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This lesson is designed as a springboard to begin discussions of different types of elaboration techniques and strategies. A mnemonic device is introduced to help students recall seven different types of elaboration. Students will receive an overview, examples, and photographic descriptions. The lesson is fully scripted and includes “Teacher to Teacher Talk” for further clarification. Key words: how-to, action, setting, character, object, moment, emotion, Minecraft, The Giving Tree, stick,

Do your students have difficulty giving credit where credit is due? When they do try to cite their sources, does it sound contrived? This power point has several examples of how the authors of some Time For Kids articles cite their sources. With the push for students to write in argumentative mode and use text evidence, this is a critical skill to teach even in the elementary grades.

This power point is a whopper! There are 57 slides and 4 mentor texts (3 from the CCSS Exemplars). The sequential set of lessons spans 5 days. Each day goes through the entire Writer’s Workshop model of mini lesson, mentor text, modeled writing with scripted “Think Alouds”, independent writing time, and a sharing session with CCSS Standards as questioning and thinking stems. The notes for each slide contain the CCSS Standards which correlate. Keywords: Busch Gardens, Sheikra, roller coaste

This lesson uses a mnemonic device based on the letters OSCAR to help students develop a plan/outline/skeleton/draft for writing a character elaboration. Students are guided through the process with help from Oscar the Grouch, Sponge Bob, and from THE LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY: THE STORM by Cynthia Rylant (a selection from the CCSS 2-3 Band of Exemplar Text). Scaffolding, “Teacher to Teacher Talk”, and a fully scripted power point make this an easy lesson for both children and teachers. Key Words: w

This Microsoft Word document contains over 430 writing prompts designed for elementary students. The prompts are written to elicit responses in narrative, expository, and informational modes. Many writing topics/”big ideas” can be mixed and matched to create even more writing situations. Also, the document can be converted to an excel file that can be sorted any way you like. This set contains FCAT and FCAT style writing prompts.

This sequential lesson set is designed to mirror the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) and/or PARRC style text based written response. Includes student and teacher text set and prompts, daily craft lessons, examples of methods of reading strategies and text coding, full piece model writing piece, and much more! Student Prompt: The sources talked about seashells. Write an informative essay in which you give information about the uses of seashells. Teacher Prompt: The sources talked about house

This lesson uses Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy as a model text for the children to use as a way to experience how authors use parentheses to add more information to their writing. Students will determine where and how Jane O’Connor uses parentheses to hug that extra information. Included is a model writing piece about RIF (Reading is Fundamental) through a moment/action elaboration strategy while using parentheses as the featured author’s craft. The power point lesson includes the think alo

This powerpoint and lesson are inspired by Roz Linder's book, The Big Book of Details. The powerpoint walks you and your students through a visual and deeper understanding of how authors use nuances in word choice to show: voice, paraphrasing, comprehension, insight... CCSS L.3.5

This lesson set was designed to be used to model text based writing by using a similar text set for student and teacher. Aligned with Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS) and Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or any CCSS or PARRC style assessment. Student Prompt: Write an article in which you give your opinion about whether Burmese pythons should be removed from Florida.

LAFS Side by Side is an excel file with the kindergarten through fifth grade Language Arts Florida Standards literally side by side. As a teacher, it is helpful to know the standards above and below your grade level. As a resource teacher, it is IMPERATIVE that you know the standards for the whole school. If you are unsure of which grade level standard your students are able to demonstrate with proficiency, just slide across the list until you find the standard that matches. Sort, filter, an

Jennifer Serravallo’s Reading Strategies BookSupporting Comprehension in Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) and Idea(s)This document was designed to streamline Serravallo's work to target strategies just for nonfiction. Reading the text set for assessments such as the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) is a huge issue for many students. Complex text is being presented and the old standard, "The main idea is usually the first or the last sentence in the paragraph" just doesn't work. As ELA

This lesson set was designed to be at the low end of the 4-5 Lexile band and toward the upper end of the word count band based on the test specs for the Florida Standards Assessment. It was written to hit both ELA standards and Social Studies standards for the state of Florida. The analysis provides the teacher with the opportunity to make a choice for which text to present based on different features of the text. Prompt 1: Your class is presenting a living wax museum so that visitors can learn

This is an informational text about Hispanic Heritage Month. Students are to read, code the text for main ideas, and write to respond to the follow Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or CCSS, PARRC, AIR style prompt: Writing Prompt: Our school is having a Fiesta to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Write an informative essay to discuss why studying about the Hispanic culture is important. Also, included in this lesson set is a list of Hispanic Heritage related books as well as Social Studies s

This power point explains how to start and manage using "The Dictation Game" in your elementary classroom. The Dictation Game is a proven exercise that helps reinforce and teach basic conventions of writing: capitalization, penmanship, punctuation, high frequency words, etc.

A powerpoint presentation for students who need to add/revise their writing to include links and transitional devices to add reasons to their essay. Mentor text featuring Link and Zelda characters to provide examples of this writers' craft in an engaging and student friendly manner.

Need to get your students engaged and excited to take the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) for 4th or 5th grade text based writing? Super catchy rewritten lyrics remind students to use writing strategies to elaborate!

The text set and prompt (Musical Instruments) is from Dade County. The additional text set and prompt are ones that I wrote to be paired with this piece. Either piece is appropriate for student use. They are both written in the text based writing style that aligns with the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) and other assessments such as PARRC, AIR, etc. The intent was to use one text set and prompt for student use and the other for the teacher to use as a model. This way the teacher can model te

This set is designed to mirror the Florida Standards Assessment sampler nicknamed "Light Pollution". Features a student and a teacher text set and prompt, Language Arts Florida Standards (FSA), PARRC style writing, daily mentor text and writing craft lessons, teacher model and sample student response.

This document was designed to help map out a year of writing. Broken down into 9 weeks sections, featuring Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS), and Webb's Depth of Knowledge. Follow this structure to introduce and reinforce the hardest standards first and focus on what matters most as far as the text-based writing for the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or any PARRC style test. An additional page shows the thinking behind the path. Using the Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) and the

Student Prompt:Write an informational essay explaining the ways humans endanger and help preserve the coral reef ecosystem. Teacher Prompt:Write an essay in which you give information explaining the advantages and disadvantages of keeping chickens. This five day sequential lesson set features access to student and teacher text sets, fully scripted think alouds, daily craft focus with mentor text, and a full modeled writing piece to share with students. Aligns with Florida Standards Assessme