The ORIGINAL Paragraph of the Week program on TpT! This is NOT a digital resource. If you would like a digital version you can find that here. It is DIFFERENT prompts, but the same scaffolded program...only digital!)This daily, scaffolded approach to paragraph writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed paragraphs. Students will write one weekly paragraph, focusing on the organization and format of the paragraph itself.There are 36 weeks worth of writing promp

Writing Interactive Notebooks ~ Sentences and Paragraphs for Common Core 3-8. This Writing Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT Best Sellers for Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text.Get the *original* Interactive Writing Notebooks - Over 30,000 copies sold!This resource is now part of an interactive notebook bundle. Find the bundle here.***********************************************Each of the 26 lessons includes a photo of the finished product, teacher’s notes, teacher’s

❝ My students struggled to understand what a paragraph was before we started using this resource. We now use this for our "Paragraph of the Week" and they love it! It's high structure and clear prompts, keep my students engaged and successful. Their paragraph writing is already growing by leaps and bounds! ❞ -Marissa D.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 how to write a paragra

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

Do your students struggle to find the theme of a story? Theme can be a difficult skill for students to master but it doesn't have to be! Teaching theme with fables makes finding themes in literature a little easier. In this resource, students will learn how to explain how the theme is conveyed through morals, lessons, and key details in fables. Students will quickly and easily be able to determine the message or central idea found in a story that the author is trying to convey.Eliminate the conf

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

This comprehensive unit addresses all of the narrative writing standards for the Common Core Standards, as well as most state standards! A traditional PDF version is included, as well as a link for Google Slides. This means this product is also ready for Google Classroom and other digital platforms!************************************************************************This is a 6-week unit that is broken down to day by day lessons. Each lesson contains detailed directions for a mini lesson, ind

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

In this detailed, CCSS-aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about narrative writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write personal narratives about an interesting experience that taught them a lesson. In their personal narratives, students will include key elements of narrative writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Through the study of a mentor text, pre-writing activities, draft guidelines, revision mini-lesso

Adding descriptive words in narrative and informational compositions is tricky! Students will receive a variety of synonyms for 40 commonly used words! These synonym charts (hang on the wall, put into writing folders/journals, or place on a binder ring for portable student access) and thesaurus booklets will increase depth and creativity in student word choice and writing! Students will quickly begin writing more descriptively by placing these interesting words right at their fingertips! These n

30 descriptive writing anchor charts to help students show more expressive language in their narrative and expository writing during writer's workshop. This product includes large and mini anchor charts that provide examples to actually SHOW 30 common emotions and feelings in a printable and digital format! Each chart states a commonly used emotion or feeling and gives 8 ways to "show" it in writing. These will encourage students to "show not tell".There are a variety of ways to use these:add t

Essay Writing This daily, scaffolded approach to essay writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed 5 paragraph essays. Students will write one essay a school month (20 days), focusing on the organization and format of the essay itself. There are 20 separate writing prompts in this 300+ page file. Prompts cover the genres of: Personal Narrative Imaginative Narrative Informational Writing Opinion Writing All of the prompts are student-centered so that they will

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Novel Study contains lessons aligned to the Common Core Standards (CCSS) for grades 5 – 7. This comprehensive digital + printable unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, constructed response writing prompts, skill practice, and language arts lessons.Be sure to check out all three versions of the Hatchet Book Unit to determine which best fits your teaching needs and style.Version #1 -- Hatchet [Gary Paulsen] Google Digital + Boom Learning + Printable Boo

Writing tips and reminders are great to give to students. These mini anchor charts are helpful when being added to a writing office. Your students will become more independent during writer's workshop. This writing tool will help students with personal narrative, informational, and opinion writing. Anchor charts and tips are right at their fingertips! These writing office folders are easy to store, great for providing privacy, all while giving lots of information in one place! All charts come in

Why is this better than a basal? Because YOU get to choose the order and even the skills you want to cover with each book! A GOOD mentor text will provide opportunities to teach or review a variety of skills, not the ONE the teacher manual says you have to teach. This product is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned lesson ideas, activities, graphic organizers, and writing prompts for 40 of your favorite mentor texts to use in grades 3-5! (See the complete list below.) With over 100 graphic organ

There are over 200 pages of resources in this Greek Mythology Interactive Notebook resource, and it is the perfect addition to an Ancient Greece Interactive Notebook or Ancient Greece unit, These mythology 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,

Halloween Printable ActivitiesI am always looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the holidays with my students, without straying too much from our curriculum. These Halloween-themed printables are align to the 4th and 5th grade common core standards and are perfect for celebrating the spirit of Halloween in the classroom!! Here is the breakdown of pages in this resource...Pumpkin Patch Place Value (4.NBT.2 & 5.NBT.3)Zombies to Zero (4.NBT.4 & 5.OA.1)Ghostly Equations (4.OA.1)Ghostly Ex

Hey busy friends,I don't know about you, but I love teaching writing! It's just that sometimes it's SO.MUCH.WORK. Well, included in this Narrative Writing Unit is everything you will need to teach a 5th grade writing unit on Narrative Writing, easy peasy! Included in this unit:- Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 2 {30+ days worth of lessons!}- Interactive Notebook Pages- Writer’s Workshop Year at a Glance - Rubrics for grading students work {Using Standards Based Grading}- Mentor Text

"This is my all time favorite writing curriculum I have ever used. I have taught writing for many years. This is the curriculum I will be using for years to come. Everything was aligned, ready to use, and user friendly!"These units are from our signature STEP-BY-STEP WRITING® with INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS. It is a COMPLETE WRITER'S WORKSHOP PROGRAM with all the tools needed for the entire year. It is filled with engaging lessons (scripted), anchor charts, modeling, mentor text, interactive noteboo

This resource includes everything you need to teach and assess the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Engage your students with these fun and challenging activities - and simplify your lesson planning with this no prep resource that includes both print and digital activities for your students.This 80-page resource includes:Holes novel study cover pageTracking My Progress (student accountability sheet)Chapter Activities (one-page comprehension activities for every three chapters)Dictionary Detective (fo

Teach Opinion, Informational, Explanatory, Personal Narrative, and Creative Narrative writing like a pro with these no-prep writing units! Each unit includes teacher examples and printable student pages. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible, well organized essays! Great for 4th & 5th grade teachers that want to easily teach their students the writing process with all student organizers and teacher models included!Buy this bundle and

This free pack is sure to help you through your writing dialogue unit! In this pack you will receive: -Posters outlining the rules to edit and punctuate dialogue correctly -A passage for students to correctly edit and punctuate dialogue, with answer keys -Links to my blog posts on teaching dialogue with additional ideas, lessons, and mentor texts -Student center/group activity and recording sheet to practice putting together a quote with the correct punctuation See my 2 blog posts at: YoungTe

This resource on Personal Narratives was designed to teach students about this particular genre, and to walk them through the process of writing their first personal narrative. Digital pages are available for the student pages only. These can be used with Google Slides.This unit is broken down into 16 lessons and should be used over the course of 3 to 4 weeks:Lesson 1: What is a Personal Narrative?Lesson 2: Personal Narrative TopicsLesson 3: Small MomentsLesson 4: Brainstorm & OrganizeLe