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Writing-expository Common Core RI.5.2 handouts
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
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Writing Summaries - Posters & Sentence Starters for Fiction & Nonfiction Texts
Give your students support in writing summaries of fiction and non-fiction texts! This resource will help English Language Learners and other students write good summaries of both fiction and non-fiction texts by offering organizational frameworks and sentence starters for fiction and non-fiction summaries. The organizational frameworks show what kind of information should be included when writing a summary. The sentence starters offer a variety of writing prompts that students can use to wri
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Grades:
5th - 8th
HOW TO RESEARCH Lesson Keywords Skim & Scan Effective Research Skills NO PREP
Introduce or review how to efficiently research using keywords with this no-prep, 24-page/slide How to Research Using Keywords and Skim and Scan Writing Mini-Lesson. The easy-to-follow Guided Notes process will help students develop two research skills to find the information they need: 1. what keywords to search, and 2. how to “skim and scan”. A PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Guided Practice, and a link to online scavenger hunt practice are included making this a scaffolded approach that uses the “I
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Informative/Explanatory Writing for Common Core
This packet is designed to guide students through reading/analyzing non-fiction text and creating informative/explanatory writing pieces.This packet includes the following: Characteristics of Informative/Explanatory Texts (1 page)Note-Taking for Informational Text (Before, During, and After Reading - 3 pages)Reviewing an Informative/Explanatory Text (2 pages)Writing an Informative/Explanatory Text Graphic Organizers (2 pages)Informative/Explanatory Text Peer Review Rubric (1 page)Informative/Exp
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Summarizing Non-Fiction (for informational writing/teaching main idea/details)
Teach topic/main idea/details AND summarizing all at once. Here, students will be sure to write perfect summaries with this easy-to-use note-taking guide and paragraph frame.
Students (or teachers) simply CHOOSE a non-fiction text, read it, analyze/note the main idea and details, and use the sentence starters within the paragraph frame to begin writing perfectly paragraphed summaries. Designed for multiple uses, multi-use. See my Facebook page, Reading Response Creations, for tips for use!!
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Informational Text Graphic Organizer
This is an excellent graphic organizer for any informational text! Students can fill this out while reading to organize their thoughts in preparation for writing an informational summary. The form is self-explanatory and easy for students to understand, including designated sections for: topic, key details, vocabulary terms/ definitions, and an important quote. This is a graphic organizer that can be used every time you read informational texts in the classroom and could be easily adapted to oth
Grades:
4th - 6th
Monthly Current Event Assignment Aligned with CCS (Differentiated)
This is a monthly current event assignment that can be used for homework in grades 3 through 5. There are 2 different instruction pages (with a list of sources for current event articles) and 2 different current event response organizers for easy differentiation.
Students are given the assignment of finding current event articles to bring in to the class to share. One assignment is for those who need to find one current event article to share; the other assignment is for those who need to fin
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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