4th & 5th Grade Writing Unit Bundle - Personal Narrative, Fiction, and Poetry

This writing unit bundle has 15 weeks of writer's workshop lesson plans. The units in this bundle cover poetry, personal narrative, and fiction writing. Students will have ample opportunities to learn and use the writing process. No need to spend time cutting and pasting, just give the students time to write.

Fiction Narrative Writing:

• 5 + Weeks of writing lessons covering important skills (Creating a Character, Developing a Setting and Plot, When to Conference, Conferencing Suggestions, Editing and Revising)
• A Student Handbook with all materials needed for the unit.
• Wall Display of all writing guides, essential questions, and the writing process.
• Editor's Checklist
• A Unit Study Guide and Unit Test
• Publishing Suggestions
• Suggested Published Books to Use for Lesson Topics
• Options for Struggling Writers
• Exemplars
• 10 Topic Fiction Writing Journal
• Assessments with Rubrics and Answer Keys
• Language Mini Lessons cover:

* Irregular Verbs

* Writing Great Beginnings and Endings

* Compound Sentences

* Using Concrete Words and Sensory Details

* Using Quotation Marks

* Transitional Words and Phrases

* Figurative Language

Personal Narrative Writing:

• 3 weeks of detailed lesson plans
• Tips are provided throughout the unit on conferencing, differentiation, assisting ESOL, EIP, and struggling writers, preparing for observations, and ways to overcome Writer's Workshop challenges
• Handouts for all lessons
• PowerPoint to guide students through the workshop Suggested Published Personal Narrative List
• Writing Guides for planning, organizing, drafting, and publishing
• Personal Narrative Writing Examples
• Personal Narrative Journal with 10 prompts
• Writing Process Cards
• Essential Questions, and I Can Statement Posters
• Student Handbook with all handouts and guides

Personal Narrative Writing Lessons

• Finding a Topic
• Adding Details
• Planning a Topic
• Organizing Writing
• Using a Rubric
• When and how to Conference
• Editing and Revising
• Publishing

Personal Narrative Grammar Skills Covered

• Parts of Speech
• Modal Auxiliaries
• Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• Conjunctions
• Synonyms/Antonyms
• Verb Tenses
• Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Capitalization Rules
• Additional review lessons on 2nd and 3rd grade skills

Poetry:

• 31+days of lesson plan on fourth and fifth grade reading and writing standards

• Lessons Included:, Beat, Rhyme, Rhythm, Lines, Stanzas, Verse, Meter, Implicit and Explicit Information, Figurative Language Reading for Main Idea, Author’s Purpose, Mood, Theme, Comparing and Contrasting poems and author’s point of view, Using Illustrations to find meaning. Writing -Diamantes, Acrostic Poems, Bio Poems, Free Verse Poems, Cinquains, Haiku, Shape, Free Verse, and Research Poems, Alliteration.

• 18 Original poems

• 72 page Student Handbook with the materials need the lessons. (Note quiz, test, and choice board pages are not included in the Student Handbook)

• Assessments (Quiz, Rubrics, Choice Board, Unit Test, and Checklists)

• Portfolio Publishing pages and Rubric

• Poetry Family Celebration Guidelines

• Appendix with Poems, Additional Lessons (Verse, Meter, Explicit Information, Implicit Information, Point of View, Mood, Theme, Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Hyperbole, and Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt) on other grade level standards, poetry close read for any poem, and bookmarks.

• Vocabulary Cards and Anchor Charts

• Essential Question and I Can Statement Posters

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Want to learn more about each unit, click the links or download the preview.

Personal Narrative Unit - Grades 4 and 5.

Poetry Unit - Grades 4 and 5.

Fiction Narrative Unit - Grades 4 and 5.

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