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This graphic organizer is to be used with NJ (or any state) CCCS 2.RL.3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges or NJCCCS 3.RL.3: Describe characters in a story (eg. their traits, motivations or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. It can be translated to use with any book or fiction writing.

NJ CCCS RL 2.2, SL2.2 Using fairytales or folktales, match cause to effect, and vice versa. This graphic organizer uses Cinderella, already a well-known text, to match causes and effects and effects to causes. Some of the information is already there, the students must complete either the cause or the effect in writing. Any classic version of the Cinderella story could be used to read to your class and complete this activity.

This graphic organizer corresponds with NJ CCCS: RL 2.2 Recount stories including fables and folktales from diverse cultures and determine their central message, lesson or moral. This can be used with any variation of standard stories that might be read: Little Red Riding Hood and Lon Po Po, Cinderella and The Rough Face Girl/Yeh Shen/Adelita. Any two stories can be used to complete this comparison.

Included in this packet are 8 total pages: 4 one-page nonfiction articles (birds, the Titanic, Jupiter and Barack Obama), and 4 pages to practice various nonfiction strategies (fact/opinion, main idea and details, etc). These are second to third grade level reading passages.

This graphic organizer will assist students to write a short constructed response to explain why an author chose to write the book. It is based on the acronym PIE- Persuade, Inform or Entertain. It is a stepping stone to writing a full individual response to explain author's purpose.

Included in this packet is a poster defining cause and effect, a partially-completed graphic organizer to use with students for general practice, and a cause and effect game to play with a whole class. CCCS 2.RI.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, which includes cause and effect.

This graphic organizer will assist you in reviewing when contractions are used in writing and how they are properly written into a word. This is not intended as a first-time teaching tool, but rather a follow-up practice sheet. It contains descriptions and examples of contractions with practice changing two words into a contraction and changing the contraction back into two words. It also contains a description of the use of singular possessives and how to put an apostrophe "s" on the word, as w

This is a graphic organizer used to help students write a nonfiction paragraph on a selected weather topic. The purpose is for the student to combine their ideas about how certain types of weather affect their lives with factual information about that particular type of weather. It also combines the skill of writing a main idea, supporting details and a closing sentence.

This is a basic structure for writing a paragraph comparing two folktales or fairytales that are similar, such as Little Red Riding Hood and Lon Po Po or Cinderella and Yeh Shen. It gives sentence starters for each of three comparisons in order to provide a starting point for writing a paragraph.

These are additional Daily 5 Math pages for Writing in Math. This set includes addition and subtraction up to the hundreds for place value. There are some review questions on missing information as well.

NJ CCCS 2.RL.5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces a story and how the ending concludes the action. Nj CCCS 2.RL.7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting or plot. This particular graphic organizer has students listing characters, setting, problem and solution and choosing an illustration from the story to write a sentence showing how the illustration

This graphic organizer is intended to help students to write a reading response. It includes 4 sentence starters for students to complete.

This is a graphic organizer to help students write a book review. It requires them to write story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution and events), as well as why they liked the book.

This graphic organizer is intended to be used independently as a reading response sheet. Students complete the basic elements of a story (characters, setting, events, problem, solution) and write what they liked about the story.

This is a plan for second graders to organize their ideas for writing as part of a unit on fractured fairy tales. The students will use this to think about a fairy tale and how they would like to change it. It is intended to help them write their own fairy tale modeled after a real one.