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Writing-expository lessons for homeschool
Kindergarten Writing Units Bundle | Writers Workshop
This is a complete Kindergarten Writing Units BUNDLE. The units follow a workshop approach while focusing on taking writing slowly by building the foundational skills of illustrations. What's included:Illustration Unit: writers become confident in their drawing and coloring skills. Kindergarten students will learn how to draw with shapes and people with different facial expressions, hairstyles, and skin tones.Labeling Unit: writers become confident in their labeling and sentence structure skills
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PreK - 1st
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1ST GRADE STRUCTURED LITERACY INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITH PROMPTS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 1st-grade informational writing unit is filled with all the writing lessons, prompts, and activities you'll need for teaching students how to create nonfiction writing pieces. The best part? It's completely done for you - just click and teachWith this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by-step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching wri
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1st
2ND GRADE EXPLICIT INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITH GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 2nd-grade informational writing unit is filled with all the writing lessons, prompts, and activities you'll need for teaching students how to create nonfiction writing pieces.The best part? It's completely done for you - just click and teachWith this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by-step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching writ
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2nd
The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RACES Writing Strategy Practice | Reading Passages Prompts GR 6-8 Google Slides
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL WRITING LESSONS: With 10 passages and prompts, students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades learn how to read a text closely and respond with an effective explanatory paragraph using the RACES writing strategy. Students can also use this format to write the body paragraphs of an essay!**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 6-8** This resource is not recommended for grades below 6th.►Except for the acronym, this resource is the same as TIQAC Writing Strategy Practice and Reading Passages. I do not rec
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 5 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Persuasive Writing Unit - Activities and Games | Grade 4 - 6
Create confident writers with these persuasive writing activities and games. This resource breaks down writing instruction, so it is simple to teach and fun to learn!Children love learning through games, and as teachers, we have witnessed the benefits. Due to this, we have included lots of games in this package to build persuasive language skills! It also includes a range of writing prompts, ready to print proformas, reflection activities, text analysis and more.How this pack works:We have divid
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4th - 6th
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5th Grade Informative + Expository Writing | Unit 5 | 6 Weeks of Lesson Plans
Hey there, fellow 5th grade teachers,I've been right where you are, trying to navigate the complexities of teaching informative writing to our eager yet sometimes overwhelmed fifth graders. That's why I put together this 6-week Informative and Expository Writing unit. It's literally packed with all the goodies you'll need to make teaching this skill as smooth as butter.Here's why I think you're going to love it:Over 30 Days of Lesson Plans: I've laid out everything day by day to save you time an
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5th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Writing Unit Bundle | An Entire Year of Writing Curriculum
5th Grade Writing Unit Bundle | An Entire Year of Writing Curriculum
Hey writing teachers!Whew - Writing can be a challenging subject, but with this bundle of writing units, ensure that you will meet all of the standards and save your valuable time! This bundle includes daily lesson plans, teacher materials, student materials, pre and post assessments, rubrics, and more! This is a complete curriculum that can be used as a stand-alone resource or used to supplement an existing curriculum. By purchasing the units as a bundle you save 20%! Included in this unit:- De
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5th
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Paragraph Writing: Step-By-Step Lessons, Interactive Notebook Activities, & More
Teaching students to write paragraphs can be overwhelming!That's exactly why I've created this simple, and easy to use STEP-BY-STEP PARAGRAPH WRITING UNIT that has everything you need to teach your students to write WELL ORGANIZED & STRONG PARAGRAPHS! With this kid-friendly, engaging, & interactive unit your students will be writing 5 sentence paragraphs in no time!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:* 3 writing posters (full-page size)* 3 writing posters (half page size- perfect for interactive noteb
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2nd - 3rd
Five Paragraph Essays Lesson Bundle (DISTANCE LEARNING): Unit for ANY Prompt!
Now with Google Slides versions of lessons for distance learning! Students need to learn the rules in order to break them. Teach students about five paragraph essay structure with this bundle of lessons, ready to use before or during ANY essay assignment (or before standardized testing!).Each lesson is intended to be concise and occur in one class period. They are introductory in nature so that you can teach the skill for the very first time, OR use as a quick review to get all of your students
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6th - 9th
Writer's Workshop Prompts, Mentor Texts, Writing Activities, Exercises, Stations
Writing workshop IS for secondary students. If you want to use a writer's workshop approach to teaching writing, this bundle is for you! It includes multiple resources to help keep your students focused and learning as they build their writing skills. Be sure to check out the preview to see the pile of resources that are included!This writing workshop bundle includes:Quick writing prompts for risk-free writingWriting prompts that include revision exercisesMultiple short mentor texts to provide e
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7th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Writing Lesson - Digital & Printable Writing Activity
If you're looking for a fun and engaging Thanksgiving writing activity, this is it! The Thankful Writing lesson plan includes digital and printable resources for teaching students to write a simple 5-paragraph essay about the things they are thankful for. You'll find directions for introducing this easy expository format, suggestions for leading a brainstorming session, and tips for working with students as they complete their Thanksgiving essays. The best part is that they can glue their essays
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3rd - 7th
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Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Research-Based Writing for Teens, Use Blog Approach to Practice Research, CCSS
Tired of reading page after page of uninspired research papers? Let’s face it – our kids hate writing research essays, causing us to be exhausted when reading their half-hearted efforts. A far better approach to teach the Common Core informative/explanatory writing skills our students need is to use a blog-style treatment as students practice their research skills on high-interest topics.Begin by introducing the elements of a strong blog post and discussing the unique style of this type of writi
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8th - 11th
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Persuasive Writing Unit - Activities and Games | Grade 2-3
Create confident writers with these persuasive writing activities and games. This resource breaks down writing instruction, so it is simple to teach and fun to learn!Children love learning through games, and as teachers, we have witnessed the benefits. Due to this, we have included lots of games in this package to build persuasive language skills! It also includes a range of writing prompts, ready-to-print proformas, reflection activities, text analysis, and more.Teach older students? Find our r
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2nd - 3rd
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Writing Lessons - Engaging Writing - COMPLETE Writing Curriculum
Let’s face it, teaching students to write can be a struggle. For many teachers, it is one of the most difficult content areas to instruct. Engaging Writing™ is your answer to the writing block challenge! This comprehensive writing curriculum is the ONLY writing program you will need!***Please see the PREVIEW and THIS POST to see the different components of Engaging Writing!***Using consistent and clear writing lessons is essential to writing skills mastery. The Engaging Writing™ system guides bo
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1st - 2nd
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My First Journal - Writing Journal with Prompts & Pictures for K - 1st Grade
It is important to get our kiddos writing at an early age. However, writing can be overwhelming when a child can't think of an idea or vocabulary to use. This journal provides students with writing prompts, pictures with words, a box for drawing a picture, and another word bank with a variety of words to use to write a more detailed piece. There are 34 different writing prompts and there are also 2 reference pages: 1 with common beginning sight words and 1 with the alphabet for letter formation.
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: My First Journal Bundle - Writing Prompts for the Youngest Writers
Hochman Method Aligned SUPER Bundle: Lessons 1.1-1.9 (For Elementary School)
Guide your students on their path to becoming excellent expository writers! Together with Dr. Judith Hochman’s wonderful Writing Revolution System, this product is designed to help students fully understand the purpose and structure of a sentence and develop the ability to compose complex sentences that reflect extended thinking. This bundled product includes oral examples for teacher modeling, in-class activities, and some homework assignments related to introducing the following concepts and
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1st - 5th
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PARAPHRASING Practice Task Cards
Are you looking for a paraphrasing activity to guide your students into restating it in their own words? Do your students tend to copy sentences straight out of a book? These simple yet engaging paraphrasing task cards will grab your students' attention with their high-interest topics and unusual facts. This resource is perfect for mini-lessons, small group instruction, or adding it to a writing center.What's Included:32 High-Interest Paraphrasing CardsParaphrasing How To Poster2 Student Answer
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2nd - 3rd
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RACE Strategy - Complete Bundle - Stations, Task Cards, Practice Pages
This Bundle Includes 5 RACE Strategy Products. Please see descriptions of each product below. The preview file with this resource includes all the preview pages in each of the individual products.RACE Strategy - Identifying the Parts Task CardsDo you need exemplars to help you teach what the parts of RACE look like?In my classroom, students need to see what a good constructed response should look like. I use the RACE strategy in my room (R-Restate A -- Answer the question C - Cite the Text E -
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4th - 6th
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Daily Writing Picture Prompts | 100+ Animal Photos Writing Templates
This download includes editable journal pages for over 100+ different animal photos to inspire journal writing through the entire year! This is a NO PREP activity - just project each template onto any white board and discuss together before they write in journals about it.Each vivid full color photo has three differentiated templates to use with your students no matter what level they are working at. These templates are EDITABLE, meaning they have EDITABLE TEXT BOXES so that you can add your own
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K - 2nd
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5th Grade Narrative Writing | Unit 2 | 6 Weeks of CCSS Aligned Lesson Plans
Hey busy friends,I don't know about you, but I love teaching writing! It's just that sometimes it's SO.MUCH.WORK. Well, included in this Narrative Writing Unit is everything you will need to teach a 5th grade writing unit on Narrative Writing, easy peasy! Included in this unit:- Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 2 {30+ days worth of lessons!}- Interactive Notebook Pages- Writer’s Workshop Year at a Glance - Rubrics for grading students work {Using Standards Based Grading}- Mentor Text
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5th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Writing Unit Bundle | An Entire Year of Writing Curriculum
Valentine's Day Writing & Craftivity Project
Are you looking for a February writing project that will truly engage your students? This writing project may be just what you are looking for! This is one of those units that I truly look forward to teaching each year, and it is my BEST SELLING writing unit!This unit begins with the students closing their eyes and imagining that they have walked into a candy shop, looking for a Valentine's Day gift for a loved one. The sales lady shows them a special box of MAGIC Valentine's chocolates. When t
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2nd - 4th
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Opening and Closing Statements
Do your students need help generating good opening and closing statements? How many of your students leave one or both out? Well not anymore! This pack will give your students a few ideas to get them started. You'll be amazed how much better your students' opening and closing statements improve! This product includes:2 posters with a list of variety of ways to open and close writing. These opening and closing statements can be used for any genre of writing. They are both kid friendly and easy
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2nd - 6th
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