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Writing-expository Common Core RI.3.8 resources
Procedural Writing - Writer's Workshop "How-to" Unit
Procedural "how to" writing is an engaging and fun way to bring the “real world” into the classroom. What is included:Characteristics of Procedural Texts – a one page description of features usually found in procedural (“how-to”) texts.Reviewing a Procedural Text – students will select or use a teacher-chosen procedural text to review. Students will read or scan the procedural text, checking off each characteristic that they find. Students will then describe the most useful feature of the tex
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Viet
Book Reports BUNDLE to Use with ANY Book
56 Book Reports to use with ANY Book, both Fiction and Nonfiction! Using this book report BUNDLE in your classroom will benefit your students' reading comprehension skills:Looking for digital book reports for distance learning? Check out my Digital Book Reports Google Drive Edition.FICTION:Story elementsMaking connections to textQuestioning the textAuthor's purposeCompare & contrastProblem & solution / conflict & resolutionBeginning, Middle & EndSummaryCharacterizationSequencin
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1st - 4th
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Lucky Leprechauns St. Patrick's Day Non-Fiction Reading
Don't let students' non-fiction comprehension be left up to "luck".Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with 33 pages of informational passages, reading comprehension checks, cute crafts, and lots of TEXT STRUCTURE practice. 6 non-fiction reading passages/sheets with corresponding comprehension pages.Get Me Gold pot of gold craft - fill our pot with fun facts found in the passages. Add the rainbow to connect your pot of gold to the Comprehension Cloud craft- answer the who, what, when, where, why, how (d
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Expository Text Structures Unit
Expository Text Structures Unit
**Covers six main structures:
Cause and Effect
Sequencing
Problem and Solution
Description
Question and Answer
Compare and Contrast
** Ten days of lesson plans and activities including end of unit assessment
**Common Core and TEKS aligned**
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3rd - 5th
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Biography Research Note-taking Packet
Biography Report - Informational Writing & Research Packet: Students will use this biography report note-taking packet to collect their informational research, and stay organized too!
Students will complete the biography research note-taking packet after reading a biography book about someone who has impacted history and/or our lives.
This biography packet would also be great for a specific unit of study such as presidents, famous women, inventors, explorers, Hispanic Heritage Month, Afri
Grades:
2nd - 7th
RI 3.6 & RI 3.8 Author's Point, Reasons, & Point of View
Teach & practice finding author's point, reasons, and distinguishing point of view with these passages about video games! Connect & engage your students by using these differentiated letters written to Principal Wilson about allowing video games (or not) in school.
This product includes:
- 3 leveled versions of one letter for video games
- 3 leveled versions of one letter against video games
- leveled comprehension questions for each letter
- writing & language standards question
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3rd - 5th
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Informational Text Structures Graphic Organizers - Nonfiction text structures
Is informational reading and writing a challenge for your students? Are you expected to teach about nonfiction text structures but don’t have ready-to-use tools like “signal words” and text structure graphic organizers at your fingertips? I didn’t either!This text structures resource was created for use in my classroom to support my increased use of informational text in both reading and writing. I have been explicitly teaching my students about these informational text structures and about th
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3rd - 5th
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Animal Research Bundle: From Anchor Charts to Assessments!
Animal Research BundleThis Animal Research Project Bundle contains all you need to teach students how to complete a self-directed research project ending in a Natural History Museum with a unique animal cube project. Teaches non-fiction text features, note taking, paragraph writing skills and adding details. Includes 5 weeks of ready to go lesson plans. Students will choose one animal from a selection of grade-appropriate non-fiction and focus on their animal's adaptations, habitat, predator
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3rd - 5th
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The Art of Information Writing Complete Unit
Slides and materials for each session! Are you teaching students nonfiction, informational, or expository writing? This ART OF INFORMATION WRITING COMPLETE UNIT product pairs seamlessly with Lucy Calkins' 3rd Grade Information Writing Unit 2: The Art of Information Writing and requires no prep for teachers teaching the Units of Study by Lucy Calkins.It includes 21 ready-to-go mini-lessons including teaching points, turn & talks, modeling, active engagement, independent practice, and shares (
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Penguin Research Project
This document includes an introduction to penguins, penguin habitats, information with web links and research writing pages for the following penguins:
~adelie
~african
~chistrap
~emperor
~erect-crested
~fiordland
~galapagos
~gentoo
~humboldt
~king
~little (or blue)
~macaroni
~magellanic
~rockhopper
~royal
~snares
~yellow-eyed.
I used this as a research-based project. I have attached a matrix that you can use or you can use as a sample for students to gain information about their penguin.
If
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K - 5th
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U.S. Capitol National Symbols + United States Congress Lesson – American Symbols
The US Capitol is a Content-Based Interactive Notebook Unit fostering Literacy in Social Studies for 1st-3rd grade students. We've included Nonfiction Informational Text, FOUR Interactive Notebook Assignments, and a balanced mix of activities to teach about the history of the United States Capitol as one of our American Symbols:U.S. Capitol COMPLETE Lesson-we supply all of the CONTENT!Questions to assess Informational Text ComprehensionCircle Chart and Persuasive Letter Writing Assignment – Org
Grades:
1st - 3rd
The Art of Information Writing Complete Unit
Slides and materials for each session! Are you teaching students nonfiction, informational, or expository writing? This ART OF INFORMATION WRITING COMPLETE UNIT product pairs seamlessly with Lucy Calkins' 3rd Grade Information Writing Unit 2: The Art of Information Writing and requires no prep for teachers teaching the Units of Study by Lucy Calkins.It includes 21 ready-to-go mini-lessons including teaching points, turn & talks, modeling, active engagement, independent practice, and shares (
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Martin Luther King Jr - Passage & Biography Research Project - 3rd and 4th Grade
This guided MLK Biography Project includes a PASSAGE, BIOGRAPHY ACTIVITY, and WRITING EXTENSION ACTIVITY that connects seamlessly. Students can practice reading with a purpose as they pull text evidence from their reading to support their writing.Students willRead text that is approximately a 3rd or 4th grade level (included in project)Gather information for their biography activity sheetDraw a picture of Martin Luther King Jr.Write a reflection question to summarize their learning (and include
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3rd - 5th
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Martin Luther King Jr - Passage with R.A.C.E Comprehension Questions
This guided MLK Activity includes a PASSAGE and COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS that connect seamlessly. Students can practice reading with a purpose as they pull text evidence from their reading to support their writing.WANT A FULL MLK BIOGRAPHY PROJECT?!?! CLICK HERE!!!Clipart Credit: Illumismart (all clipart used within rights outlined in author's terms of use)When you buy something on TPT, I am sure you are all about quality. I am a "one man band" but I try my best and only post things that I used i
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3rd - 5th
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Nellie Bly Close Reading Passage Quiz Biography Writing 3rd 4th 5th Grades
This Nellie Bly Close Reading Passage is perfect for Women in History 3rd, 4th & 5th grade. Includes Informative Close Reading Passage; Informative Nonfiction Biography Writing graphic organizer, informative sentences starters, & rubric; vocabulary words; a Google Forms Self Checking Quiz; and a Google Slides Presentation for students to use as a final presentation.SEE THE PREVIEW FOR A MORE IN-DEPTH DESCRIPTIONBUY THE BUNDLE FOR WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH AND SAVE!!!Includes 7 incredible wo
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3rd - 6th
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Editable Famous American Wax Museum Complete Mega Pack
Your learners will love this nonfiction Famous American Wax Museum unit that includes editable parent letters, handouts, invitations, and note taking sheets for students. Social studies, reading, and expository writing objectives will be covered all in one project and this is a fun one for learners and parents! ⭐️DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW FILE TO SEE THIS RESOURCE IN MORE DETAIL⭐️CUSTOMERS ALSO LOVE:→Editable Non-Fiction Bundle→Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle→ Check out my store page for many
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2nd - 4th
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Current Event Nonfiction Article Bundle, Digital and Paper
This is the bundle of all my current event articles in both paper and digital formats!All of these products include nonfiction articles that will engage students in four different topics; Healthy Eating, The 2020 International SpaceX Launch, Visiting the Grand Canyon, and Saving Sea Turtles and Other Endangered Animals. Along with each article, you will also receive a fact page with interesting facts based on each topic. Each Resource will include a digital and paper version of the following:* E
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3rd - 5th
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Force and Interaction Unit Plan: Science, Reading, Writing
Forces and Interaction Integrated Unit Plan
This is a backwards designed one month unit writing unit aligned with Forces and Interaction NGSS 3rd grade standards, CCSS Literacy Standards 3.1-3.10 and Writing Standards 3.2, 3.4-3.8. This Force and Interaction Unit plan goes from Anchor Charts to Assessments! I have bundled this with my Personal Student Dictionary
because I feel that it is an essential tool for writing.
This Force and Interaction Writing Unit Includes:
*1 full month of Day
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3rd
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Jigsaw Activities Bundle
This is the ultimate bundle for all of your jigsaw activity needs!What are jigsaw activities?A jigsaw is an activity that involves the organizing of students dependent into various groups. Students are dependent on their peers to learn a new skill, and then teach the skill to another set of peers. A teacher will take a topic or set of skills and break it into pieces. Students will work together to assemble the pieces to complete the task.How to do a Jigsaw ActivityYou start by selecting a task
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3rd - 5th
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Clara Lemlich Close Reading Passage Quiz Biography Writing 3rd 4th 5th Grades
This Clara Lemlich Close Reading Passage is perfect for Women in History 3rd, 4th & 5th grade. Includes Informative Close Reading Passage; Informative Nonfiction Biography Writing graphic organizer, informative sentences starters, & rubric; vocabulary words; a Google Forms Self Checking Quiz; and a Google Slides Presentation for students to use as a final presentation. SEE THE PREVIEW FOR A MORE IN-DEPTH DESCRIPTIONBUY THE BUNDLE FOR WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH AND SAVE!!!In
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3rd - 5th
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Writing a Biography | Differentiated Reading Research and Publishing
Teach your students that a biography is a report based on key details that are a snapshot of a person's life. Differentiate based on student interest, reading, and writing readiness. This product provides scaffolding for your students to write a 5 paragraph biography through modeling and explicate instructions. Choose between a flip book or report format. This product will support your instruction from beginning to ending with a scoring rubric. It contains everything you will need to help your
Grades:
2nd - 6th
"Harvesting Hope" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum: 3rd grade ELA Module 3- Unit 2: Astonishing Accomplishments. These slides correlate with Lessons 11-14 for the book "Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez."This resource is completely editable through Google Slides and includes modeling slides, timers when appropriate, book photos, discussion questions, vocabulary words, youtube links to read alouds, and anchor chart guides. Please know that these are for the Bookworms Curriculum and the slides were created to help wit
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3rd
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Also included in: "Grade 3 ELA Module 3 BUNDLE" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Black History Month | The Underground Railroad Quilt Codes
Are you looking for an interactive activity to get your students to understand the purpose of the Underground Railroad for Black History Month and beyond? This is the perfect STANDARD BASED activity for your students. Inside, you will find background information on the Underground Railroad with a specific link to give you a visual interpretation. We have also provided print outs to give your students to explain the symbols in the quilts. They will draw, color, and write an explanatory text on wh
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Harriet Tubman Activities Reading Passage Biography Writing 3rd 4th 5th Grade
This Harriet Tubman Close Reading Passage is perfect for Women in History 3rd, 4th & 5th grade. Includes Informative Close Reading Passage; Informative Nonfiction Biography Writing graphic organizer, informative sentences starters, & rubric; vocabulary words; a Google Forms Self Checking Quiz; and a Google Slides Presentation for students to use as a final presentation.SEE THE PREVIEW FOR A MORE IN-DEPTH DESCRIPTIONBUY THE BUNDLE FOR WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH AND SAVE!!!Includes 7 incredibl
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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