informative, and narrative. These writing prompts are seasonal and relate to different special days in October, like Fire Safety Day, Hayrides, and Halloween. Also included are writing models for each genr

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

W.3.1

Rockin Teacher Materials by Hilary Lewis

, W.3.3

, W.4.1

, W.4.2

...

Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May

Writing Better Sentences by Expanding Short, Choppy Sentences

Created by

Use these graphic organizers to help your students take a short, simple sentence, and make it into a descriptive sentence. This activity walks students through the process of adding more to a sentence to make it more interesting. Included in this pack is:Author at Work poster2 graphic organizers(flow charts) to help kids make a longer and more interesting sentence. (One with lines & one without.)13 different worksheets for kids to write a longer sentence from the shorter one that was given.1

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Vocabulary, Writing-Expository

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Assessment, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

W.2.5

, W.3.5

, W.4.5

, W.5.5

Identify The Thesis Statement Worksheet

Created by

Language Arts Aids

Each question is an introductory paragraph of an essay. Students are instructed to underline the thesis statement and predict the prompt. I use this as practice in identifying a thesis statement before I have students write their own. It really helps to see student examples of thesis statements first. Three questions are easier, with typical three reason thesis statements at the end of the paragraph. Three questions are a bit trickier because the reasons are in separate sentences from the actual

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Scaffolded Notes

Also included in: Thesis Statement Worksheet Bundle

Text Based Evidence Writing | Essay | Rubrics| RACES | Organizers

Created by

Scholastic Runway

Teach the "write" way with this text-based evidence writing guide. The step-by-step lesson guides students and teachers through 10 detailed steps that teach how to write each sentence of an evidence-based essay. Teachers and students will love the easy-to-remember strategies for writing an introduction paragraph, thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Students will also learn how to improve writing by including a hook sentence with a related effective ending. Apply the

Subjects:

Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

Also included in: Text Based Evidence Writing Bundle

Expository Writing Prompts Grade 6-8 STAAR and CC aligned

Created by

Fisher Reyna Education

This complete unit has three parts: Do you need a FANTASTIC informational writing unit? This is it! This unit offers powerful collaborative to independent writing activities with many options for your writing instruction needs.Part 1: Teach the Informational Outline. Provides a prompt and resources to collaboratively write an essay to teach the organization and structure of effective informational essays. Prompt, Outlines, Graphic Organizer, Sample Essay, Introductory and Closing Samples, and C

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

W.6.2a

, W.6.2b

, W.6.2c

, W.6.2d

, W.6.2e

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STAAR English I & II Writing Prompts | Print & Google Forms

Created by

Preparing for ELA End of Course Exams can be stressful and time-consuming. Save time with writing prompts that are thoughtfully crafted to help your students prepare.After studying the newly release STAAR English I & II Exams, I came up with 10 written composition prompts to simulate the real STAAR English test and help your students become better prepared for the writing portion. The prompts include Expository, Persuasive, Narrative, and Letter Writing. Exposing students early can make a HU

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Informational Text, Writing, Writing-Expository

Also included in: STAAR High School ELA & Writing Prompts Boot Camp Revising Editing Paired Texts

PROS AND CONS OF SELF-DRIVING CARS OPINION WRITING [GOOGLE SLIDES & EASEL]

Created by

Love4Learning

PROS AND CONS OF SELF-DRIVING CARS OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK]PROS AND CONS OF TINY HOUSES OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK]PROS AND CONS OF ELECTRIC CARS OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK]VIRTUAL VS IN-PERSON LEARNING OPINION WRITING [DIGITAL LINK - GOOGLE SLIDES]This product includes two persuasive informational articles that pinpoint the positives and negatives of self-driving cars for young writers to develop their opinion writing skills by using fact based articles. This would be great for hybr

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

CCSS:

W.3.1

, W.4.1

, W.4.2

, W.5.1

...

Also included in: OPINION WRITING DIGITAL AND PRINT BUNDLE [GOOGLE SLIDES LINKS]

Informational Text Writing Rubric

Created by

Informational Text, Writing, Writing-Expository

An Informational Text Writing Rubric that is a useful tool for evaluation and assessment of writing informative or explanatory texts. Given prior to a writing assignment, it will help students pay attention to details and convey ideas clearly and accurately. Determine whether writing exceeds, meets, or does not meet standards for ideas, organization, style, and conventions. Students can use the rubric for self-evaluation and peer review. Teachers can use it as an assessment. Includes teacher dir

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Rubrics

CCSS:

W.5.1b

, W.5.2

, W.5.2b

, W.5.4

, W.6.2

...

Also included in: Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE

Expository Essay Rubric also for Explanatory & Informative Writing w/ Google

Created by

Love and Let Lit

Use this common core aligned essay rubric to guide students through the objective writing standards for expository, explanatory and informative writing. This resource includes two different rubrics. The first is traditional with five categories: Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion, Ideas/Content, and Conventions/Word Choice. The second rubric is designed for expedited grading with boxes to check for areas of growth. When I used the expedited rubric in my own classroom, I averaged 3-5 minut

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Expository Writing Essay Unit 2 Weeks of Lessons & Student Writing, High School

Rubrics - Middle School Expository Writing Rubric

Created by

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository

Middle School Expository Writing Rubric. Use with expository essays and help middle school students focus on what they need to achieve in order to meet state standards. The standards-based rubric has four categories: conventions of language, purpose and style, organization, and development and support of content. Standards-based grade (4-point scale): students will exceed, meet, approach, or fall below standard in each category. Students can self-evaluate their work. Two styles - one with and o

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Study Guides, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

Also included in: Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE

Writing Pre-Assessments

Created by

Brianne Dekker

These are pre-assessments I use with my third grade students for our Lucy Calkins writing units throughout the year. There is a writing pre-assessment for narrative, informational, persuasive, and fairy tale writing, as well as an added poetry pre-assessment. Use these before beginning your units to get a picture of your students' ability and familiarity with different writing genres.* This product is also part of my Third Grade Writing Bundle, which includes writing checklists, pre-assessments,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment, Printables

Also included in: Third Grade Writing Bundle

AIR Reading Test Prep | Fiction Practice Test 3 | PDF & Digital

Created by

A Cozy Classroom

Help your students practice their reading comprehension skills with exciting paired fiction passages. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they might see in standardized testing, MOY Testing, or end-of-year exam. Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-based s

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.6.1

, RL.6.2

, RL.6.3

, RL.6.4

, RL.6.5

...

Also included in: Test Prep Reading Comprehension Mega Bundle | OST Ohio AIR | Print & Digital

Fiction Book Report Assignment and 100 Points Grading Sheet

Created by

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing-Expository

A detailed book report guide that is easy to grade! Includes fiction book report assignment sheet and a detailed 100 point grading sheet. This book project on fiction will help students write a book review that is well-developed and thoughtful. Each section is detailed as to what is required, and the total points possible equals 100, making it easy to grade. The grading requirements sheet is divided into 9 sections: the introduction, characters, plot, setting, theme, conclusion, composition stru

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Handouts, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.2

, RL.5.5

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.1

...

Writing a Summary Rubrics and Reading Passages with Easel Activity

Created by

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Expository

A writing rubric assessment tool for a short summary. You get two rubrics: one for writing an objective summary and one for writing a summary with critical analysis. You also get two reading passages for students to practice writing summaries (one about Jackie Robinson and one about Navaho Code Talkers). Students write constructed responses to prompts on mastery assessments and must be able to summarize objectively and with analysis and interpretation. Objective summary (no opinion) and Summary

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Handouts, Assessment, Rubrics

CCSS:

CCRA.W.4

Also included in: Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE

Declaration of Independence vs. Rights of slaves. women, and Native Americans

Created by

World's Okayest Teacher

The goal of this product is to have students read and analyze primary source material and other pieces in order to understand the contradiction in our Declaration of Independence and the rights of slaves, colonial women, and Native Americans. Students will engage in reading an excerpt of the Declaration of Independence with text based questions. There are quotes of various Founding Fathers concerning their opinions on the practice of slavery with critical thinking questions. The product gives su

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Other (Social Studies - History), Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

Also included in: American Revolution Bundle

End of Year Friendly Letter of Self Reflection to the Younger Me CCSS Grades 5-8

Created by

Smarter Teaching K-8

This "Dear Younger Me" writing activity, encourages students to engage in powerful self-reflection by composing a friendly letter to their younger selves. This letter writing activity is a deeply personal journey that combines fun with introspection, fostering both personal growth and academic skills.What This Lesson Offers:Two Anchor Charts: To enhance your classroom discussions and debates.Inspirational Quote by Fred Rogers: A thought-provoking quote to motivate and guide students through thei

Subjects:

Back to School, Character Education, Writing-Expository

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

...

Also included in: Writing Bundle CCSS Grades 5-6 Print and Teach

5th | 6th | 7th Grade Essay Writing Rubric | Explanatory & Argumentative | CCSS

Created by

Just Another Smith

Looking for an "All Inclusive" standards-based essay rubric to use for assessing student writing? One that you can edit to meet your needs? This rubric is promised to become a staple in your classroom. In fact- it may be the last essay rubric you will ever need! Our rubric can be used to evaluate Informative, Persuasive, or Argumentative Essays. Written in student friendly language, this rubric can be used for teacher, peer, or self assessmentAppropriate for Upper Elementary School/ Middle Scho

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Assessment, Rubrics

CCSS:

W.5.1

, W.5.1a

, W.5.1b

, W.5.1c

, W.5.1d

...

7th grade Revising Practice , "Always Good to Know About Snakes"

Created by

Nicolas Morgan Born Teacher

A 7th grade level practice passage designed to familiarize students with the STAAR (state mandated assessment) objectives and format. Twelve test-like multiple choice questions follow the passage. As a companion piece, a PowerPoint presentation is also included. The PowerPoint presents only the multiple choice questions, using animation, opening up a variety of FUN ways to present this lesson. BTW - This product is also included as part of a BUNDLE: Revising and Editing Practice, 7th Grade,

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Assessment

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

STAAR Writing Prompts | Print & Google Forms

Created by

After studying the released STAAR 7th grade writing tests, I came up with 10 written composition prompts to simulate the real STAAR test and help your students become better prepared for the writing portion. The prompts include Expository, Persuasive, Narrative, and Letter Writing. Includes Google Forms Links and made Digital with TpT's Easel.(STAAR® is a trademark registered by the Texas Education Agency which is not affiliated with and does not endorse this product.)Resource includes:- TEKS Br

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