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Writing-expository Common Core W.3.4 lessons
Informational Report Writing Unit THIRD GRADE
My third grade informational report writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write an engaging informational report essay, including research, note-taking, and paraphrasing skills. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your e
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Also included in: Writing, Grammar, and Spelling Unit 2 Bundle THIRD GRADE
Weekly Writing Journal Prompts Digital and Printable for Upper Elementary
Weekly Journal Writing Prompts for 3rd to 5th graders. Each prompt comes with a special word bank and tips for checking the writing prompts. 50 total writing prompts: 42 are general prompts for any time of the year and 8 are seasonal, holiday prompts. The unit also comes with getting started writing mini-lessons, writing rubric options and more.The set now includes a digital version in both Google Slides for Google Classroom and Powerpoint. This resource was designed for a once a week journal wr
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3rd - 5th
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2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Lessons for Informational and Paragraph Writing
Are you looking to spice up your writing block with fun, engaging, and meaningful activities? This is UNIT FOUR of an 11 unit series. This unit will guide your students in writing three informational writing pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have three themes for this writing unit: Writing Informative Paragraphs with Hamburger Paragraphs (in this week students will also inform the reader about their friend), All About Holidays, My Specialty: _____ where stude
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2nd - 3rd
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Interactive Research Papers & Essays for Common Core Writing Grades 4-6
This is the companion to my Interactive Writing Notebooks, picking up where it leaves off with more advanced writing assignments. Just like my other products, all of these lessons are differentiated and scaffolded to meet ALL of your students' needs.
This product includes 5 very detailed writing units that will likely take between 1-2 weeks to complete each one. These units can be done in any order but do increase in difficulty with each one.
You do not have to have my Interactive Writing Note
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4th - 6th
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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
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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Biography Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grades 3-5 (CCSS)
"Best biography unit I have seen!!!"“Fantastic resource to use for research of ANY historical figure.”“I just LOVE your writing units. They are so thorough and helpful.”Looking for a method to make research writing easier to manage for you and your students? Want a resource to bring new life to the Wax Museum or Famous Inventors reports you’ve been doing for years? Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on just one and help students make it better and better through mult
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3rd - 5th
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Writing - Fairy Tales - Just Write! The Bundle
Writing lessons with a consistent plan help encourage young writer’s to WANT to write. Simple, cohesive plans lead to clear and accurate writing – which in turn leads to confidence.Using well known fairy tales as a starting place, Just Write! will help you guide your students in informational, opinion and narrative writing lessons. Check out the individual Just Write! packs for a preview of what is included in each of the 9 products included in this pack. The Just Write! Bundle includes:*9 detai
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K - 3rd
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Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 3rd-5th
Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea
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3rd - 5th
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Writing Units BUNDLE for Grades 2-4
Looking for writing units that will save you TONS of time lesson planning, prepping, and teaching? Then this bundle is for YOU! This easy-to-implement Writing Bundle includes 3 units (narrative, informative, and opinion) with the following:standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive notebooks)teacher examplesmentor text suggestionspublishing papers...and more!Guide
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2nd - 4th
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Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time THE BUNDLE
Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time: THE BUNDLE is designed to help primary students write perfect paragraphs with five main parts: an introduction, three details or reasons, and a closing statement. The students are asked to complete the parts in a step-by-step approach in a logical order that makes sense and is easy for students to grasp. They will also review and discuss their peers’ writing and provide feedback for revising and editing.These activities can be completed as morning work, ho
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2nd - 3rd
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Responding to Text Writing Curriculum: Expository
Responding to Text Expository Writing CurriculumResponding to text is an important and challenging skill that our students are being asked to do. This unit is a six-week writing curriculum that guides both students and teachers through the paired passage/responding to text process. This collaboration provides a systematic teacher-guided approach that builds stronger writers and empowers all learners. What's IncludedTeacher Binder (Editable) - to store all your master copiesLong-Range Planner - f
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3rd - 5th
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Expository, Narrative, and Opinion Writing Bundle with 90 Prompts and Organizers
This resource provides you with 90 writing prompts and templates to make teaching writing easy! Choose task cards and a blank template for your writing center or choose the templates with prompts for quick writing lessons. There are 30 Expository writing prompts, 30 Persuasive/Opinion writing prompts, and 30 Narrative writing prompts. With over 90 prompts, this bundle will provide you with a great variety of prompts to engage your students and keep them writing! This bundle includes:- 90 No-Prep
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3rd - 5th
Opinion Writing Unit for 2nd or 3rd Grade
"Hands down the best writing unit I have run across! Engaging, fun, and easy to teach!!" -KM, Teaching opinion writing is straight-forward and fun with this unit! Save time with easy-to-follow lessons and all needed materials at your fingertips! Students write great pieces that are organized, interesting, and accurate!Engage students - high-interest writing topics, colorful visuals, interactive lessonsHelp all students improve their writing - students are supported to do their best writing with
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Common Core Writing Bundle
Expository/Informational Writing with 30 Prompts & Four Square Organizers
This resource with 30 expository/informational prompts and a choice of writing templates is a great way to help students learn to write expository or informational essays. A step-by-step guide is included to show how to effectively use the 4 square organizer to plan out a multi-paragraph essay.Writing is an important skill, but it is also the most difficult language arts skill for many students to acquire. Using the four square graphic organizer will help students understand the components of a
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3rd - 5th
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Back To School Writing & Community Building Activity - Interview A Classmate
Your students will each be interviewing a classmate using a set of provided questions, and writing a short informational piece about their partner using their interview answers. This activity is a perfect class building activity for the first weeks back to school, and can serve as a baseline informational writing assessment. These interviews are a great piece to hang on the wall for Back To School Night. Parents love to see the adorable photos, and usually get a kick out of a few of the intervie
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2nd - 4th
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How to Carve a Pumpkin Prompt - Halloween Writing Activity 2nd, 3rd, 4th Grade
Improve informative writing with Halloween this how-to paragraph prompt. As students explain how to carve pumpkins, activities focus on good beginnings and endings, word choice, sentence variety, sequence and order words. Kids in second, third, or fourth grade have fun while improving their writing.Open the preview to get a closer look.Guided by a series of organizers, students use proven strategies to compose informative texts:Focusing on the explanatory genre of writingPlanningDevelopingUsing
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: 3 Halloween Writing Prompts - Activities for Third and Fourth Grade
Character Biography Reports | Digital and Printable Biography Writing Resources
Character Bio Reports is a great way to teach kids how to write an organized report about a person or a book character... without copying and pasting facts from a website. This assignment requires students to choose a famous person or character, research that person, and write a short character analysis essay. Editable student directions are included, along with a graphic organizer and a scoring rubric. Updated Printables and New Google Slides Resources!This product has been completely revised
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3rd - 7th
Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time September Edition
This product is designed to help primary students write perfect paragraphs with five main parts: an introduction, three details or reasons, and a closing statement. The students are asked to complete the parts in a step-by-step approach in a logical order that makes sense and is easy for students to grasp. They will also review and discuss their peers’ writing and provide feedback for revising and editing.These activities can be completed as morning work, homework, early finisher activities, pa
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time THE BUNDLE
Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time Back to School Edition
This product is designed to help primary students write perfect paragraphs with five main parts: an introduction, three details or reasons, and a closing statement. The students are asked to complete the parts in a step-by-step approach in a logical order that makes sense and is easy for students to grasp. They will also review and discuss their peers’ writing and provide feedback for revising and editing.These activities can be completed as morning work, homework, early finisher activities, pa
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time THE BUNDLE
3RD GRADE EXPLICIT INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITH PROMPTS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 3rd-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 teach.With this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by- step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching wr
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3rd
Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time January Edition
This product is designed to help primary students write perfect paragraphs with five main parts: an introduction, three details or reasons, and a closing statement. The students are asked to complete the parts in a step-by-step approach in a logical order that makes sense and is easy for students to grasp. They will also review and discuss their peers’ writing and provide feedback for revising and editing.These activities can be completed as morning work, homework, early finisher activities, pa
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time THE BUNDLE
Biography Essays: Opinion Persuasive Writing Unit
This writing unit teaches students to write a five paragraph opinion essay with a thesis statement on a biographical figure. With the Common Core’s emphasis on text evidence, this unit will walk you and your young writers through the entire writing process. The unit starts with eight possible reading resources that can be used as students read their biographies. The writing portion introduces students to the idea of writing a thesis statement, and then guides them to select three specific exampl
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: ELA Reading & Writing Mega BUNDLE
Expository Writing / Informational Writing Unit {Common Core}
This 3-week expository writing unit contains detailed mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and activities that will guide students to become expert writers of expository (informational) texts. (This unit is part of my Informational Reading and Writing BUNDLE, so don't purchase this if you already own that bundled product.)Mini-lessons and activities in this unit include the following:- Generating guiding questions- Using questions to guide writing- Graphic organizers for note taking (2 sessions)- P
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Informational/Nonfiction Reading and Writing BUNDLE
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