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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
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
Summarizing story elements requires students to identify the important parts of a story. This product is designed to support students in summarizing story elements. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 16 pages
Are your kids facing the Texas RLA Writing test? Have a little fun and prepare for your test with this fun, hands on writing camp! These twelve stations activities meet all of the tested standards for the big test and include everything you need to prepare for a writing camp including the Extended Constructed Response and Revision & Editing sections!
PDF | 98 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 the sound /shun/ at the end, including words that end in sion, tion, and cian. Students analyze a sentence, learn new grammar skills, and revise and create new complex sentences.
PDF | 17 pages
A fun and easy way to add seasonal flair to student writing! Black and white for easy printing.
PDF | 34 pages
This fun Valentine’s Day pack of word work centers for 2nd and 3rd graders includes sorting activities, recording sheets, and answer keys for three different centers! Students get the practice they need in rhyming words, sorting into syllables, and sorting by part of speech.
PDF | 33 pages
Want your kids to learn to write authentically? Teach writing using the writer’s workshop framework included in this resource: follow the writing process and learn from mentor authors! Printable and editable resources are included to help you prepare, plan, organize, and assess!
Zip File | 200 pages
Build an interactive writing station full of materials to inspire students in their writing! Ideas for writing topics, fun pictures to spark ideas, transitional phrases, sensory details, and tools for writing personal narratives!
PDF | 42 pages
Printable, buildable dice to help kids get started writing creative stories! Each die has six different starters; one on each side. Students roll the dice and write using the sentence starter on the side of the dice that faces up. Easy to start writing station!
PDF | 24 pages
This writing genre characteristics sort can help students distinguish between the elements of narrative writing and expository writing. I have used this sort in teacher trainings as well in order to help teachers differentiate between these genres as well.
PDF | 3 pages
This bundle includes everything you need to plan, analyze, and grow student writing in narrative and expository or informational genres!
Zip File | 300+ pages
This poster set introduces the steps in the writing process and provides a brief, kid-friendly statement to describe each one. Steps included are prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, editing, conferencing, publishing, and sharing.
PDF | 12 pages
This poster set includes a poster for each step in the writing process along with a brief and kid-friendly statement to explain what the purpose of that step is. The posters included are.
PDF | 13 pages
Hands on, meaningful activities help your students zoom in on small moment. Students will learn to add detail and development to write zoomed-in pieces! In this unit, students will read books with zoomed-in moments and discuss what the other did to zoom in, brainstorm small moments to write about, identify the different types of details writers add to their writing, and try out these strategies to explode a moment in her own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 41 pages