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

How do you get your students enjoy writing? This is a question that I asked myself for years! After being in the classroom for 8 years, I had the idea of giving my students a say in what they would be writing. This idea changed it all!PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY DETAILED PREVIEW ABOVE!By offering a variety of topics that they could choose to learn and write about, I found that my students weren't just writing, they were asking to write! I filled my bulletin board with a "writing menu." It allow

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

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Looking to incorporate writing into your Back to School activities? In unit 1 of our Write On! resource, students will write narratives about surviving a new grade level in a fun & engaging writing boot camp! This unit will guide your students in writing two personal narrative pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have two themes for writing in this writing unit: My (2nd/3rd) Grade Survival Guide and Secret Sergeants. These are the perfect way to begin your ye

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Are you looking to spice up your writing block with fun, engaging, and meaningful activities? This is UNIT TWO of our 11 unit series. This unit will guide your students in writing two personal narrative pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have two themes for writing in this writing unit: My Ouch Story (A time when I was sick or hurt) and Boo! I Mean it! (A time when I was afraid). We also included everything you need to know about your writing block. Here's what

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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

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This resource on Informative Writing was designed to teach students about the genre of informative writing, and to walk them through the process of writing their first informative essay. Digital pages are available for the student pages only. These can be used with Google Slides or PowerPoint.This unit is broken down into 18 lessons and should be used over the course of 5 to 6 weeks:Lesson 1: Diving Into to Informative TextsLesson 2: What is Informative Writing?Lesson 3: Informative Writing T

Are you looking to spice up your writing block with fun, engaging, and meaningful activities? This is UNIT FOUR of an 11 unit series. This unit will guide your students in writing three informational writing pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have three themes for this writing unit: Writing Informative Paragraphs with Hamburger Paragraphs (in this week students will also inform the reader about their friend), All About Holidays, My Specialty: _____ where stude

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This freebie features information pages about these penguin species: Emperor, King, Gentoo, Adelie, Macaroni and Little. The pages are written in an easy-to-read format making it easier for young students to study these birds and write reports. They can read the information page, record key facts on the graphic organizer and then use this information to write a research paper. This product supports the common core standards for reading informational texts and non-fiction writing. A metric ve

This CCSS aligned informative writing unit contains lesson plans, student printables, rubrics, anchor papers, and other materials needed to teach the information gathering process for research-based writing. Specifically, this pack includes:--Detailed day by day lesson plans broken into 3 categories: -2 weeks for the research and note-taking process -2-3 weeks for writing a multi-paragraph research paper OR -2-3 weeks for writing a nonfiction book--"My Research Notebook"

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

Are you looking for ways to strengthen your students' writing skills? These 15 writing prompts will give your students the practice they need to write narrative, opinion, and informative stories and essays while focusing on organization, evidence, sentence structure, and grammar. Just print and go or assign digitally through Google. These prompts are perfect for writing practice any time during the year!Through a variety of writing prompts, students will learn how to focus on the prompt given wh

Teach students to love poetry with this 6 week 3rd grade unit? This easy to use resource has everything you need to make teaching poetry exciting any time of the year. ***Now updated for Distance Learning with a Google Slide Student Handbook, Digital Poetry Vocabulary Book, and a Digital Poetry Portfolio to easily upload to Google Classroom.The 29 day unit includes over 300 pages of resources for you and your students to learn to love poetry. What’s included:29+ days of lesson plan on third g

This resource is a complete science unit with engaging lessons and experiments to introduce second, third, and even fourth grade students to science, the scientific method, and other processes scientists use. Students learn about different areas of science, types of scientists and the jobs they do, science tools, science safety, and planning and conducting experiments using the scientific method. Your students will enjoy ten high engagement lessons in a detailed teaching Power Point, science jou

Are you looking to spice up your writing block with fun, engaging, and meaningful activities? This is UNIT THREE of an 11 unit series. This unit will guide your students in writing three how-to/procedural writing pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have three themes for this writing unit: How to Make a Pie in a Cup (will need recipe materials), Writing an Original How-To (any topic), STEM project with How-To (students transform a box into a new creation with a