1,386 results
3rd grade writing-expository lesson pdfs
Paragraph Writing: Step-By-Step Lessons, Interactive Notebook Activities, & More
Teaching students to write paragraphs can be overwhelming!That's exactly why I've created this simple, and easy to use STEP-BY-STEP PARAGRAPH WRITING UNIT that has everything you need to teach your students to write WELL ORGANIZED & STRONG PARAGRAPHS! With this kid-friendly, engaging, & interactive unit your students will be writing 5 sentence paragraphs in no time!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:* 3 writing posters (full-page size)* 3 writing posters (half page size- perfect for interactive noteb
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Show, Don't Tell: Descriptive Writing Practice Worksheet
Students learning to fine-tune their narrative writing will benefit from this "Show, don't tell" exercise. This sheet is a perfect complement to a "Show, don't tell" introductory lesson, as it provides a ready-to-use tool for students to practice their descriptive writing skills.
On this sheet, students are asked to turn boring "telling" sentences into descriptive, sensory scenes. An example is provided on the student sheet to guide student work, and a complete answer key is provided with samp
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Types:
Weekly Writing Journal Prompts Digital and Printable for Upper Elementary
Weekly Journal Writing Prompts for 3rd to 5th graders. Each prompt comes with a special word bank and tips for checking the writing prompts. 50 total writing prompts: 42 are general prompts for any time of the year and 8 are seasonal, holiday prompts. The unit also comes with getting started writing mini-lessons, writing rubric options and more.The set now includes a digital version in both Google Slides for Google Classroom and Powerpoint. This resource was designed for a once a week journal wr
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Opening and Closing Statements
Do your students need help generating good opening and closing statements? How many of your students leave one or both out? Well not anymore! This pack will give your students a few ideas to get them started. You'll be amazed how much better your students' opening and closing statements improve! This product includes:2 posters with a list of variety of ways to open and close writing. These opening and closing statements can be used for any genre of writing. They are both kid friendly and easy
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Types:
Valentine's Day Writing & Craftivity Project
Are you looking for a February writing project that will truly engage your students? This writing project may be just what you are looking for! This is one of those units that I truly look forward to teaching each year, and it is my BEST SELLING writing unit!This unit begins with the students closing their eyes and imagining that they have walked into a candy shop, looking for a Valentine's Day gift for a loved one. The sales lady shows them a special box of MAGIC Valentine's chocolates. When t
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
Informative Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers - Paragraph of the Week PRINT
Paragraph of the Week Prompts for Informative Writing - This ready-to-use resource includes 10 informative paragraph writing prompts. Use them in a paragraph of the week writing center or for weekly writing homework. Weekly paragraph writing allows your students to practice writing well-organized informative paragraphs on a regular basis, and make them better writers. Students will love the fun and engaging paragraph writing prompts, and you'll love that they are getting meaningful writing pract
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
PARAPHRASING Practice Task Cards
Are you looking for a paraphrasing activity to guide your students into restating it in their own words? Do your students tend to copy sentences straight out of a book? These simple yet engaging paraphrasing task cards will grab your students' attention with their high-interest topics and unusual facts. This resource is perfect for mini-lessons, small group instruction, or adding it to a writing center.What's Included:32 High-Interest Paraphrasing CardsParaphrasing How To Poster2 Student Answer
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Types:
Informational Writing Unit 3rd Grade Graphic Organizer Anchor Charts Research
Are you looking to get your students excited about informative writing? This Informational Writing unit is perfect for you! It comes with kid-friendly rubrics, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and even centers! With the included mentor text and lesson plans, you will be able to effortlessly guide your students through writing an informational report!Your students will love writing an informational report with this unit! The lessons are easy to follow and the activities are engaging. Plus, t
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
Types:
Also included in: 3rd Grade Writing Units BUNDLE Personal Fictional Opinion Informational
Writing - Fairy Tales - Just Write! The Bundle
Writing lessons with a consistent plan help encourage young writer’s to WANT to write. Simple, cohesive plans lead to clear and accurate writing – which in turn leads to confidence.Using well known fairy tales as a starting place, Just Write! will help you guide your students in informational, opinion and narrative writing lessons. Check out the individual Just Write! packs for a preview of what is included in each of the 9 products included in this pack. The Just Write! Bundle includes:*9 detai
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 3rd-5th
Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Common Core Writing Activities Bundle #1 August - December
This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach"
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
Biography Writing Unit 3rd Grade Graphic Organizer Anchor Charts Research
This third grade Biography Writing Unit is just what you need to teach your students how to write a biography! This unit has kid-friendly rubrics, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and even centers! With the included mentor text and lesson plans, you will be able to effortlessly guide your students through writing a biography report!When it comes to writing, there is so much we want (and need) to teach our students. However, we cannot focus on all of it all at once or we will cause our students
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
Types:
Also included in: 3rd Grade Writing Units BUNDLE Personal Fictional Opinion Informational
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Key Inc.
This 15 page movie guide with activity handouts is for the film "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)". ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.PART 1 – Comprehension questions. I have made 3 sets of questions for differentiation. Answers are included.• 40 questions in chronological order. Each page represents 45 minutes of the film. • 30 questions in chronological order. I have just removed 10 ques
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
Photosynthesis Craftivity {CLOSE Read & Writing}
Looking for a fun way to teach Photosynthesis? Look no further! Students will have a great time learning about this complicated process by reading about it {CLOSE READ}, making a visual representation {Craftivity} of it and explaining it in writing {Photosynthesis Recipe}
Included in this set:
9 Vocabulary Cards
A Photosynthesis CLOSE read
A Photosynthesis Craftivity- with detailed
A Recipe for Photosynthesis Writing- with a word bank to help them write their recipe
Bulletin Board idea
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Informative/Explanatory Writing CCSS Grades 3-5
This unit includes everything you need to cover the CCSS standards for informative writing.
There are three different writing activities. One is an animal informative paragraph writing activity and the other is a planet informative article writing activity. The last provides your students with an opportunity to choose their own topic to research and write about. Please take a look at the preview for everything that is included in this unit.
You will get graphic organizers, anchor charts, id
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Compare & Contrast 3 Paragraph Essay Frame (Learning Initial Format)
This frame was developed, to help students learn a basic compare/ contrast 3 paragraph essay format.
After the initial teacher modeling (which is strongly suggested), the frame will allow most students to successfully write about the similarities and differences between two reading passages. Students fill in the requested information and select the appropriate words from the word boxes, to write and create complete sentences.
The frame can be used with multiple reading genres. Once stude
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Writing Units BUNDLE for Grades 2-4
Looking for writing units that will save you TONS of time lesson planning, prepping, and teaching? Then this bundle is for YOU! This easy-to-implement Writing Bundle includes 3 units (narrative, informative, and opinion) with the following:standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive notebooks)teacher examplesmentor text suggestionspublishing papers...and more!Guide
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
Common Core Writing Activities Bundle #2 January - July
This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach"
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
Feature Article Writing Unit
Feature article writing is a nonfiction writing about a topic that the kids are an "expert" on. It will be similar to a newspaper or magazine article. This will require no research of the students, but will come from their prior knowledge. Students LOVE this writing because they are usually passionate about the topic that they choose.
I like to use Time for Kids as our mentor text!
Students will practice nonfiction writing features as they write, such as headings, pictures, captions, etc.
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Units BUNDLED-YEAR LONG!
My Dream House: Descriptive Writing Project (five-paragraph description)
This is probably my students' favorite writing project of the year! Students design, draw, and write about the house of their dreams!
The packet contains:
-Brainstorming Paper
-Planning Papers (1 for topic and conclusion paragraph, one for body paragraphs- I print these two papers back-to-back)
-Publishing Papers
This project also contains:
- complete directions and suggestions for classroom implementation
- a sample planner that has been completed
- a sample 5-paragraph description using th
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
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
Types:
CCSS:
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Movie Guide + Activities
This 10 page movie guide with handouts is for the film "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)". ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.PART 1 – Comprehension questions. I have made two separate sets for differentiation. Includes an answer key.• 20 questions in chronological order, answering in sentences.• 20 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers.The multiple choice questions have also worked well with my ESL student
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Types:
Also included in: Custom Movie Guide Bundle #2 for Sandy X | 10 x Movie Guides (30% OFF)
Back To School Writing & Community Building Activity - Interview A Classmate
Your students will each be interviewing a classmate using a set of provided questions, and writing a short informational piece about their partner using their interview answers. This activity is a perfect class building activity for the first weeks back to school, and can serve as a baseline informational writing assessment. These interviews are a great piece to hang on the wall for Back To School Night. Parents love to see the adorable photos, and usually get a kick out of a few of the intervie
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 1,386 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands