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Writing-expository Common Core L.4.1 resources
Writing Interactive Notebooks: Writing Activities {Interactive Writing Notebook}
Writing Interactive Notebooks ~ Sentences and Paragraphs for Common Core 3-8. This Writing Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT Best Sellers for Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text.Get the *original* Interactive Writing Notebooks - Over 30,000 copies sold!This resource is now part of an interactive notebook bundle. Find the bundle here.***********************************************Each of the 26 lessons includes a photo of the finished product, teacher’s notes, teacher’s
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
STAAR Test Prep - Revising and Editing Grammar Review Game for Writing Test Prep
Are you in need of a fun STAAR test prep? This grammar review game will prepare your kids for the new reading STAAR test. This is a writing test prep review game for revising and editing. It was made to review the 3rd & 4th grade Reading STAAR test but can be used with any state assessment. This game is a "Jeopardy" style game made for Powerpoint.Categories Include:revisingeditingsentencesspellingteacher's choice.The template is editable if you need to change the questions. ***Updated for ne
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3rd - 4th
WRITING SKILLS Practice & Assess: Grades 4-5 No Prep Printables
**Grades 4-5 Version** Level AThe topics/skills included in this huge worksheet packet are the same as in my Interactive Writing Notebook. Scroll down for a list of lessons and topics.Purchase the differentiation bundle here.For each of the 26 lessons, there is a 20-item practice followed by a 20-item assessment. The items on the assessment are similar in content and in format to the items on the practice so that your students are prepared for each assessment. Please note that some lessons are n
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Practice & Assess WRITING SKILLS: Differentiation BUNDLE!
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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4th Grade Daily Language Review for March New ELA TEKS
With the implementation of the new ELA TEKS this year, having a daily spiral review in your toolbox that reviews all the TEKS for language, spelling, and writing is a MUST!! DAILY WRITING READY© is a standards-based program that follows a research-based model of continuous, systematic instruction, building from simple to complex to help students learn and retain skills. In this 4th grade unit for March, students practice language & writing skills in 10-15 minute daily lessons. Skills taught
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4th
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Also included in: Bundle ~ 4th Grade DAILY WRITING READY ~ Full Year Daily Language Review
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
COMPOSITION BUNDLE ~ WRITING READY 4th Grade Task Cards- 8 Basic & Advanced Sets
SAVE 25% WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS EXPOSITORY COMPOSITION BUNDLE (includes all of our Basic & Advanced WRITING READY Expository Composition 4th Grade Task Cards sets – 8 total sets)!*****************************************************************************Customers who used our 4th grade STAAR WARS Writing Task Cards loved them, and many emailed us asking us for more. So we listened! But instead of creating more STAAR review sets, we thought it would be even better to have task card sets t
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4th
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Animal Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grade 4 (CCSS)
"This is honestly the best writing resource I have bought. I think it is very thorough and helps all of my students be successful. Thank you and I will definitely be buying more writing resources from you in the future!"Mammals! Amphibians! Reptiles! Birds! Fish! Oh my! Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on just one and help students make it better and better through multiple drafts that add new skills each time. This method makes research writing easier to manage for
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4th
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4th Grade Writing - TEST PREP SURVIVAL MEGA BUNDLE - STAAR / TEKS Aligned
All your favorite resources in one MEGA BUNDLE! Just what you need to make it through the big test with ease and confidence! Save 30% when purchasing this mega bundle compared to buying individual sets! Included:1) 34 Weeks of Daily Spiral Review for 4th Grade2) Differentiated Skill-Based 4th Grade Writing Task Cards for Revising & Editing {18 sets}3) Assessment Review Task Cards for 4th Grade {6 sets} These resources help you address all the 4th grade writing skills below needed to prepare
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4th
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How-To Essay: Multi-Draft Explanatory Writing for Grade 4 (CCSS)
"I love how easy this makes a lesson on writing!!!!! Awesome purchase!"
Do you know how to use a Rainbow Loom or build a house on Minecraft? Your students do! Let your fourth-graders share their expertise with How-To Writing!
Instead of doing several Explanatory Essays, I like to focus on just one and help students make it better and better through multiple drafts that add new skills each time. This method makes writing informative texts easier to manage for you and your students.
These
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4th
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a favorite novel study for students. Use this Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe fantasy literature unit to cover a wide range of reading skills. My favorite activity in this product is the Narnia map activity. Students use the text to identify 9 key locations. Based on textual evidence, the students map Narnia and the route Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan followed while in Narnia. Students stain a piece of ledger sized paper with tea bags the
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4th - 6th
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Compare and contrast essay: Informational writing PDF & Distance Learning
Students love to write stories. But how do you get them as excited about writing INFORMATIONAL essays that tend to be very structured?! This unit will help you instill the passion for non-fiction writing in your students! More specifically, this unit is designed to teach COMPARE AND CONTRAST essays with an interesting INTRODUCTION, solid CONCLUSION, and sophisticated LINKING WORDS commonly used in comparative writing.The unit consists of:1. very detailed lesson plans that show you how to guide s
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3rd - 6th
Animal Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing using Google Docs {CCSS}
"This is such a great product! I'm ready to rock it with my class!"“My students are STILL talking about their research reports almost 4 months later. Thank you for such an amazing and easy to use resource!”Mammals! Amphibians! Reptiles! Birds! Fish! Oh my! Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on just one and help students make it better and better through multiple drafts that add new skills each time. This method makes research writing easier to manage for you and your
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: CCSS Writing for the Year BUNDLE: Four Digital Writing Resources (GAFE)
Animal Research Bundle: From Anchor Charts to Assessments!
Animal Research BundleThis Animal Research Project Bundle contains all you need to teach students how to complete a self-directed research project ending in a Natural History Museum with a unique animal cube project. Teaches non-fiction text features, note taking, paragraph writing skills and adding details. Includes 5 weeks of ready to go lesson plans. Students will choose one animal from a selection of grade-appropriate non-fiction and focus on their animal's adaptations, habitat, predator
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3rd - 5th
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Biography Research: Multi-Draft Informative Writing using Google Docs {CCSS}
"I just love resources to ad to my Google Drive assignments. This was to the point and easy for students to follow. Thank you much!!!!"My Best-Selling Biography Resource is now available in Digital Format!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 mak
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3rd - 5th
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Bringing History to Life Complete Unit
Slides and materials for every session in the unit! Are you teaching students nonfiction, informational, or expository writing? This BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE COMPLETE UNIT product pairs seamlessly with Lucy Calkins' 4th Grade Information Writing Unit 3: Bringing History to Life and requires no prep for teachers teaching the Units of Study by Lucy Calkins.It includes 23 ready-to-go mini-lessons including teaching points, turn & talks, modeling, active engagement, shares, and information about
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4th
WRITING FOUNDATIONS: Organization, Elaboration and Conventions
This is a foundational writing unit. ALL MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED. JUST PRINT AND GO! The focus is on teaching skills that students will need to write basic paragraphs. The prompts are designed to engage and interest students.
Included are mini-lessons on:
indenting paragraphs
focusing on one main idea in a paragraph
checking spelling
using capitals with proper nouns
adding elaboration
using anecdotes
pre-writing
Students are given two specific prompts for every mini-lesson designed to pra
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: BUNDLE: Year-Long Common Core Writing Prompts (Grades 4-6)
Oh, Christmas Tree! - An Expository Writing Activity
This week long holiday writing activity takes students through the complete writing process to compose an expository paragraph about which type of Christmas tree they prefer. File includes step-by-step instructions, editing and revision checklist, and grading rubric.
Oh, Christmas Tree! - An Expository Writing Activity by Confessions of a Teaching Junkie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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3rd - 5th
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The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore Novel Study Unit
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups. The second PDF has all student pages with teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples.The Bread Winner is a high interest novel study for upper elementary students. After gathering background information about the Depression, students identi
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Depression Era Novel Study Literature Bundle
Non Fiction Business Reading and Research Essay
Through a variety of non-fiction reading passages, students learn about successful American companies and their founders. Students practice outlining, notetaking, and research strategies. The students select a personal topic to research for a culminating activity. The research process is broken into manageable steps to introduce the research procedure in an organized fashion. All of my students successfully complete the research phase of this unit with little (or no) parent assistance. I have us
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Financial Literacy and Business Novel Study Literature Bundle
"My Life in Dog Years" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum: 4th grade ELA: Module 2- Unit 2: Tracking Relationships (Lessons 19 - 28). These lessons correlate with the book "My Life in Dog Years" by Gary Paulsen. These slides also include the writing lesson for comparing and contrasting dogs in Gary Paulsen's life. This resource is completely editable through Google Slides. This resource includes modeling slides, timers when appropriate, discussion questions, "I can" statements, success criteria, rubrics, checklists, storybook photo
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4th
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Also included in: "Grade 4 ELA Module 2 BUNDLE" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Ordering Adjectives - Grammar In Context Writing Lessons for 4th / 5th Grade
Teach 4th- and 5th-grade students how to write with adjectives and order adjectives, not just memorize the grammar rules about them!With Jivey's Write On! Grammar Integration Resources, you'll be teaching grammar in context during your writing time through exploration, revision, and application. This print-and-teach resource, aligned with best-practices, provides lessons and activities on the use of adjectives, with a focus on ordering adjectives, and should be incorporated into your writing les
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Grammar In Context Writing Lessons GROWING BUNDLE for 4th / 5th Grade
Adverbs - Grammar In Context Writing Lessons for 4th / 5th Grade
Teach 4th- and 5th-grade students how to write with adverbs, not just memorize the grammar rules about them!With Jivey's Write On! Grammar Integration Resources, you'll be teaching grammar in context during your writing time through exploration, revision, and application. This print-and-teach resource, aligned with best-practices, provides lessons and activities on the use of adverbs and should be incorporated into your writing lessons. The lessons and activities in this resource are designed in
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Grammar In Context Writing Lessons GROWING BUNDLE for 4th / 5th Grade
Making Comparisons - Grammar In Context Writing Lessons for 4th / 5th Grade
Teach 4th- and 5th-grade students how to write with comparatives and superlatives to make comparisons, not just memorize the grammar rules about them!With Jivey's Write On! Grammar Integration Resources, you'll be teaching grammar in context during your writing time through exploration, revision, and application. This print-and-teach resource, aligned with best-practices, provides lessons and activities on the use of comparatives and superlatives and should be incorporated into your writing less
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Grammar In Context Writing Lessons GROWING BUNDLE for 4th / 5th Grade
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