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Free not grade specific writing-expository resources
Free First Day of School Ice Breaker: Six-word Memoir
*** More than 14,000 downloads! Your students should be communicating, sharing, evaluating and writing from day one! This engaging pair and share activity will have them doing just that! Can you encapsulate your life into six words? Challenge your students. You will be impressed with the results. The packet includes teaching notes, a student handout, many examples, guiding questions and a link for your students to publish their six-word memoirs online!Here is a link to some free frames that woul
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Instagram Post Template - FREEBIE
This FREE Instagram Post Template is so much fun! It is perfect for incorporating into any units in which you discuss biographies, such as Black History Month. Upper elementary students love this Instagram Post Template activity and are always very engaged with this lesson!Students will act as the person that they are studying and use the Instagram Post Template to create a post as if it was written by that person! It is a blast! *Please share your ideas with me! Tag my IG when you use them so I
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Blank 4-Square Graphic Organizer
I love using a 4-square to help my students in special education organize their writing but hate that folding the paper correctly can be a struggle for them. Instead of going around and folding everyone's papers, I created this simple organizer that I always have ready to go in my classroom for any writing activity!
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Graphic Organizers for Nonfiction Text & Research Projects: FREE
This set of graphic organizers can be used in reading, writing, and science. Research, inquiry, and comprehension of nonfiction text takes practice. Teachers can model these important skills using the book How to Survive as a Shark by Kristen Foote. The skills can be applied by students using the graphic organizers included in this freebie.Printable worksheets include...-Note taking guide for facts and new vocabulary-Questions before reading, during reading, after reading-KWL Chart-Can, Have, Ar
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8 sentence paragraph outline--FREE
I use this outline to help my students write a well developed paragraph. It is a table/chart that provides a box for each part of a paragraph. I have found that this really helps students understand the parts and structure of a paragraph.
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Web Graphic Organizer with Lines
A graphic organizer to help students plan their writing about a topic before writing a paragraph. My students often need the additional visual support of having lines to write on on the boxes, and this has helped them keep the form more neat and organized. When I'm first teaching a student to use this form, something I often do is show a picture of something to write about, use this form to make notes about the topic and some details/observations about the picture, and then write a paragraph bas
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Work on Writing Menu for Creating Personal Narratives
No more will your students have to waste time trying to think of something to write about. This menu was created with graphics from Scrappin Doodles and gives students a choice of topics.
When my class is engaged doing Daily Five, this menu is displayed and offers students who are at the Work on Writing station (and may be at a loss of words) exciting topics of interest in hopes of utilizing every minute while they are at the Work on Writing station.
This menu could also be reproduced f
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End of the Year Memory Book Autograph Pages - ANY Grade FREEBIE
End of the year Memory Book pages for autographs. Appropriate for any grade.
The complete product is available here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-Year-Memory-Book-ANY-Grade-3821042
Description: Students will love creating this memory book about all of the wonderful things they learned and experienced in your classroom!
Start out by reviewing one or two pages at a time and brainstorming some of the things your class has learned or good memories they have from ear
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Square Writing Templates (for Target Dollar Spot books)
These templates work perfectly with the mini books from the Target Dollar Spot!
This download includes lined templates to help your students create amazing stories in the square mini books from Target. Students can choose from regular lines or handwriting lines.
Cover pages are also included. The opportunities are endless!
Love using the mini books from Target? You may also like:
Animal Research & Informational Writing Templates
State Research & Informational Writing Templates
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Also included in: Mini Book Writing Template BUNDLE (Target Dollar Spot books)
Writing Notebook Cover & Tabs FREEBIE
Getting a writing notebook started in your classroom? This FREEBIE is for you! You will receive a cover and dividers to get your notebook ready to go! This FREEBIE comes with: Writing Notebook Cover (color and B/W)Tabs for:Workshop, Narrative, Informational, Opinion, and PoetryThis download is copyright of Teaching Teenies and your download is for your classroom use only, please have other friends/teachers download their own for their classroom!
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CER poster set
The common core requires a lot of evidence based writing. CER: claim, evidence, reasoning, is helpful for getting students to think through their positions and more fully express their thoughts. These posters make great references for students using CER in the classroom. There are two sets of posters here here: a single page poster with CER and the questions to help the students think as well as each letter on it's own page. The top question is the one I use most often in ELA, the bottom in mat
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Claim and Evidence Writing: The Cookie Case
Writing a claim and evidence can be hard for students when they have to absorb a bunch of background information just to understand the topic. Instead, have them solve a mystery! Your students will be able to practice their claim and evidence writing by reading the mystery of The Cookie Case where they have to decide which of Jack's three siblings took his cookies. The text provides all the evidence they need to write a claim and have the evidence to back it up. Product includes;-The Cookie Case
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A Plump and Perky Turkey Book Companion Activities
How-To Catch a Turkey Writing ActivitiesAmazing Educators, Do your students need an introduction to or extra practice with writing how-to/informational writing? Then this product is just what they need! Use “A Plump and Perky Turkey” by Teresa Bateman with the accompanied writing pages to practice creating a lead, sequencing, using signal words and writing a conclusion. Enrichment: • Use as a writing extension and/or introduction to how-to/informational writing. Whole/Small Group: • Use during
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End of the Year Letter Writing Activity
This product contains a teacher guide and a template for the student to write a letter to a future student in your classroom. This is a fun activity to fill time during the end of the year slump. These letters also translate into back to school fun for the new students who get to read the letters on the first day of school!
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Informational (Informative/Expository) Writing Anchor Charts (Hamburger)
You can choose to print these anchor charts, project and trace onto chart paper, or make smaller versions for students to glue into their interactive notebooks!Make sure to check out my other anchor charts for different modes of writing! :) Reviews greatly appreciated! <3
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New Year-New Goal FREEBIE
Enjoy this one-pager freebie! Perfect welcome back activity to do with your students when they return in 2024!
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Reading Extended Response Graphic Organizer/CER/Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
This is a graphic organizer created to help students build their reading extended response/CER. Includes restating the question as the topic sentence, finding text evidence, their interpretations and a concluding sentence.
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The Writing Process Anchor Chart
Use this anchor chart to help teach the writing process to your students. Enjoy!
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Writing Our World™ Basic Units FREE SAMPLE
The Writing Our World™ Basic Units include:• Activities aligned with the scope and sequence of The Writing Revolution®*• 15-minute mini-lessons with teacher directions• Student materials to accompany each lesson• Unit-aligned rubrics and directions for progress monitoring through writing sample collection• Recommendations for incorporating tier-two vocabulary instruction • Easily adapted to match the content area curriculum your students are currently studyingThe Writing Our World Basic Units
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Hurricane Preparedness Writing Prompt
Note: For an editable version of this, check my "store." (it's also free and can be adapted to fit any emergency)This is a writing activity to help students plan their hurricane emergency kit. This encourages them to use transition words, choose four items, and explain why they would bring those items.
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CUPS, ARMS, or STAR Editing and Revising Strategy Posters Black and White
Students can use the acronym CUPS to remember how to edit their writing. Also, the acronym ARMS or STAR can be used to remember the steps to revise writing. These black and white posters can be printed on colored paper to add helpful reminders to walls or bulletin boards.
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Writing Process Posters
Grab these FREE writing process posters to help remind your students what to do at each stage of the writing process! These writing process posters include:Black and white and color versionNames of each stage on separate posters with descriptions of each stageThese writing process posters can be used for students to track their own progress, and for teachers to easily see which stage each student is working on.Looking for more elementary classroom posters? Check this out! Metric System Classroom
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Story/Activity Sequencing Worksheet Organizer: First/Next/Then/Last
Graphic organizer for event sequencing. Features boxes for first, next, then, last. Can be used for activities, instructions, stories, movies, etc,.
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Book for taking notes, 135 sheets
Use it to take notes or draw. about storytelling :Let children listen to develop listening skills and imagination.• Use it to draw music notes and play word games: Sing songs and play word games to improve speaking and listening skills.• Storytelling activities: Let children tell stories from everyday life to develop storytelling and communication skills.Mathematics• Counting and comparing: Use toys or materials. To teach counting and comparing numbers, drawing and writing them in notes.• Classi
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