This is a great writing assignment to teach your kids about writing expository/procedural articles. It is particularly powerful for students that always default to writing stories (or English Language Learners ELL {English Second Language}), even when the topic or prompt doesn't warrant a story. It's also an excellent activity to hone all your students' editing skills, and polish their digital organization and presentation skills on electronic documents because they'll be writing on familiar topics, which makes this a very accessible assignment for all students.

Your students will choose their favorite activity and create a recipe for doing it! They'll write a short descriptive paragraph explaining the activity and/or why it's fun, list the ingredients, and then write a procedure for carrying it out.

This download includes detailed instructions, a well laid out exemplar, and a marking rubric. Your students will need access to Google Docs or Microsoft Word.

Check out my other great English Language Arts writing resources!

• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/News-Article-Writing-Series-of-Lessons-and-Assignments-Unit-Plan-Newspaper-5551732 An entire unit bundle. 2-3 weeks of no prep lessons and assignments. All you need to make your students into excellent news writers!
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/News-Article-Pre-Writing-Lesson-Plan-Analysis-Summary-Writing-Organization-5533749 - How news articles are organized. Perfect news article pre-writing activity.
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Coronavirus-COVID-19-News-Article-Writing-Assignment-and-Lesson-Plan-5362693 - A bestseller news writing assignment with detailed lesson plan.
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Australia-Wildfires-News-Article-Writing-Assignment-and-Lesson-5533686
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Assignment-Write-a-Recipe-for-a-Fun-Activity-5314812 A fun writing activity that's great for building awareness of genre (and perfect for English Language Learners).
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Synonym-and-Antonym-Adjectives-Digital-Paint-Swatch-Project-5246510 An engaging, effective, and fun mini-project for students to learn about synonyms, antonyms, and adjectives.

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