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3rd grade writing-expository handouts
Biography Graphic Organizers Research Project Book Report and Writing Templates
Are your students overwhelmed by the thoughts of a research project? Do they struggle with not knowing how to organize their information and thoughts to create a biography report?These Biography Research Project and Writing Templates are designed to help your students easily complete a biographical research paper, and create a fun final project.Use this easy-to-use project to help your students learn how to write a biographical research paper. Choose from 4 different graphic organizers for stude
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2nd - 6th
Wax Museum Biography Research Report for 3rd - 6th Grade Social Studies Project
Need an easy to use, meaningful research project that your students, parents, and principal will love? This Wax Museum Project is a highlight of the year and will guide your students to create a biography research report on a famous person. The culminating part of the project is an amazing Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and stand “still”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” on their backdrops to hear a short
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3rd - 6th
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Transition Words and Phrases
**UPDATE**
After using this for a couple years, I've added two new pages.
This now includes:
1. The original Transition Words and Phrases page detailed below.
2. Transitions for Primary Essay Paragraphs
(This page is what I use on a more day to day basis when teaching writing and appropriate transitions for different places in primary level essays. This page also includes Transitions to Text Evidence and Evidence Elaboration)
3. Ways to Hook Your Reader
This is a compilation of Transition W
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Opinion Writing graphic organizer - OREO
This is a graphic organizer for opinion writing using the strategy OREO (opinion, reason, example, opinion). This organizer includes space for 3 reasons and examples, and has line sections for students to write in.
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1st - 6th
Writing Leads Anchor Charts for Narrative & Informational Writing Hooks
Teach your students to write descriptive and engaging writing leads! This resource has 20 popular writing hooks that students can use to enhance the beginnings of their narrative and informational writing. Each anchor chart states the name of the “writing hook” and gives examples to help students produce their own. The Hooks/Leads anchor charts come small enough to fit into student notebooks. If all 20 are used, these charts will only take 2.5 pages of your student notebooks, leaving PLENTY of s
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3rd - 6th
ELA Descriptive Writing Activities Bundle, Writing Paper, Writing Center Posters
Looking to enhance your writing workshop block? You will receive 11 helpful resources to engage and help your writers! There are mini and full-size charts for creating reference sections in your writing journals or to use as posters for your classroom wall! There are also materials included to help you set up a writing center and to support your students through the writing process! Save 25% when purchasing this bundle.-Resources come in color and black and white options!-Most charts come in mi
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3rd - 6th
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Transition Word Lists for Narrative and Expository Writing
Encourage better Organization, Sentence Fluency and Word Choice in your students' writing with these transition word lists for narrative and expository writing. They would work great in students' writing workshop folders. Blank templates allow for students to add their own transitions as well. Perfect for meeting CCSS!
What You Get:
~Transition Word and Phrase List for Narrative Writing
~Transition Word Bank for Narratives- for students to add their own transitions to throughout the year
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Writing Conclusions Anchor Charts for Narrative & Informational Writing
Teach your students to write powerful conclusions! This resource has 16 popular writing conclusions that students can use to enhance the ending of their narrative and informational writing. Each anchor chart states the name of the conclusion type and gives examples to help students produce their own. These posters come small enough to fit into student notebooks. If all 16 are used, these charts will only take 2 of your student notebooks, leaving PLENTY of space left over! Charts also come in a s
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3rd - 6th
Writing: Sentence Starters for Scaffolded Paragraphs & Essays- Upper Elem.+
My #1 selling resource!Take the stress out of paragraph or essay writing with these graphic organizers and rubrics, featuring sentence starters & frames! The interactive PDF pages include separate pages for each resource, as well as multi-page documents, making it a one-stop shop for your writing needs. Included are organizers for Persuasive, Cause and Effect, Opinion, Narrative, Expository, and Comparative and Contrasting writing with accompanying rubrics for more scaffolded writing. As of
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3rd - 8th
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Argumentative / Opinion Essay Graphic Organizer and Outline
This is great for grades that do argumentative or persuasive papers. This will help them sort their thoughts as they read the grade level articles and develop a well thought out essay. It transfers over to a five paragraph paper and I have seen tremendous results with it in my classroom. It can be turned into a self made graphic organizer so they can prepare themselves to be tested on this type of writing. It includes reasons, explaining reasons, evidence, explaining evidence, concluding paragra
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Writing Graphic Organizer *BUNDLE* Informative and Argumentative
Transition Words and Sentence Starters for Informational Writing One pager
Transition Words and Sentence Starters for Informational Writing One-pagerThis one-pager is perfect for students who need support with transition words and sentence starters for their informational writing. It includes:sentence starters for the introduction parttransition words for giving facts and the conclusion part. It comes with both black and white and colored versions. You can print a copy for each student to put in their writing folder so that they can refer to this one-pager whenever the
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K - 5th
Transition Word List: Writers Workshop handout, bookmark, posters!
List of writing transition words and bookmarks to use as a student handouts, writing journal resource, classroom posters, writers notebook, or bulletin board. Perfect for editing or revising stories during the writing process! Can be used all year long, for many writing genres: narrative, informational, and persuasive (opinion) writing!Sorted by categories:Time WordsEmphasizing WordsLocation WordsComparing WordsContrasting WordsClarifying WordsConcluding WordsAdditional Information WordsWords ar
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2nd - 5th
Procedural Writing - Writer's Workshop "How-to" Unit
Procedural "how to" writing is an engaging and fun way to bring the “real world” into the classroom. What is included:Characteristics of Procedural Texts – a one page description of features usually found in procedural (“how-to”) texts.Reviewing a Procedural Text – students will select or use a teacher-chosen procedural text to review. Students will read or scan the procedural text, checking off each characteristic that they find. Students will then describe the most useful feature of the tex
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Viet
Text Based Evidence Writing Bundle
Text-based evidence writing step-by-step lessons and writing resources to guide students and teachers. This bundle includes RACES paragraph sentences starters, writing rubrics, and a step-by-step guide for writing an essay. Sentence StartersPut your brain in gear before you put your writing in motion! These sentence starters not only help students determine the type of evidence to locate but also help students to construct the evidence into a text-based paragraph.Perfect ParagraphsEach step of
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3rd - 10th, Adult Education
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Expository Essay Outline: 5 Paragraph Essay
Includes:
-Color Coded outline to help students formulate a 5 paragraph expository essay.
-What is an expository essay? Handout/graphic organizer
-Expository Essay tips
Introduction, 3 Body Paragraphs, Conclusion
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2nd - 8th
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Compare & Contrast Essay Graphic Organizers
Here are two differentiated compare & contrast essay flow maps. These flow maps help students in making the connection between the skeleton flow map with its few key words and the complete sentences of the rough draft.
One flow map is made for 4 paragraphs: Introduction, Similarities paragraph, Differences paragraph, and Conclusion.
The other map is made for 3 paragraphs: Introduction, Similarity & Difference paragraph, Conclusion.
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3rd - 8th
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Monthly Writing Picture Prompts | June Journal Prompts with Pictures Inc
This resource is a bundle of ALL of our writing prompts. There are 675 writing prompts covering a variety of topics including the seasons, each calendar month, the holidays, and a variety of other topics as stated below. There are 15 writing prompts for each TOPIC and those are further broken into opinion writing, informative/explanatory writing, and narrative writing. We have also included mini versions of each writing prompt that can easily be pasted into an interactive notebook or writing
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3rd - 5th
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History Then & Now **2nd grade Social Studies Unit**
Are you looking for quality resources to use for teaching your Social Studies Unit for History? This is the perfect unit for your 2nd or 3rd grade class! I have created short reading passages with accompanying comprehension activities. I also included pages to use as your students conduct research on influential people. The then & now passages include the following topics: Clothes CommunicationFoodFun & GamesHomesTransportationSchoolThese passages are not editable, but can easily fit int
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2nd - 3rd
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Wild Weather Research Reports (Common Core Aligned)
This resource is a great way to get your students doing a little extra research and expository writing in the classroom! Use this packet to assist students in researching and writing about various types of storms and wild weather (i.e. blizzards, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and thunderstorms). This packet includes the following:
* Common Core Alignment breakdowns for first and second grade
* Suggested Books to Use (Scholastic's Science Vocabulary Readers "Wild Weather Pack" by Alyse Sweene
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1st - 3rd
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Transition Words and Phrases
This is a graphic organizer of transition words and phrases that I've categorized into five sections: *to compare*to contrast*to give examples*to emphasize a point*to concludeI tried to list transitions that would be "user-friendly" for kids and having them in categories helps students find the type that will best fit with what they are writing.
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2nd - 9th
Expository Writing Unit with Best Selling Color Coded Organizer **REVISED**
Use this color coded Expository Essay Graphic Organizer to help students organize the perfect 5 paragraph essay. Each detail is color coded to show students how the detail paragraphs are summarized in the opening and closing. Also, the openers, topic sentences and closers are the same color to show how these sentences are related. With this graphic organizers, students are able to see a pattern that can easily be replicated to create the perfectly organized essay.
I print each child their own
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3rd - 7th
Informative or Expository Writing Graphic Organizer and Outline
This is great for grades that do expository or informative papers. This will help them sort their thoughts as they read the informational articles and develop a well thought out essay. It transfers over to a four paragraph paper and I have seen tremendous results with it in my classroom. It can be turned into a self made graphic organizer so they can prepare themselves to be tested on this type of writing. It includes topics, claim, evidence, cite evidence, explain evidence, conclusion, summariz
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Graphic Organizer *BUNDLE* Informative and Argumentative
Revision & Editing Checklists for Students ~ Informational, Narrative, Opinion
Included in the .zip file are 3 .pdf documents. There is a one page revisions/editing checklist for Narrative, Informative, and Opinion writing pieces. The 3rd grade CCSS was used to help align vocabulary and expectations, but it could be used in 2nd-5th as a guide for good writing.
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2nd - 5th
All About Book- Template & Packet
This template is a perfect way for students to publish informational writing projects! I use this template for my All About Books my students do in Writer's Workshop!
This template could also be used to publish any writing project- just use pages the pages you want to create a unique booklet.
Included within the template are:
*Cover page (3 choices)
*Dedication page
*Table of Contents page (3 different choices)
*A diagram page
*Uniquely designed pages for creating 1-4 chapters of informa
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1st - 6th
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