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3rd grade writing-expository unit plans
Informative writing for First Grade: All About Book
This informative writing workshop unit was created to help your students create an All About Book about their favorite animal. They will go through the research and writing processes as the unit aligns directly with the common core standards!Each year my first grade students research animals and create their own All About Books! This pack guides you step-by-step as you help your kids discover their love for non-fiction texts and writing. In the end, you have some adorable and informative books f
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
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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Informative Writing Sentence Starters Graphic Organizers Prompts 3rd-5th Grade
Get your 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students excited about informational writing! This complete informational writing unit includes sentence starters, graphic organizers, prompts, rubrics and more! Your students will go through the entire informative writing process, from brainstorming ideas to publishing their own piece of informational writing. The informational writing lessons included can be used in two ways: Students get their own ideas for their essay. Students write based on a prompt. What is
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Bundle
Informational Writing Unit | Writing Workshop | Print and Digital
This comprehensive writing unit meets all your informational writing needs! This is available as a traditional PDF and in Google Slides for easy availability to Google Classroom. ********************************************************************This is 6-week unit is broken down to day-by-day lessons with detailed and easy to follow lesson plans. Each lesson contains directions for a mini lesson, independent work time, and share time (closing). There is also an additional handout or guided pra
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Writing Bundle | Print and Digital | Informational, Opinion, Narrative
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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Summer School Curriculum How to Write a Paragraph Writing Template of the Week
Teach students HOW to write a paragraph the EASY way! ✏️ Our comprehensive "Paragraph Writing" is a go-to curriculum. It offers narrative, opinion / argumentative, expository, summary, descriptive, and conclusions units. It's a step-by-step instructional plan with graphic organizers and templates that makes teaching the writing process a breeze! At the end of these six units, your students will have the fundamental organizational skills needed to craft robust paragraphs, laying a strong foundat
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3rd - 6th
Newspaper Article Writing Unit {Here's the Scoop!}
This unit will have your students excited about writing and thinking reflectively about the world around them.About this ProductThis is one of my favorite Writing Units! Writing a Newspaper Article about the community, school, or class is a fun way for students to develop their writing skills, as well as connect with the world around them. The resources in this unit could be used to teach as a class Writing Unit, to create a class newspaper, a school newspaper, or in an after school club. Stud
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3rd - 6th
Informational Writing -- Common Core Aligned for Grades 3-5
This unit contains everything you will need to teach your students to write an informational text. Addresses the common core standards for informational writing. Perfect for your writer's workshop!-7 Pages of Easy-to-follow mini-lessons (editable). -a complete sample text and 10 adorable reference posters. -a variety of blank writing forms-Tons of examples are given to help you to model good writing for your students!! Common Core Writing Standards addressed are listed for grades 2-5. -- 107
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Writer's Workshop Units of Study -- Ultimate Bundle
Native American Report - Native American Research Project
This Native American Report allows students to use higher level thinking skills to locate important information and create a research report highlighting their new knowledge. This unit includes everything you need to organize the project, including a sample report. All of the directions and the rubric are 100% editable in PowerPoint!This unit includes:Student Project Directions (editable)Presentation Directions and Outline (editable) Research Note Pages (editable)Report CoverReport Pages (editab
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3rd - 6th
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Persuasive Writing Unit- Year 3 & 4- Excellent NAPLAN Prep!
In this unit, students learn the elements of a persuasive writing text in order to effectively construct their own.✩It is a 10-week unit (~10 lessons) that contains all lesson resources including worksheets, printable activities and posters along with enough writing prompts to continue practicing throughout the year!✩ The editable planner includes relevant Australian Curriculum links. Includes a planner for version 8.4 and version 9 of the Australian Curriculum. ✩To keep lessons simple and succi
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Year 3 and 4 Text Type Unit Bundle
Opinion Writing
This fun, high interest opinion writing unit with inspire even your most reluctant writers! Would your students rather be chased by a rhino or a hippo? Would your students rather have a pet chimpanzee or python? These are just a couple of the intriguing questions your class will ponder during this complete 4-week opinion writing unit! Through classroom activities, teacher modeling, and guided instruction you will teach your students about opinions and facts, pros and cons, transitions, how to
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3rd - 5th
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Writing Magazine Project Cumulative Writing Passion Project for End of the Year
Are you looking for a passion project or a cumulative end of year writing activity for students? Having students create their own magazine project is a GREAT way to review every genre of writing! Wrap up your year or begin a new year by reviewing ALL genres of writing focused on one topic with this writing a magazine project: narrative, opinion, informative, how to, letter writing, poetry, and more. Ideas for Using the Magazine Project: This end of year magazine project is very flexible to fit y
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1st - 4th
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Explorers | Explorers Report | Explorers Research Project | Explorers Project
Looking for an organized research project to help your students learn about explorers? This Explorers Report Project will help you guide your students to create meaningful, well-researched explorer reports. The research process included will help your students practice researching, note-taking, organizing, and writing skills.Included in this unit are:A List of Explorers (I pull sticks and let the kids choose. This is my checklist.)Student Directions Handout (Editable)Research Notes (Editable)Map
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3rd - 6th
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3rd Grade Writing Curriculum Bundle - Yearlong Writing Workshop Lessons 70% OFF
Ready to save lots of time? This third grade writing curriculum has everything you need to teach narrative, informational, and opinion writing for an entire year! The lessons in this curriculum are simple and explicit, guiding students through the writing process while providing the scaffolding they need. Watch this preview video to see the components of this third grade writing curriculum.THIS CURRICULUM IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...You want simple and explicit writing lessons with all the materials y
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3rd
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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Informational & Opinion Writing Bundle
This unit has been updated as of February 2019 to include updates for both the Opinion and Informational Writing Units. You can sign up for updates and freebies: http://bit.ly/FREEsourceLibraryThis bundle includes the Informational & Opinion Writing Units. Click the links below or inside the preview to check out the individual units. My Opinion Matters! {Opinion Writing Unit}I'm the Expert! {Informational Writing Unit}Each unit contains ...Writing Notebook Anchor Charts Daily Unit Lesson P
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3rd - 5th
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The 7 Continents: Social Studies MEGA GOOGLE Digital Distance Learning BUNDLE
The Continents Social Studies Distance Learning Google Classroom unit for grades 1-3 includes 7 separate Google units! Units include: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia! Easily differentiate with built in options that require NO EXTRA PREP. Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about the continents in an interactive, digital format that can be easily differentiated for all learners. This resource will
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1st - 3rd
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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
Start Your Own School Newspaper and Newspaper Club
Starting your own school newspaper isn't difficult. I've run (and created) our school newspaper for three years. This document has most of the materials you'll need for set-up. The newspaper club in my school was open to fifth grade students and printed copies were distributed in the school to faulty, staff, classroom libraries, school common areas, and to the newspaper club members. Our newspaper is usually 12 pages long and we use Microsoft Publisher to create it.
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Informational Writing Tools - All About Animals - Sentence Sorts, Organization
Informational Writing Tools is a resource that enhances your informational writing unit.Included are sentence sorts, a publishing page (with lines and a picture, enough for a paragraph), expanding sentence practices, two-way sorts for the introductory sentence, a checklist, and anchor charts. Also included are additional graphic organizers, and title and cover pages for students to complete their own reports.There are not informational texts included in this packet; however, I have pointed you
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2nd - 3rd
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Nonfiction Informational Expository Writing Paper
Looking for paper to draft or publish for your nonfiction/ informational writing unit?I use this paper to support implementation of Lucy Calkins Writer's Workshop Unit of Study for 2nd grade.This 23 page PDF document includes:Cover/title pageTable of Contents11+ designs of various writing paper to promote student choiceGlossaryIndexMost suitable for 2nd grade-5th Grade.
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2nd - 5th
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Ecology Museum Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit About Ecosystems & Adaptations
OVERVIEW:Your students will be invited to join a team of ecologists who are building an ecology museum right in your classroom. The museum will teach other students about how living things survive in their ecosystem by interacting with other living things, and nonliving things. As the Museum Director, you will guide your team of ecologists through four project phases in preparation for the museum grand opening. Your science unit on ecosystems, adaptations, and interdependent relationships will c
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3rd
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Writing Unit | 4th Grade Writing BUNDLE
THIS IS A BUNDLED SET OF MY 6 WRITING UNITS! 36 weeks of writing prompts and 24 writer’s craft mini-lessons focused on narrative, informative, and opinion genres! Buy the bundle and save!Included in this bundle:•Memoir Writing (Personal Narrative) Unit•Procedural/How-To Informative Writing Unit•Compare and Contrast Informative Writing Unit•Opinion Writing Unit•Animal Research Informative Writing Unit•Story Writing (Fictional Narrative) UnitEach 6-week writing unit is composed of six prompts to h
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3rd - 5th
Career Research Report Informative Writing Career Fair
This career research report is a short informative writing project great for letting kids explore a future career. Planning pages, writing process pages, and an optional in-person career fair included! Common core aligned! Can be a digital writing unit or done in person! Both versions included. In this career research unit students take a career quiz, choose a future career, research and take notes, write an outlined rough draft, and publish! I let my students make a big poster to accompany the
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2nd - 5th
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