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

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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

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RACE Writing Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Why use the RACE strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students with disabilities, but it can also be a helpful scaffold for all students. It teaches students to do what good writers do naturally—restating the question in a complete sentence, answ

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 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"

This Greek Mythology Unit contains over 200 pages and it is the perfect addition to an Ancient Greece Interactive Notebook or Ancient Greece unit. These Greek mythology projects and activities include full text versions of a variety of Ancient Greek myths, telling the tales of the Olympians and other Greek Gods and Goddesses. It contains all of the resources, foldable activities, graphic organizers, and mythology worksheets you need to teach your students about the gods, goddesses, heroes, and m

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

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During this project, students will first learn about growth mindset by reading an informational article about Carol Dweck’s work. Then, they’ll select a famous person in history with a growth mindset. They’ll choose from 14 famous leaders and pioneers in their fields for the basis of their research. Students will research their famous person as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for ways that the famous person had a growth mindset. Next

Promote literacy and build critical thinking skills, for even the most reluctant of readers, with this high-interest novel study to use with Wonder by R. J. Palacio. This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format for distance and digital learning.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes Google Drive™ format files, additional writing acti

This 125 page The City of Ember Unit contains a complete novel study with detailed City of Ember questions, answer keys, vocabulary, City of Ember activities, story element analysis, and engaging projects. To aid reading comprehension, a variety of City of Ember graphic organizers are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, foldable activities, templates, and rubrics!Save time planning with these easy to impleme

This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach"

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This comprehensive Because of Winn-Dixie novel study resource includes EVERYTHING YOU NEED to teach Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Simplify your lesson planning with this unit, which comes with activities in BOTH print and digital formats.These pages were created to guide your students through the novel, hold them accountable for their reading, and assess their comprehension through a number of fun and challenging activities. This resource can be used as a whole-class novel study, smal

These 10 high-interest passages are paired with reading comprehension questions and short response questions for students to practice multiple comprehension skills AND writing with the RACE writing strategy. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. Passages range between reading levels of 4-6th grade, making them perfect for groups of students with a wide range of reading levels. Comprehension skil

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practic

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practic

Teach students to love poetry with this 6 week 4th and 5th 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 31 day unit includes over 300 pages of resources for you and your students to learn to love poetry. What’s included:31+days of lesson plan on