Paragraph writing just got easier! Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to help your students learn all about writing a paragraph.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:60 different writing prompts (20 opinion, 20 informative, & 20 narrative)Brainstorming PagesOrganizing and Planning PagesFirst Draft PagesRevision & Editing PagesFinal Draft PagesPublishing PagesDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintParagraph

Get at least TWO or THREE Assessments for EVERY Common Core Language Arts StandardYou can now use the assessments with ANY state standard. The Common Core Standards version has the standard listed at the top of each page. There is also an additional version where the standard has been removed, so the assessments can be rearranged to work with almost any state standard. *************************************************************************This packet includes a three-page AND one-page assessme

“This unit is OUTSTANDING! So easy to follow, all resources included. The students are really understanding opinion writing, thanks to the easy step by step parts!” - Alyssa R.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your existence, or binge-watch reality television—because it’s just that frustrating and overwhelming—I made this resource for you. If your students dread writing time more than meatloaf in the school cafeteria...I made this  resource for them, t

When it comes to getting students to write stories that will keep readers or listeners on the edge of their seats, nothing beats a good old-fashioned SCARY or SCARY STORY. This Halloween Narrative Writing Unit is perfect to help your kiddos write super scary stories! There is even a Google Slides version if you are doing distance learning. Click on the PREVIEW to see everything that is included.This product contains two magic words: CHOICE and TOOLS.  Students are offered a buffet of plots, set

Get everything you need to teach narrative, opinion, fictional narrative, and informational writing for the entire year! These lessons are broken down to make writing workshop manageable and fun for the teacher and students. Each resource is available as a PDF file and in Google Slides. This makes this unit compatible with Google Classroom!This includes a collection of four of my best selling Writing units. Each of the units is broken down into 30 detailed day-by-day lesson plans and includes al

Engage your writers like never before! Should animals be in zoos? Let them decide! This 3 week long research and fact-based argumentative writing unit contains everything you need to have your students begging to write each day, including research materials! Students love being knowledgeable on the topic when forming their opinions during these research-based writing lessons. Click here to SAVE 20% by buying ALL 3 Research-Based Opinion Writing Units in one convenient bundle.Included in this Res

These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 3rd Grade. These will cover your entire year! Reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, fluency, speaking and listening are all included.Use them for more than just assessments. They are a perfect supplement to your English Language Arts Curriculum.·These will work with ANY reading program and allow teachers to conduct a thorough assessment of a stand

First Day Jitters: Reading Unit for First Day Jitters Do you love using the book, “First Day Jitters” at back to school time? Then, you and your students will love this engaging and fun First Day Jitters Close Reading unit! This week-long unit is packed with crafts, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints, and soooo much more! They’ll love the fun and you'll love the academic focus this unit has! INCLUDES DIGITAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES! *****************************************

This opinion writing unit teaches all of the opinion writing standards! This is available as a traditional PDF file AND Google Drive file!This is a 6-week unit that with 30 day-by-day lessons. These lessons are designed to scaffold students into writing, revising, and editing a five paragraph opinion essay. There are detailed lessons on organization, style, word choice, and so much more!Each lesson contains directions for a mini lesson, work time, and share time. There is also an additional hand

Design a Donut Project: I think we all agree that kids love donuts. One thing kids might not love as much is writing. Engaging students in writing is one of my goals every year. Pairing something students love (like donuts) with persuasive writing is a fun way to increase engagement, especially for your reluctant writers. This persuasive writing project is a fun and meaningful way for students to develop and practice persuasive writing skills. In this project, students will design new and unique

This 20 Day Writing Unit will encourage your students to become authors of opinion, persuasive, and letter writing! They will walk through the writing process from brainstorming to publishing in an organized and structured way! Weeks 3-4 are structured a little differently to allow students time to read books and respond to literature while forming opinions and writing persuasive letters. You will notice a difference in format for those two weeks but everything needed is still included! He

Crankenstein Activities: Digital Classroom and In Print Are your kids obsessed with "Crankenstein" by Samantha Berger? Then, they'll love this Beyond the Text reading unit! You'll love the academic focus this Crankenstein unit has! This Crankenstein unit has everything done for you and follows a classroom-proven five-day lesson plan routine. Not only do these Crankenstein activities engage your students, but they also help them understand how truly special books can be! Especially Crankenstein

Teaching opinion writing can be tricky but this comprehensive unit takes you and your students step by step through the process from basic opinion writing to adding enhancing features. This 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing unit includes:Scripted minilessonsPowerPoint presentation that lines up with unit- NEW AS OF January 2022Writing promptsAnchor ChartsWriter's Scaffolded ChecklistsWriting samplesAssorted writing papersGraphic organizers for each topic Blanks for different topics (complete break

This packet includes everything you need to post the standards you are teaching in your classroom. This can be placed on a bulletin board, focus wall, or dry erase board, or anywhere you have a little extra space. The packet includes 6 different decorative alphabet schemes to choose from, 10 colors of bracket frames to use as a heading, and editable individual letters. There is a whole page version and a half page version. The posters and include all of the Common Core Standards for Third Grade,

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Writing ALL YEARWant to have your writing activities all planned out for the ENTIRE YEAR? From Expository, How To or procedural writing, to persuasive or narrative this huge pack has everything you need to teach writing for the year! Here's the pack for you!This chunky download includes ALL my writing craft units for the ENTIRE year! The best part? It also includes all future writing crafts that I make. Over $30 in savings by purchasing this growing bundle! *************************************

This Google Slides Resource works well for Distance Learning. Digital graphic organizers take students through the process of writing an opinion paragraph. The opinion writing prompts are organized into 5 Google Slide Decks. One deck has a blank for the prompt allowing you to edit the prompt to be anything you'd like.This resource contains:*a teacher PDF download with a link to click for the digital resource*a digital teacher's manual in Google Classroom*5 Google Slides resources for each of y

This resource on Opinion Writing was designed to teach students about the genre of opinion writing, and to walk them through the process of writing their first opinion essay. Digital pages are available for the student pages only. These can be used with Google Slides.This unit is broken down into 13 lessons and should be used over the course of 3 to 4 weeks:Lesson 1: What is Opinion Writing?Lesson 2: Opinion Writing TopicsLesson 3: Selecting a TopicLesson 4: Brainstorm & OrganizeLesson 5

Is there room on the broom?Make learning fun with this Halloween STEM activity in which students investigate the design of a broom! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson.In this STEM Challenge, students design and build a broom to hold as much candy as possible. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.A writing extension is i

Writing: Common Core Writing Bundle SCRIPTED MINILESSONS FOR ALL UNITSThis bundle contains 4 products: Personal Narrative Writing, Realistic Fiction, Non fiction Writing with Expert Topics, and Opinion Writing. Happy Writing!Nonfiction Writing Unit- Expert Topics with MINILESSONS ADDEDThis unit is common core aligned and chock full of resources to launch a non fiction writing unit. It contains everything from planning sheets, and graphic organizers for pulling headings and details from a large

Persuasive writing can be so much fun! Everyone has an opinion on just about everything. Is that not right? Kids have strong opinions about all kinds of things from storms to foods to what time to go to bed at night. And they LOVE to try to persuade you! So why not take that enthusiasm and apply it to their writing and make it fun? Great for at home distance learning packets! Print what you want students to work on.Click here to see the Monthly Persuasive Writing Take It or Leave Its!✅ You

6 FREE Common Core-Aligned writing prompts pulled from my monthly writing prompt packets. Designed in traditional & real-world formats such as post cards, flyers, and newspaper articles. These prompts will help young writers discover the powerful role that writing plays in their everyday lives and make writing an adventure. All writing prompts are Common Core aligned to the following 3 English Language Arts Text Purposes: Opinion, Narrative, and Informative. ________________________________

Are your little writers distracted during writing times? This Writer's Office will provide the privacy most students need in order to focus on their writing. It also puts visual writing tools write at their fingertips - so they don't have to be distracted looking for the tools they need.The Writer's Office contains writing tools that will help your students move through the writing process with increasing independence - you won't have to be reminding them what to do and how to do it!The Writer's

Set up your classroom focus wall or bulletin board with these McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series posters. There are posters for almost everything you will be teaching each week to display for student reference including vocabulary words, genres, comprehension strategies, grammar skills and much much more! Students will easily be able to look at your focus wall to remember what skill they are learning that week, what their words for the week are, and the meanings with examples of the skills for t