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

This resource includes all standards including reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, fluency, speaking and listening.These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 5th Grade. These will cover your entire year! 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

Looking for a way to make teaching paragraph writing so much easier ? Want to help your students write well-crafted paragraphs? This Complete Paragraph Writing Bundle in both print and digital will help you teach each part of the paragraph in a direct way! It combines four of my very popular writing strategy sets: Paragraph Color Coding and Outlining, Topic Sentences, Transitions in Writing, and Conclusion Sentences. Everything you need is here to help your students truly understand how to creat

This comprehensive unit addresses all of the informational writing standards! This file is available as a traditional PDF file, AND all student forms are available in Google Docs for easy availability to Google Classroom. ********************************************************************This is a 6-week unit that is broken down to day by day lessons. Each lesson contains directions for a mini lesson, independent work time, and share time. There is also an additional handout or guided practice

This is the companion to my Interactive Writing Notebooks, picking up where it leaves off with more advanced writing assignments. Just like my other products, all of these lessons are differentiated and scaffolded to meet ALL of your students' needs. This product includes 5 very detailed writing units that will likely take between 1-2 weeks to complete each one. These units can be done in any order but do increase in difficulty with each one. You do not have to have my Interactive Writing Note

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

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

Thanksgiving Activities for Reading and Writing, Grades 4-8 Forget your old Thanksgiving lesson plans! Your students do NOT want to hear about the first Thanksgiving, and they DEFINITELY do NOT want to write dull paragraphs about the things they are thankful for. Seriously. They DON’T! Spice up your lesson plans with this DIFFERENT differentiated unit for Thanksgiving! Your students will: • View and analyze a video clip about innovative humane practices at turkey farms and processing plants

One of the first things we teachers try to do when we embark on a new school year is get to know our new batch of students. Most of our students are quite eager to introduce themselves to us, too! This flipbook was designed to meet both needs in a fun, creative way! Students write and draw facts they want their teacher to know about themselves, and teachers catch a quick initial glimpse into their students' lives and what makes them tick! This can even be used on the very first day of school! J

Get your students excited about informational writing! This complete informational writing unit includes daily lesson plans, notebook charts, mentor texts and more. This unit takes your students through the whole writing process. Students will begin with getting ideas and end with a published piece of informational writing. The informational writing lessons included can be used in two ways: Students get their own ideas for their essay. Students write based on a prompt. What is included in the in

Looking for book report templates that help scaffold the writing of a fiction book report? This resource includes templates, guiding questions, and visuals in both printable and digital format (Google Slides, Google Forms) to help your students write impressive book reviews. Also included are posters and banners to decorate your classroom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------⭐ This resource features both US and British Engli

Holes by Louis Sachar Book Unit contains lessons aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 5 - 8. This comprehensive unit includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, constructed response questions, lessons on writing informational text, and figurative language.Digital Activities for Google SlidesOpen-ended questions such as constructed response questions and skill lessons are provided through Google Slides. Digital Activities for Boom LearningMultiple-choice, matching, etc. type question

This HUGE BUNDLE includes everything you need to teach, practice and assess writing for the entire year! Students will complete four major units of study: personal narrative, informational reports, opinion essays and fiction narratives. The best part of this unit is that it includes EVERYTHING you need. You do not need to purchase a long list of books. All of the necessary mentor texts are included! Are you teaching writing virtually? Good news! We just added Digital Writing Notebooks on Google

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Book Unit contains lessons aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 3 – 5. This comprehensive unit includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, constructed response questions, and lessons on writing informational texts. Both printable and digital activities are included. The digital resources include the following: Hot Potatoes Resources include: • 12 Comprehension Quizzes• Vocabulary Practice Google Resources include: • 14 Constructed Writing

Hey writing teachers!Whew - Writing can be a challenging subject, but with this bundle of writing units, ensure that you will meet all of the standards and save your valuable time! This bundle includes daily lesson plans, teacher materials, student materials, pre and post assessments, rubrics, and more! This is a complete curriculum that can be used as a stand-alone resource or used to supplement an existing curriculum. By purchasing the units as a bundle you save 20%! Included in this unit:- De

Dear 5th grade teacher friends,Whew! This unit is JAM PACKED with everything you need to teach Informative writing. This 6 week unit has all the right tools to make teaching informative writing a cinch!Included in this unit:• Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 5 | 30+ days worth of lessons!• Interactive Notebook Pages to Glue Into Student's Writer's Notebooks• Writer’s Workshop Year at a Glance• Rubrics for Grading Student Work {Using Standards Based Grading}• Several How To PowerPoints that t

Thankful Writing is a lesson plan with a set of digital and printable resources for teaching students to write a simple 5-paragraph essay about the things they are thankful for. You'll find directions for introducing this easy expository format, leading a brainstorming session, and working with students as they complete their Thanksgiving essays. The best part is that they can glue their essays into a folder, decorate them, and share them with their families on Thanksgiving Day!New for 2020! Tha

Need to assign your students an animal research report project? These print and digital (google slides) animal research report templates will scaffold the research writing process. This pack features both U.S. Spellings and British English in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included. Resource OverviewScaffold the writing of an Informational Report on an animal of choice or one from 10 animal groups with this bundled pack both in print and digital format (google

Students will erupt with excitement when they work on this fun and flashy circlebook activity! Fifteen mix-n-match templates feature ready-to-color illustrations of a Cinder Cone, a Composite Cone, and a Shield Volcano, complete with keys. For longer circle books, students can fill in additional templates with vocabulary words, create pages of volcano facts, research types of lava or the formation of volcanoes, or write a creative story about exploring a volcano. Check out the PREVIEW MOVIE to s

Let's write descriptive writing leads! Here are 20 popular writing hooks that students can use to enhance the beginnings of their narrative and informational writing! Each anchor chart states the name of the "writing hook" and gives examples to help students produce their own! These pair nicely with my Writing Conclusions Charts.These charts come small enough to fit into student notebooks for easy reference. They save space only taking up 2.5 pages of the writing journal if all 20 are used! They

Get a full year of writing units from Launching Writing Workshop to Informative, Narrative, Opinion, and Persuasive, Descriptive Writing, and more. These ready-to-use, step-by-step writing resources include everything you need from launching writing workshop at the beginning of the year through each writing genre.Each unit has easy to plan lessons that include mini lessons, independent writing, and shared writing. You'll find anchor charts for whole group instruction and everything you need for

Writing a Paragraph of the Week! This resource gives you a step-by-step instructional plan for paragraph writing instruction. The Writing Plan includes my 6 favorite go-to writing units - informative, narrative, descriptive, opinion, summary, & conclusions! Most of these units consist of 5 initial lessons. Students will explore topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences of paragraphs. At the end of these lessons, students will have the organizational knowledge needed to wr

The Common Core Writing Standards are a new and exciting endeavor for many of us. "Amazing and helpful resource for this new common core writing!" --Molleyrey This bundle has it all! It includes complete units for the three main types of writing for the common core. Please note that these units are all available for purchase separately, but you will save money by purchasing them as a bundle. This resource includes: Opinion Writing Unit for the Common Core Common Core alignment Suggested da

These writing strategies posters and interactive writing strategies anchor charts are a must have for introducing and reinforcing tons of important writing strategies terms and concepts. Printing flexibility allows for either a poster, an interactive anchor chart, or mini (half page) posters/anchor charts for students’ writing notebooks! A paperless, Google Slides™ version of all of the posters is also included for distance learning!Now you can introduce a lesson with a poster or anchor chart,