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This document will help guide your students through the research process from selecting a topic all the way to their final copy. All you need to do is print a copy and hand it out! The students will brainstorm ideas, narrow down their topic choices, select 1 topic, write 3 questions about their topic, do research, write a rough draft then a final copy! **GRADING RUBRIC INCLUDED!! Bibliography template and how to also included! How to: * Choose your topic (1-2 days) * Select subtopics for your

If you're following the Lucy Calkins model for personal narrative writing for Grade 5. This product is perfect for you! I found it easier to highlight some of the lessons components ahead of time to recreate in handout or chart form. This way they were ready to go when the lesson started! All of the items in this pack are to be incorporated throughout the teaching of Personal Narrative writing for Grade 5. This product includes checklists, charts, handouts etc... It's organized based on which

This pack is a complete pack for how to write a biography from start (selecting a person) to finish (final copy)! It also includes: * A grading rubric * How to write a Bibliography using MULTIPLE resources: It explains how to record an interview, book, internet website, magazine or newspaper article * graphic organizers for recording research * organizers and suggestions for how to organize your research into paragraph form. * This pack gives an approx. break-down of how many days each step sho

Need some creative new ways to have your students write their own expository writing pieces?? This document will give you a few organizers that could also be used as story starters! **3 Graphic Organizers - Add your 5 senses - Add descriptive details - Bubble maps - Chart organizers - Story starters In my class we enjoy writing a few different but creative paragraphs on the same topic. This particular document focuses on expository writing. Once the students complete a few paragraphs, they ca

Black History Biographies This pack is a COMPLETE research packet guide and includes ALL directions and worksheets. All you need to do is print and handout! Each step of the biography research process has STEP BY STEP detailed directions, step specific graphic organizers. The steps are below. (20 pages) INCLUDES A GRADING RUBRIC and how to write a bibliography How to: * Choose your person (1-2 days) * Selection and book search (3-5 days) * Find your research (5-10 days) * Organize your rese

This can be used for independent reading with the book "A Bad Case of Stripes," by David Shannon. What I do in my classroom is provide several baskets with several copies of these books and a folder with the activity sheets. This way, at their own pace, my students can select a book and work on it after they've completed any assigned work. These activities use the skills and strategies needed for the state literacy assessments! This activity sheet can be glued into their reading notebook or k

This pack includes activities for: Before Reading During Reading After Reading All for independent reading for grades 3-5. I organize the books in baskets and place these activity sheets in folders with the reading books. My students can take a book and an activity sheet to work on when they are finished with their daily class work. This can be an ongoing activity which will prevent those questions, "I'm done, what should I do now?" There are activities for four books. The books are: A bad ca

As teachers, we're always trying to help our students become better readers. We work so hard with them during guided, independent, or even small group reading. Here's a quick way to give your student's new goal while you're reading with them! Just peel off the label and go! This sheet has three different types of labels for identifying PLOT AND SETTING: I will identify Plot and Setting by using post-it notes to stop and jot changes in the setting and main events. I will identify Plot and

As teachers, we're always trying to help our students become better readers. We work so hard with them during guided, independent, or even small group reading. Here's a quick way to give your student's new goal while you're reading with them! Just peel off the label and go! This sheet has three different types of labels for Reading Comprehension: I will improve my comprehension by using post-it notes to write down WHO the story is about and WHAT are the characters doing at the end of each ch

As teachers, we're always trying to help our students become better readers. We work so hard with them during guided, independent, or even small group reading. Here's a quick way to give your student's new goal while you're reading with them! Just peel off the label and go! This sheet has three different types of labels for Making Inferences: I will Make Inferences by connecting text evidence, including illustrations, diagrams, etc., with prior knowledge and personal experiences. I will m

As teachers, we're always trying to help our students become better readers. We work so hard with them during guided, independent, or even small group reading. Here's a quick way to give your student's new goal while you're reading with them! Just peel off the label and go! This product has four sheets of different types of labels for using higher order thinking skills such as monitoring comprehension, applying knowledge, generating questions, rereading and making connections: I will apply k