Activities for Suffixes -ful and -less
$3.00This suffix activity pack provides kids with practice working with the suffixes -ful and -less.
PDF | 25 pages
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This suffix activity pack provides kids with practice working with the suffixes -ful and -less.
PDF | 25 pages

Including different types of details in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great details, understand different types of details, revise writing to improve the details, and try out different types of details in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!
PDF | 45 pages

This is a fun, crafty way to get kids writing during back to school! With this creative writing activity, kids describe themselves by writing about what kind of crayon, animal, holiday, or snack they would be!


This is an easy way to get your kids writing during the first week of school! These five back to school writing prompts include a differentiated page for each one, to help kids who need sentence starters and more structure!

Students follow the research process (asking questions, gathering research) and choose from five different biography projects to represent their learning! Diary entries, newspaper articles, mini-people books, making a map, and writing a play are included!
PDF | 44 pages

Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on using capitalizing proper nouns including people, places, days of the week, months of the year, etc. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 17 pages

To have a little fun with your students and make learning flexible and self-directed, use these Challenge BINGO boards! Choose one of the pre-created boards, or use one of the editable boards to build your own.
Zip File | 28 pages

Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on using commas in a series. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 18 pages

Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on contractions. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 17 pages

Help your students edit their writing with these printables and activities! Editing for spelling, capitalization, grammar, is tricky to teach but these editable tools help students edit their own writing!
This resource is a zip file that includes two pdfs. To edit the editable files, you will need Adobe.


This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in expository or informational writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 80 strategy lesson cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.
ZIP File | 200 pages

Do your students fix their spelling on a word or two and call it revision? These expository revision guides can help students learn to evaluate their writing with a critical eye and make revisions that help the reader understand their message.
PDF | 20 pages

Need simple definitions for every vocabulary word from the fifth grade ELAR TEKS? This document includes all the nouns and verbs from the reading and writing TEKS! Each of the 364 words includes the word (or phrase) and a student-friendly definition. Perfect for lesson planning!

Need simple definitions for every vocabulary word from the fourth grade ELAR TEKS? This document includes all the nouns and verbs from the reading and writing TEKS! Each of the 376 words includes the word (or phrase) and a student-friendly definition. Perfect for lesson planning!

This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 95 pages

Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 92 pages

Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures
PDF | 93 pages

This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 94 pages

Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great beginnings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of beginnings, revise writing to improve the beginnings, and try out good beginnings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 33 pages

Good conclusions in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great conclusions and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of conclusions, revise writing to improve the conclusions, and try out good conclusions in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!
PDF | 30 pages
Teaching Duration: 2 weeks

Your writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with great endings and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of endings, revise writing to improve the endings, and try out good endings in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 33 pages

Good introductions in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great introductions and discuss what makes them great, understand different types of introductions, revise writing to improve the intros, and try out good introductions in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!
PDF | 32 pages

This series of eight minilessons can help you teach writing if you’re unsure of where to start! It includes video lessons and assignments for teaching narrative beginnings. It’s everything you need, from start to finish, to teach eight days of writing to your fourth and fifth graders! Just assign each day to your students in Google Classroom and you’re set! You must have signed up for G-Suite and have a Google account to use this resource.
Zip Files | 30 pages