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This product includes 19 pages of word building activities: cut apart the letters in each phrase to build! Great for building phonics skills and noticing structures of words. An easy way to integrate a little seasonal holiday fun into your curriculum.
PDF | 19 pages
This jungle safari themed Writer’s Workshop Pack includes over 70 pages of materials for implementing and maintaining Writer’s Workshop your classroom!
PDF | 75 pages
If you’re a literacy coach, these forms are for you!
Have better PLCs with these guides, planning forms, and lesson plan templates for reading and writing, grades 2-5!
This bundle of new TEKS aligned mentor sentence units is a whole year purposeful instruction that 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 specific structures.
Zip File | 360+ pages
This document is an TEKS alignment for my Fourth Grade Mentor Sentences Program for Texas schools. There are four nine weeks in the program. Each nine weeks focuses on important skills and strategies for revision and editing and is aligned to the new 2023 TEKS assessed curriculum for the Texas ELA test!
PDF | 20 pages
This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 72 strategy cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.
Zip File | 160 pages
Your writing lesson plans are done for over three months with this narrative writing minilesson unit bundle! This bundle includes a step-by-step approach in using the gradual release model to teach your young writers about the following strategies in narrative writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
Zip File | 185 pages
This beachy ocean themed Writer’s Workshop Pack includes over 70 pages of materials for implementing and maintaining Writer’s Workshop in your classroom! Features Creative Clips ocean and beach clipart!
Zip File | 75 pages
Each poster in this eleven poster set includes a part of speech, a simple, kid-friendly definition, and an example sentence with the part of speech marked clearly for easy reference.
PDF | 9 pages
Help your students organize and develop their personal narratives with these graphic organizers! Perfect for drafting their writing!
Two versions help you differentiate for students who need extra support and scaffolding.
When your students say, “I don’t have anything to write,” they’re stuck. Get them unstuck with this prewriting resource! Teacher pages and printable handouts help kids brainstorm ideas for writing!
Reading and writing across the curriculum: strategies and activities for content area reading and writing1
This teacher’s guide includes the instructions and printables for 18 different reading & writing strategies. Perfect for integrating reading and writing into math, science, and social studies lessons in grades 3-5!
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids! Fun Christmas themes like gingerbread houses, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph make this an engaging activity for the month of December!
PDF | 18 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 24 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing expository paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 30 pages
This hands-on resource engages students in real conversations about revising and editing narrative paragraphs. In just ten minutes a day, you can introduce and practice editing and revising skills without boring your kids!
PDF | 30 pages
Help your students revise with these revision lesson ideas and printables! Revising is more than changing a word or two. With these activities, students will make revisions to their writing about sentence types, word choice, structure, and more!
Helping kids learn to revise each other’s writing can be so hard. These activities and forms make it easier! Revising partners and groups can learn to revise with these revising role cards and other tools!
Need simple definitions for every vocabulary word from the second grade ELAR TEKS? This document includes all the nouns and verbs from the reading and writing TEKS! Each of the 284 words includes the word (or phrase) and a student-friendly definition. Perfect for lesson planning!
Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with sensory details and discuss what makes them great, understand the different types of sensory language, generate sensory details, revise writing to improve the descriptive language, and try out sensory language in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 42 pages
This resource includes video lessons and assignments for teaching sensory details. It’s everything you need, from start to finish, to teach nine 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 File | 30 pages
Stop planning writing lessons from scratch and get your plans done today! This show, don’t tell unit guides students through noticing language that shows rather than tells, describing different emotions, revising their own writing, and trying their new strategy out in new narrative stories. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step lesson plans!
PDF | 67 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on spelling words with silent letters including wr and kn. Students analyze a sentence, learn new grammar skills, and revise and create new sentences including a compound predicate.
PDF | 17 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on spelling words with suffixes including -ed, -ing, and -y. Students analyze a sentence, learn new grammar skills, and revise and create new sentences including a participle phrase.
PDF | 17 pages