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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
Email Etiquette Lesson Bundle Digital & Print - How to Email a Teacher
Recent global culture and climate has resulted in an increased demand for virtual communication skills. This email etiquette unit is full of engaging, relevant, and rigorous writing opportunities that provide students with skills they will need to succeed in the 21st century.With this writing unit, both teachers and students will observe quick growth and increased command of tone and professionalism.Email Etiquette Bundle Contents:EMAIL ETIQUETTE TRADITIONAL PRINT UNIT: This is the ever-popular,
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7th - 10th
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Informational Writing Workshop for Middle School ELA PRINT & DIGITAL
Do you need an informative writing unit that includes multiple mentor texts and comes with the option of using a print version or an interactive Google version? Do you want an entire unit that's ready to go, so you don't have to scramble to piece it together? (Who has time for that? Right?)This expository essay unit includes EVERYTHING you need to teach informational writing. At-a-glance-instructions, writing prompts, step-by-step instructions, visuals, graphic organizers, and high-interest ment
Grades:
6th - 8th
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
Grades:
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Informative Writing
Your K-1 kids will love learning about informative writing with this non-fiction writing unit! Students will learn what informative writing is and end the unit by writing their own all-about books. Included are 3 weeks of lesson plans for writers workshop, printables, anchor charts, activities, and writing templates.
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Beginning Writing: Launching Workshop
Opinion Writi
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K - 1st
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Long Ago and Today Comparing the Past and Present
My students and I love learning about life long ago and comparing the past to the present! I love that this Long Ago and Today social studies unit easily integrates with our ELA “ALL ABOUT” informative writing unit. By the end of the unit, students will understand that…They know a lot about differing topics and can write focused information to teach others.They can gather data from various sources like books, websites, videos, and other media sources. They use this knowledge to help them tell mo
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K - 2nd
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Opinion Writing - Writing a Persuasive Business Letter (Google Classroom)
In this engaging 10-day Opinion Writing Unit students write a business letter about a school issue. Writing as a concerned student, students will write a letter to their principal (that they do not necessarily need to send to him/her) based on their opinions. The unit begins with building background on opinion writing. Then, students practice how to differentiate between fact and opinion before completing an opinion and support match-up. Next, students select a school issue to write about.
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5th - 8th
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Expository Writing: Informational Historical News Story (Google Classroom)
Expository / Informative Writing: In this 10-day, Common Core - aligned Expository Writing Unit, students will demonstrate a deep understanding of the features, critical elements, and purpose of expository or informative writing. During the unit, students will write an expository news story about a historic event. Through instruction on the news story structure and investigations of sample news stories, students will understand the critical components of a news story so that they can write th
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: October Unit Plans Bundle - 4 ELA Units to Teach All October Long!
Informational Writing Complete Guide Grades 4-5 | Writing Lesson Plans
This informational writing unit includes all lesson plans, teacher examples, and student printables! Engage your students with the high-interest topic and teacher models!This is a "no prep" unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible informational essays! This resource also includes a research portion with a unique organizer to help them cite their sources. Easily connect
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4th - 5th
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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Biography Writing Unit: Biographical Sketches about Peers (Google-Compatible)
In this detailed, common-core aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about biography writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write biographical sketches about a classmate. In their biographies they’ll include information about their classmate’s early life, personal life, and accomplishments. They’ll also include critical elements of biography writing. Students will research their subject with interviews, journal entry analysis, and photograph reviews. Throu
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5th - 8th
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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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Explanatory Writing Unit for 4th and 5th Grade | Full Lesson Plans
This is a "no prep" explanatory writing unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible explanatory essays! Social Studies Connection: Writing Prompt: If time travel was possible, which year or time period would you go back in time to?Connect your writing instruction to your Social Studies & Reading lessons!Click "preview" to see a list of the Common Core standards covere
Grades:
4th - 5th
Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Brainstorm Graphic Organizer Checklist Rubric
Personal Narrative Unit | Brainstorming, Graphic Organizers, Templates, Checklist, Rubric with PowerPoint & Google Slides for Narrative Writing Unit BundleTeaching the Personal Narrative Unit is easy, fun, engaging, and NO PREP with this Personal Narrative Complete Unit Bundle for your middle school classroom. Start with the narrative writing steps in the PowerPoint or Google Slides. Students will learn how to brainstorm personal narrative writing with guided graphic organizers and templates
Grades:
7th - 10th
Informative Writing Unit Nonfiction Writing Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers
This informative writing unit is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and will help you teach and guide your students through the writing process and research process. This unit has lesson plans that help you plan your nonfiction writing unit!In this resource, you will find:-Informative Writing Anchor Chart-Diagram Anchor Chart-Caption Anchor Chart-Lesson Plans-Shared Writing Component: To introduce your students to informative writing, you will complete a shared writing component (without
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1st - 2nd
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Informative Explanatory Expository Writing Mini Lessons Grade 8 Print Digital
PRINT & DIGITAL. No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching informative writing a snap! In one month, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a full essay. And you'll have time to work with them every step of the way!Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manageable.""Your organization is outstanding, and your thorough pla
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Opinion Writing Unit | Persuasive | Argumentative | Discussion | Expository Text
Teach your students to produce PERSUASIVE writing and INFLUENCES thinking in 2024 with this HUGE writing guide bundle covering: ⭐ Persuasive Texts / Essays ⭐ Expository Essays⭐ Argumentative Essays⭐ Discussions.Teaching each of these writing genres in isolation can be difficult for students to grasp, but this 140+ page DIGITAL & PRINT resource covers all aspects of these writing styles in a fun and engaging manner.It's all here and completely EDITABLE with NO PREP REQUIRED.Includes✅ Lesson P
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Opinion Writing Unit - Lessons and Worksheets Digital & Printable
Use this as a Distance Learning Opinion Writing activity with your upper elementary students. This is a no-prep unit, meaning you can just upload to Google Classroom and have students work through each mini-lesson as you post them. I have included Opinion Writing Prompts, and digital Graphic Organizers for them to use with EACH lesson that is included. This is a FULL unit plan for an Opinion Writing. It includes 6 guided PDF or Google Slides lessons that teach students about all of the elements
Grades:
4th - 6th
Friday Night Lights Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons & Activities
Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger's study of the impact of football in a Texas town resonates across the country. His discussions of the academics vs. sports debate,race, gender, and class issues, and entitlement will hook middle and high school students. Friday Night Lights speaks to the secondary school experience as well as society's expectations.This complete unit plan, includes: Common Core Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy grade level, time frame, assessments, and detailed daily plans as we
Grades:
7th - 12th
Writing Analytical Papers | How to Write Essays: Hook, Thesis, & Body Paragraphs
NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Inspiring! This 25-page EDITABLE writing curriculum has everything you'll need to help your students write high-quality analytical papers on any literary text. This unit was originally designed for 11th- and 12th-grade English teachers who want to help students improve their analytical writing; but it could also be used by history teachers to deliver lessons on how to write high-quality expository essays. Here are some highlights from this 25-page unit on analytical/exposi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Animal Research Reports
Animal Research Reports Made EasyThis informative writing and informational text unit is more than just templates, it includes everything you need for researching, drafting, and publishing rigorous animal reports. With the Common Core’s emphasis on informational text and informative writing, this unit will walk you and your young writers through the entire researching and writing process. Check out the preview to see everything included in this unit.Immersion•Text Features Help Me Understand•Ho
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2nd - 5th
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