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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
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
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
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
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
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. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 92 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 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 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
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
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
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
Build summarizing skills by starting with story elements. An anchor chart, organizer, guided passage, and activities help students identify the parts of a story.
Make figurative language click. A reference sheet, activities, and a graphic organizer help students identify and use eight types of figurative language.
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
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 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
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
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
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
This bundle includes everything you need to plan, analyze, and grow student writing in narrative and expository or informational genres!
Zip File | 300+ pages
A student-friendly booklet for figurative language. This minibook defines and models eight types of figurative language and includes an answer key.
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
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
