Persuasive, Narrative and Descriptive Writing Lessons & Activities BUNDLE

Teaching writing can be fun! This bundle of lessons (and an entire mini-unit) will guide you in great lessons featuring descriptive writing, persuasive writing, and narrative writing. You will also get end-of-year writing prompts to give your students one last chance to show off how much writing progress they've made. You'll get sensory word lists, prompts, rubrics, and so much more.

There are four resources included (along with a fabulous BONUS!) and the individual components can be used over and over and over and over. Fabulous rubrics, loads of prompts (there are 50 descriptive writing prompts alone!), and helpful graphic organizers will be useful to you for far more than just the times you're using the specific resources.

This bundle of four of my popular writing resources includes:

⭐DESCRIPTIVE WRITING MINI-UNIT PLAN

This descriptive writing mini unit is super quick to teach and will improve your students' descriptive writing instantly with descriptive writing prompts, sensory word lists, and more! It's got an engaging descriptive writing lesson plan that will launch your students into fabulous descriptive writing so they show, not tell, in addition to other resources you'll return to again and again. In this descriptive writing mini unit, you'll find graphic organizers that will support all learners, with two different options for younger/weaker older/stronger students. The epic sensory word list and writing prompts provide dozens of options for descriptive writing practice and lessons.

⭐WRITING PRODUCT REVIEWS
Do you read the reviews before you buy a product? Almost all of us do, and your students will become pros at this aspect of writing that blends expository and persuasive writing. This is such a fun activity for teaching writing. There are two activities included. First, students will share three of their favorite products. Using a graphic organizer, they'll plan what they want to say about it. Then, in groups of three, they'll share their favorite products. They'll try to persuade the group members to buy their product. Then, they'll plan and write a product review about one of their three products. Your students will give this lesson five stars - highly recommend!

⭐NARRATIVE WRITING WITH CONTRACTION PRACTICE
Can narrative writing be interactive and engaging? Yes! You're going to love this narrative writing lesson that also enables students to practice their contractions. Yep! It's a two-for-one special! If you have reluctant writers, you'll love how the prompt and activities along with loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions will help all students be successful as they write about a day they were invisible. In addition to narrative writing and contraction practice, students will also get to do some fabulous revision work using the SCAMPER method.

⭐END-OF-YEAR WRITING PROMPTS
This set of 3 long-form essay prompts and 20 short-answer writing prompts will let you recognize the end-of-year while still keeping students' skills growing. The prompts use the elements of Depth & Complexity to help students analyze the year and the season to come. Both color and blackline versions are included, so you can make it look just the way you like. A wide range of grade levels can use the prompts appropriately and effectively. Plus, there are great rubrics!

Most of the activities are very, very low-prep. For the most part, you'll just need some copies!

BONUS: With the purchase of the bundle, you get a set of 20 writing prompt task cards, four for each of these types of writing:
❤️Expository
❤️Narrative
❤️Descriptive
❤️Persuasive
❤️Argumentative

You'll find this bundle is perfect for fourth grade through tenth grade students, and it's also wonderful for homeschoolers.

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☝EVERYTHING YOU'LL GET IN THIS BUNDLE:

✍DESCRIPTIVE WRITING MINI-UNIT PLAN✍

☀️ Teacher directions and ideas for implementation, support and differentiation so you'll know exactly how to use it easily and quickly

☀️ A complete lesson plan you can use to introduce students to the Magic Camera method of descriptive writing. It's so simple that you can explain it in two minutes, and you can use the lesson plan as a way to do a complete introduction to descriptive writing.

☀️ A Magic Camera Method handout students can use every time they practice descriptive writing

☀️ Upgrading Your Magic Camera: A more advanced handout for older or advanced students (use whatever works for your students!)

☀️ A graphic organizer for generating different sensory words and planning

☀️ A graphic organizer for tracking the use of sensory words as students are writing

☀️ A narrative writing rubric for elementary students with a self-reflection piece built in so students can evaluate their own writing

☀️ A narrative writing rubric for older/more advanced students

☀️ A one-page sensory words handout for younger students

☀️ A three-page sensory words handout for older/more advanced students to support their descriptive writing over and over

☀️ An extra, special word list of dozens and dozens of color words with the colors displayed so students can avoid saying "blue" over and over! (This is digital.) This will blow your mind! You will be shocked at how much richer students' descriptive writing will be with the addition of robust and varied color words. Pinkie promise!

☀️ A list of nearly 50 narrative writing prompts so you can offer loads of descriptive writing practice choices

☀️ Writing pages with the graphic organizers built right in so you can just print or share and get them writing!

☀️ Links to copy the appropriate documents to your own Google Drive™ so you will have access on every device

✍WRITING PRODUCT REVIEWS✍

☀️ "My Favorite Products" planning graphic organizer

☀️ Teacher instructions and procedures
☀️ "Products I Want to Try" Graphic Organizer

☀️ Product review planning page
☀️ Product Review writing page
☀️ Rubric

✍NARRATIVE WRITING WITH CONTRACTION PRACTICE✍

☀️ Teacher instructions and ideas so you'll know exactly what to do

☀️ Contractions practice sheet for partner work
☀️ Graphic organizer to prepare to write their narrative piece
☀️ Writing template with the instructions for their narrative writing prompt

☀️ SCAMPER revision instruction sheet
☀️ Rubric for the narrative writing piece that has student instructions integrated right into it


✍END-OF-YEAR WRITING PROMPTS✍

☀️ 20 short-answer writing prompts

☀️ 3 long-form essay prompts

☀️ Rubrics for both length of written responses

☀️ All prompts in color and black/white

☀️ Google Slides®️ versions of the prompts

☀️ Instruction sheet️

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⭐⭐WILLIAMS' MODEL OF CREATIVITY ⭐⭐
Two of the lessons in this bundle are based on Williams' Model of Creativity, a model designed to develop the traits of creativity in students.
☀️ Risk-taking - the ability to stretch beyond our comfort zone and take risks cognitively or personally
☀️ Originality - the ability to think of unique ideas

☀️ Elaboration - the ability expand on ideas

☀️ Imagination - the ability to build mental pictures and visualize possibilities
☀️ Flexibility - the ability to take different approaches and generate alternate ideas

☀️ Fluency - the ability to come up with lots of ideas or attributes

☀️ Curiosity - the capacity to wonder, to consider, to engage in research to find answers
☀️ Complexity - the ability to handle involved details, cope with difficult problems, and bring logical order to a given situation

In addition to addressing standards and providing an engaging and effective classroom experience, these activities will also build students' creativity skills.

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