Libby's Firsties

This product is a fun way for your students to practice persuasive writing! Students will choose a pet, brainstorm persuasive reasons why the pet should be adopted, and then write a persuasive piece about the pet. This set includes three different brainstorming/planning pages and five different options for writing paper. A fun suggestion: contact your local animal shelter or find them on petfinder.com. Print out photos of pets needing adopted and have your students choose one to write about. Ma

There are many uses for the above resources. Get students excited about diving into character traits and feelings using EMOJIS!! Students can choose which emoji best represents characters in a story. Use the trading cards on pages 2-4 for cooperative learning activities! For example, make multiple copies of the cards and place them in a bag. Students will choose a card out of a bag to complete after listening to a read aloud. Then have students mix-pair-share to explain their thinking.

Students can use the graphic organizers to identify the actions of a main character and the reason for those actions. Complete while listening to a read aloud or on their own after an independent read. There is clipart to match each season of the school year!

This product includes response organizers for 9 different Christmas stories. Each organizer includes an excerpt from the text and a question that can be answered directly from the excerpt. The student will practice restating the question as a part of their answer, while writing their answer in a complete sentence. They will cite their evidence by underling the portion of the text that supports their answer. This follows the 'RAC' portions of the RACE strategy for responding to text related quest

This product allows your students to choose one of the influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement to research and write about. Students can choose from Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, or Ruby Bridges. A research organizer is included for students to gather and organize facts. Students will then publish their writing onto the informative writing template. Text features and a craft are included for students to complete a fun project using a file folder. Examples are included in the pack.

This narrative plan page will help young authors bring their stories to life by helping them remember to make their characters move, talk, and feel! It also helps them to include an intro and closing in their beginning, middle, and end.

Use this organizer to help students brainstorm ways to bring their characters to life in their stories. You can also use this for students to record ways other authors bring their characters to life in read-alouds or other student writing.