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Writing-expository Common Core W.3.4 handouts
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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Argumentative Writing | Opinion Essay | Graphic Organizer | Outline | Grade 3-6+
Empower your students to master argumentative writing with our comprehensive Argumentative Opinion Essay Graphic Organizer and Outline. Perfect for grades 3-12, this resource provides structured support for students to develop clear and well-organized essays. Whether you are teaching argumentative or opinion writing, this tool will help your students craft compelling arguments with ease.What's Included:Graphic Organizer: Helps students visually organize their thoughts and arguments.Outline Templ
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3rd - 12th
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
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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Nonfiction Summary Writing Lesson Activities - Nonfiction Summary PowerPoint
All your Nonfiction Summary Writing Lesson Activities PowerPoint for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Grades are a three-in-one BUNDLE to help you teach students how to write a summary for nonfiction text. You will get a Nonfiction Summary PowerPoint, student handouts, and one digital nonfiction summary writing template practice text.▶️With my step-by-step guided instruction, teaching summary writing skills for non-fiction text is no sweat. This means students are guided through the process to ensure success!S
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2nd - 4th
Information/Expository/Non-Fiction Writing Student Checklist & Rubric *Editable*
Use this product to help guide students in their writing of expository/non-fiction/informative texts, and to help guide you in the grading process! This completely editable checklist covers both the elements of non-fiction writing, as well as the conventions of writing that middle-elementary students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily understand!There are two pages in this document: One Student Checklist w
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2nd - 8th
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The Painted Essay
I have created a visual of The Painted Essay that I use in my classroom. This version is a digital version that I will be using to upload on to my school LMS (Learning Management System). I will also be making a copy of this 2 sided product and include it in a folder that will be send home for all of my students. In addition to the color coded visual there are reference numbers that correspond to student friendly definition. This support has helped my students in their writing process.
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3rd - 8th
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Ultimate Writing Checklist + Teacher Rubric BUNDLE *Editable* | 10 Genres
This bundle of student checklists and teacher rubrics for TEN different writing genres can be used to help guide students in the writing, revising, and editing process, and to help guide you in the grading process! Each of the completely editable checklists cover both the elements of each genre, as well as the conventions of writing that elementary/middle school students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily
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1st - 8th
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Writing BUNDLE!
Informational, Opinion and Narrative Writing (Editable- Sentence Starters/Stems)These sentence stems make a great support for getting your students started with writing. This product includes sentence stems for informational, opinion and narrative writing. Simply print, cut out, laminate and put a magnet on the back of each sentence stem so students can remove them from the whiteboard and hang them back up when they are finished. After I have cut, laminated and put a magnet on the back I sort th
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1st - 4th
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Essay with 5 Paragraphs | Unit Plans
Looking for a sample essay with 5 paragraphs? This bundle has five! These examples of 5 paragraph essay writing are perfect for introducing a unit on descriptive, literary, persuasive (opinion), and informational writing in upper elementary. NEW! Now includes 2-weeks of lesson plans for each essay!Teaching How to Write An Essay with 5 ParagraphsEach essay comes with a checklist of literary elements specific to that type of writing. When introducing a unit, the teacher and students can identi
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3rd - 8th
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Inspirational Quotes Writing Picture Prompts | Quotes Journal Prompts with Pict
This quotes themed writing prompts resource includes 15 notable quotes with corresponding writing prompts to get students thinking, analyzing the quotes, and writing thoughtful responses to the prompts. There are 5 writing prompts for each of the following categories: 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 journal and completed therein.
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Picture Prompts | June Journal Prompts with Pictures Inc
September Writing Packet | Labor Day | 6 Prompts | Writing Process | Autumn Fall
Introducing September Writing Packet, the ultimate resource to ignite creativity and celebrate the autumn season with your 1st through 3rd grade students! Packed with six engaging prompts centered around Labor Day, fall activities, and harvesting, this packet meets the Common Core State Standards for writing while inspiring young writers to explore their ideas and hone their skills.Each prompt is carefully crafted to encourage students to express their thoughts through different genres:Informati
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1st - 5th
Paragraph Writing BUNDLE
This Paragraph Writing BUNDLE contains four resources to improve students' paragraph writing. RESOURCE ONE: The Importance of Hook and Closing SentencesWriting the first and last sentence of a paragraph or essay can be daunting...but not anymore! Show your students the importance of writing a good hook/attention grabbing sentence and a closing sentence.PURPOSE: To teach students the value of including a hook/attention grabber sentence and a closing sentence when you write.INCLUDES: 1. Color co
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3rd - 12th
1st-5th Grade Writing Checklists FULL YEAR MEGA BUNDLE! - PDF or digital
A full year bundle of kid-friendly student checklists aligned with standards for narrative writing, informational writing, opinion writing, editing, publishing, writing reviews, and MORE! SAVE 50% OFF THE PRICE OF INDIVIDUAL CHECKLISTS BY BUYING THE FULL BUNDLE FOR GRADES 1-5!Each checklist includes:-A PDF version to print and copy-A digital version that can be directly assigned and completed on a deviceFIRST GRADEIncludes 10 genre checklists:-My Narrative Checklist-My Personal Narrative Checkli
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1st - 5th
Drop the Mic! Quality Conclusions
This is a mini-unit designed to help your students learn how to write quality conclusions! It includes a presentation with the major components of a conclusion paragraph and samples of conclusion paragraphs.
This package also includes a page of notes for students – perfect for interactive notebooks or student folders and binders – and a practice sheet where students can try their creative writing skills to create conclusion paragraphs for different types of writing.
Perfect complement to m
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3rd - 8th
Writing, Student Practice for Adding Meaningful Elaboration
The attached activities are geared to walk students through the process of “adding details” or “elaboration” to their writing. As teachers, we often tell children to add more details, but we fail to give them the tools needed to be successful at this. This activity provides a beginning structure for adding sensory details to a story – creating a vivid image in the reader’s mind.
This activity was developed by a team of teachers that have lead their 88 fourth graders to the highest-ranking wri
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2nd - 7th
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An Example of an Opinion Paragraph
Looking for an example of an opinion paragraph? This is a 5-day opinion paragraph writing unit with lesson plans, organizers, examples, and a rubric! Lessons are appropriate for 2nd-3rd graders and detailed enough to leave with a substitute.How do you start an opinion paragraph?Opinion Paragraph Unit includes:*5 days of lesson plans*pre-writing organizer*example pre-writing organizer to use as a model*list of topic ideas*list of transition words*rough draft paper*example rough draft paragraph w
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Introduction to Paragraph Writing
Sentence Frames and Scaffolding for 4 paragraph informational essay
Use for Well Scaffolded writing lessons!
2 different Graphic Organizers: use a one that demands more detail from higher writers or shorten/modify the assignment.
NO PREP NEEDED!
Use Youtube videos to help students do research on China's green algae and take notes. You can supplement with articles as needed, but it is not necessary for this to be a well rounded research lesson.
Then use the sentence frames to help students create:
**Introduction Paragraph
**2 body paragraphs
**Conclusion
Earn
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3rd - 9th
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Opinion Writing Revising and Editing Checklist
Here's a checklist for your student's when they are revising and editing their opinion writing. I included some questions for the students to answer in order to ensure they are looking carefully at their writing.
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2nd - 5th
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Incredible Introductions
This is a mini-unit designed to help your students learn how to write an interesting introduction! It includes a presentation with 4 HOOKs for starting off an introduction, samples of personal stories to intrigue a reader, and how to close with a thesis statement.
This product also includes 2 pages of notes for students – perfect for interactive notebooks or student folders and binders, a poster you can print to remind the students how to HOOK their readers, and a practice sheet where students
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3rd - 8th
Timely Transitions: Where and When to Use Them
This is a mini-unit designed to help your students learn how to correctly use transition words in all types of writing! It includes a presentation with common transitions, tips on how to avoid boring transitions, samples of writing using transitions, and practice with changing paragraphs in a narrative text.
This package also includes a page of notes for students – perfect for interactive notebooks or student folders and binders - and practice sheets where students can use what they have learn
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3rd - 8th
Writing Unit: Graphic Organizers and Peer Editing
This is a basic introduction to a writing unit and includes several general graphic organizers for prewriting. It is intended for use with 4th grade, but is applicable to 3rd and 5th. I have the students put the TAP/Writing Purpose sheets in their writing binder for future reference. I appreciate being able to use graphic organizers across the curriculum, and I made them very general for that reason. (I like to get the most out of each dollar!)
I've included my form for peer editing. This is al
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Writing prompts anchor charts Persuasive Opinion Narrative Expository
Check out this complete bundle of digital anchor charts! Digital Posters!These can all be sent easily to students with 1:1 devices and provides the support they need to learn each form of writing. Give your students the support they need!Narrative Process WritingOpinion WritingPersuasive WritingExpert WritingBONUS: Writing Exciting Introductions anchor chart included!Perfect for IEP and 504 supports!
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3rd - 5th
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Writing Trifolds | Writing Process | Narrative | Opinion | Informational Writing
Everything students need for the writing process when responding to text dependent prompts! This goes along with the steps I outline in my guide to teaching Text Dependent Writing Prompt Responses. (COMING SOON!!)You can view a sample of the guide through the link below:A Guide to Teaching Informational/Explanatory Prompt Writing: What is included: 3 trifolds for each type of writing: informative/explanatory, opinion, and narrativeList of steps to writing reading and responding to promptsKey wor
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2nd - 4th
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