Expository & Informational Bundle – Writing Lessons, Anchor Charts 3rd 4th & 5th

Description

Everything you need to teach informational writing in one bundle. Minilessons, anchor charts, and printables guide 3rd–5th graders through planning and writing strong expository pieces.

Teach your students about informational and expository writing with this Minilessons Bundle packed with text lists, strategies, tips and printables. It features four sets of minilessons covering how to write good introductions and conclusions, organize your writing around main ideas, and add interesting details. Each minilesson unit includes one or more hands-on anchor chart activities, lesson plans for 2-3 weeks, handouts for practicing the skill, revision activities, and more!

⭐ Here’s what’s included in this Expository Writing Minilessons Bundle:

1. Good introductions for expository writing

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!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• Mentor text list for five different types of expository introductions
• A hands-on activity in which students read examples of five different introduction types and identify the writing strategy being used in each
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
• Which is Most Effective? a handout for matching introductions with an expository piece
• 6 Good Introductions posters
• Good introduction notes: complete and ready to write
• Revise It: revise a boring introduction in four ways (sample key included)
• Revise Your Own: a guide to revising your own boring introduction
• Try It: write five different versions of an introduction to a topic of your choice
• Introductions Checklist: a bookmark-sized guide to writing better introductions

2. Good conclusions for expository writing

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!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• Mentor text list for four different types of expository conclusions
• A hands-on activity in which students read examples of five different conclusion types and identify the writing strategy being used in each
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
• Which is Most Effective? a handout for matching conclusions with an expository piece
• 5 Good Conclusions posters
• Good conclusions notes: complete and ready to write
• Revise It: revise a boring conclusion in four ways (sample key included)
• Revise Your Own: a guide to revising your own boring conclusion
• Try It: write four different versions of an conclusion to a topic of your choice
• Conclusions Checklist: a bookmark-sized guide to writing better conclusions

3. Types of Details for Expository Writing:

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!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• 9 days of lesson plans already written, including a learning target/objective for each lesson
• Mentor text list for four different types of expository details
• Sample anchor chart for a mentor text lesson
• A hands-on activity in which students read examples of four different detail types and identify the type being used in each
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning about detail types
• Activity for brainstorming details to describe a topic
• 5 Good Details posters
• Good details notes: complete and ready to write
• Relevant or Irrelevant Details: Students read details and cut to sort them into “relevant details” or “irrelevant details.”
• Revise It: Students revise a paragraph that includes irrelevant and repeated details
• Brainstorm and Write It! Read the main idea and brainstorm different types of details to build a paragraph
• Brainstorm and Write Your Own! Revise a piece of writing to include different types of details
• Try It: write four different versions of an conclusion to a topic of your choice
• Details Checklist: a bookmark-sized guide to writing better details

4. Main Ideas for Expository Writing:

Organizing your expository writing around main ideas is important for informational structure! In this unit, students will read books to think about main ideas, learn a three-step process for creating main ideas, and brainstorm their own for writing an expository piece. Activities are hands-on and authentic!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• Mentor text list for main ideas
• A hands-on activity in which students read main idea statements and determine if they support the central idea or not
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
• Materials for an engaging brainstorming lesson
• Brainstorming Maps
• 4 creating main ideas posters
• Expository structure planning sheet
• Creating main ideas notes: complete and ready to write
• What’s it all about handout: identify the main ideas from a planning map
• Revise It: add in missing main ideas
• Try It: write main ideas about a topic of your choice
• Main Ideas Checklist: a bookmark-sized guide to writing better main ideas

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