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13 ready-to-go PowerPoint Lessons, created to cover a 5/10 minute mini lesson during writer's workshop. Kick start your Writing Workshop with management and process mini lessons such as: Our Class ExpectationsBrainstorming Ideas to write aboutPlanningFirst DraftEditingPublishingSkills mini lessons such as: Full StopsCapital LettersWriting paragraphsAnd crafts mini lessons based on the main features of recount writing like: Structuring our recount writingTime ConnectivesDifferentiated writing sam

15 ready-to-go PowerPoint Lessons, created to cover a 5/10 minute mini lesson during writing workshop. Help improve your pupils' poetry writing skills with these 15 engaging and stimulating Mini Lessons. PowerPoints are based on the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model and cover the main features of poetry writing. Planning templates, sample poems and mentor text suggestions also included. Suitable for middle/senior classes.  Mini lessons include: Introducing PoetryShape PoemsBio PoemsAdjecti

Help your students become excellent narrative writers with these engaging and stimulating mini lessons. This bundle includes 17 mini lessons, covering a range of features and crafts found in narrative writing. This bundle is designed to help you get started with this genre- use as a guide or alongside an anchor chart or mentor text for an engaging start to your Writing Workshop. Suitable for 3rd-6th grades/classes. Lessons are simple and straightforward, created to cover a 5/10 minute mini lesso

Help your students become excellent report writers with these engaging and stimulating PowerPoints. This bundle includes 9 mini lessons which cover the main features of report writing. This bundle is designed to help you get started with this genre and includes lessons based on craft and language features of report writing. Lessons are simple and straightforward, created to cover a 5/10 minute mini lesson during writer's workshop. Each mini lesson is designed to help scaffold children's learning

Three fun and engaging experiments based on investigating scientific facts about ourselves. 1. Taking, observing and comparing fingerprints 2. Identifying our dominant eye 3. Finding our blind spot The slides outline equipment needed as well as detailed step-by-step instructions to carry out each experiment.

Three PowerPoints to support your narrative mini lessons on Character Development. Mini Lessons include: Describing a Character- using LAF (Looks like, Acts like, Facts) to describe a characterDynamic and Static CharactersCharacter Emotions: Show Don't Tell- allowing your reader to infer your characters emotionsThis mini lesson is also part of a bundle. Copy and Paste the link below to purchase a set of 17 lessons to support your narrative writing unit. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Produc

This PowerPoint can be used as a minilesson to teach pupils how to use descriptive language in order to show the reader how a character is feeling rather than telling them. Suitable for middle to upper grades. This mini lesson is also part of a bundle. Copy and Paste the link below to purchase a set of 17 lessons to support your narrative writing unit. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Narrative-Writing-Unit-17-Mini-Lessons-5540579

Four short mini lessons to help guide children in writing scene 1-3 of their narratives. Includes tips on getting started and highlights features that should be included in each scene as well as sample plans and a sample Scene 1, 2 and 3. Suitable for all levels and especially suited to pupils who struggle to figure out what to write.

A PowerPoint designed to be used as short Writer's Workshop mini lesson on how to describe a setting in a narrative. Highlights the importance of describing a scene in narrative writing and includes an example of an effective description for pupils. Also includes mentor text suggestions and worksheet to fill in in response to mentor texts. Suitable for all levels. This mini lesson is also part of a bundle. Copy and Paste the link below to purchase a set of 17 lessons to support your narrative wr

A narrative mini lesson focusing on how to describe characters in a story. Explains why it is important to give the reader a description of a character and includes a sample of a character description using LAF (Looks like, Acts like, Facts). This lesson also includes a brief outline of heroes and villains in narratives, mentor text suggestions and a worksheet for students to complete in response to mentor texts. Suitable for all class levels. This mini lesson is also part of a bundle. Copy an

Two mini lessons focusing the structuring and planning a narrative. Lesson 1 introduces narratives and outlines the structure of narrative writing. Mentor text suggestions also included to help enforce children's learning of the structure of a narrative. Lesson 2 outlines the 6 universal plots to help enable children to plan a variety of narratives. Includes a brief description of each type of plot and examples of well known stories that fit into each plot type. Suitable for middle to upper grad

A short mini lesson highlighting the importance of planning a story before beginning to write. Includes an example of a basic planning grid to use for narrative writing. Suitable for all class levels.

A short mini lesson to introduce narrative writing to your class. Focuses on the different types of narratives and the structure of a narrative. Also includes a sample of a whole class narrative plan as well as narrative plans made by pupils. Suitable for 3rd-6th grade. This mini lesson is also part of a bundle. Copy and Paste the link below to purchase a set of 17 lessons to support your narrative writing unit. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Narrative-Writing-Unit-17-Mini-Lessons-5

Help your students become excellent persuasive writers with these engaging and stimulating PowerPoints. This bundle includes 10 mini lessons which cover the main features of persuasive writing. This bundle is designed to help you get started with this genre by introducing persuasive writing, outlining the structure of persuasive writing, providing samples of persuasive texts as well as questions for class discussions. It also includes mini lessons on the main crafts of persuasive writing and les

A short mini lesson focusing on the use of rhetorical questions in persuasive writing. Including a definition of rhetorical question, examples of rhetorical questions and tips on how to incorporate them into persuasive writing. Suitable for 3rd-6th grades.

A short PowerPoint focusing on persuasive sentence starters which can be used as a writer's workshop mini lesson. Includes a list of effective sentence starters for children to use in their writing. Suitable for 3rd-6th grade/class.

A short Writer's Workshop mini lesson based on the structure of persuasive writing. Can be used when introducing this writing genre. Outlines different parts of persuasive texts and includes a guide to laying out persuasive writing, sample persuasive text highlighting various parts of the text and questions for class discussion. Suitable for 3rd-6th class/grade beginning persuasive writing or as a revision mini lesson.

A short Writer's Workshop PowerPoint that can be used as a mini lesson to introduce persuasive writing. Includes an explanation of persuasive writing, a list of different types of persuasive texts, idea for a fun and engaging mentor text with questions for class discussion. Suitable for 3rd-6th grade/class.