This is a fun way to practice opinion writing, reasoning paragraphs, descriptive details, and transition words. Students can brainstorm the different types of foods they enjoy and would love to have in a Thanksgiving meal. This is also a great way for teachers to model how they want students to lay out their ideas and formulate paragraphs based on a writing prompt and rubric.
3rd - 7th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing-Essays
Fun and easy-to-follow March and St. Patrick's Day activity for writing and expanding sentences. Students can brainstorm and list things they wish to have and create sentences telling why. Provide examples of how to expand the sentences with more descriptions, adjectives, clauses, and phrases.
This is a great visual for students learning to provide evidence for their answers. Students can practice using these prompts as part of their answers or in their writing, and learn how to set up evidence properly. This visual can be made into a poster for the classroom or a handout for students to keep in their binder.