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

Argument, narrative, and informative essays are fun and easy to teach when you use strong mentor texts and a step-by-step process. These highly-rated writing units include everything you need, all in one place.Each writing resource is comprehensive and easy to use. The lessons at a glance pages are also included in an editable format for easy insertion into a digital plan-book.This is what awesome teachers like you have said about this resource: "Tons of resources that I go back to again and ag

The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable. Three grade level

❝ This resource is fantastic for teaching paragraph structure, adding details to writing, and supporting opinions with reasoning. My students enjoyed completing the paragraphs each week and I saw growth in their writing by the end of the year. Thank you! ❞ -Molly TParagraph 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 and practice writing a paragraph.You'll get everything you need for argument

Show, Don't Tell Writing PowerPoint: The "Show, Don't Tell" writing strategy is designed to help students use descriptive words and sentences to improve the quality of their writing pieces.This file contains both a 23-slide PowerPoint and a matching flipbook which students will be able to use as reference for the remainder of the school year. Furthermore, the flipbook is available in both printable and digital format. The PowerPoint contains the following format:Slides 1-4: Introduction to "Sho

Narrative Writing is fun and easy with the step-by-step instructions and mini-lessons included in this unit! It covers personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and biographical narrative writing. It includes full-length mentor texts AND a 41-page writer's notebook with prompts! Digital and Print versions are included!8/20: You're going to adore the awesome update to this resource! Additional mini lessons, editable daily plans to make your life easy, AND a writer's notebook your s

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These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 6th Grade. These will cover your entire year! Reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, 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 standard.·The

This Halloween Writing: Spooky Snapshots mini-unit is perfect for middle school and high school students! They will love writing about the 24 "spooky" setting images that come in this unit.*****************************************************************************My favorite way to use this product is to have students practice writing SNAPSHOTS. A snapshot is when a writer zooms in on a particular setting at a particular moment in time. Then, using lots of sensory details and imagery, writes a

This Narrative writing bundle includes print and digital resources to teach the language and structural components of a Narrative. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are designed to facilit

Narrative Writing – This “print and teach” standards-aligned Personal Narrative Unit contains engaging mini-lessons and activities that will lead your students through the process of writing a strong narrative piece. A mentor text is included along with revising techniques that help students improve their writing! Teachers who have used this resource say- "This was SUPER easy to use and it got even my most discouraged writers writing! Thank you!"- "The content has awesome, just-right lessons.

Looking for the very best way to get your students writing and loving it? Then, you’ve found the perfect resource! This highly engaging and effective set of This or That Writing Prompts includes 202 writing prompt choices on 101 creative handouts. Each This or That Writing Prompt provides students with two choices for showcasing their writing. After reviewing each choice, students can choose to do the “This” activity or the “That” activity. The choices promote engagement, differentiate the

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

Are you looking for a writing lesson you can use to teach your students how to expand their sentences? This PowerPoint lesson focuses on the importance of adding details to sentences in a way that will help their reader visualize the scene or event. This resource contains a 41-slide PowerPoint, a matching companion handout, and SIX worksheets that can be used to provide a follow-up practice opportunity. Furthermore, the companion handout and the worksheet packet is available in both printable fo

NEW LOOK! Get your students motivated to write with MILLION DOLLAR WORDS! When your students are done learning about WORD CHOICE with the step-by-step motivating and color-coding activities, you will see their writing become more detailed and descriptive! DOES YOUR DISTRICT USE DIFFERENT COLORS FOR PARTS OF SPEECH? NO PROBLEM! This zip file also includes an editable Powerpoint for those pages.This mini lesson is also included in the NARRATIVE WRITING UNIT!1. MENTOR TEXT- A list of mentor

Are you looking for minilessons that will help your students improve their writing by expanding, combining, and reducing sentences? This bundle contains THREE writing PowerPoints, sixteen worksheets, and 2 reference charts.The five expansion tips featured in the Expanding Sentences PowerPoint include: Add an ADJECTIVE to describe a noun.Tell WHERE something happened.Tell WHEN something happened.Tell HOW something happened.Tell WHY something happened.(This file contains both printable and digital

Descriptive Writing Activities: If you are looking for resources to help your students become better descriptive writers, this bundle is for you! The "Using Words That Pop" resource includes everything you need to teach descriptive writing. ==========================================================SAVE BY PURCHASING THIS RESOURCE IN A BUNDLE. CLICK BELOW!NARRATIVE WRITING BUNDLE==========================================================INCLUDED IN YOUR PURCHASE:• Powerpoint presentation contai

If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons, try using animated shorts to teach reading and writing skills. This packet contains graphic organizers covering many Common Core skills. $Save$ when you purchase this mega bundle which includes all 6 units.Part 1 – READING AND WRITING Inference and Drawing Conclusions Summarizing Main Idea and Supporting Details Perspective and Point of View Theme Character and Setting Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Problems and So

Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts. Using writing prompts with photos to teach descriptive writing is an effective exercise. Teach your students to use concrete, or sensory, detail with three thought-provoking photos with writing prompts and notes on using sensory detail. This is part of my complete unit on Writing a Narrative Essay.Writing a Narrative Essay - Complete UnitYou might also likeWriting Prompts for Research and Response PapersWriting a Persuasive Essay - Complete UnitWriting a Rese

Hey busy friends,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! By purchasing the units as a bundle you save 20%! In this bundle you will find 7 units with everything you could possibly need to teach a year of 6th grade writing!INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT:- Detailed Daily Lesson Plans | OVER 170 lessons to cover the entire year of writing!- Student Notebook Pages to Glue in Writer's Notebook

Word Choice Task Cards: The focus of this set of 44 task cards is to help students choose colorful, exact words in their writing. The first 32 cards are written in a multiple-choice format. (I designed these in this manner to help my students with the skill of choosing the most exact word from a list. I noticed that my students were eager to use a thesaurus, but then often used a "pick and plunk" method, where they randomly picked a word from the listing, and then plunked it in the sentence! T

This package of descriptive writing activities contains a variety of engaging descriptive writing mini lessons to improve writing for upper elementary and middle school students. Using the descriptive writing graphic organizers and writing prompts provided, students practice word choice and write their own descriptive paragraphs. All resources are classroom tested and include detailed instructions and creative handouts. Very little teacher prep in needed – simply print and teach!While all of the

Hey 6th grade teachers!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 unit is everything you will need to teach a 6th 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 PagesWriter’s Workshop Year at a GlanceRubrics for grading students work {Using Standards Based Grading}Mentor Text ListManagement Ideas and Forms

Are you tired of the same extension projects for independent novel studies or literature circles? Then look no further! This 3D Pop-Up Picture Book Report comes with everything your students will need to create this foldable project. Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will only need plain white paper, scissors, glue and coloring tools to create this engaging project. That’s all! Included in this resource:Step by step instructions that will be easy enough for your s