K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus
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Are you looking for writing interactive notebooks to help your students plan their opinion writing, narrative writing, “how to” writing, informational writing, or paragraph writing? Are you looking for a way to make your writing lessons more engaging? These hands-on activities are perfect for helping students with the all important planning stage of writing. They are interactive, which is perfect for reluctant writers. Say goodbye to lined paper and worksheets. THIS is the way to engage your writers! The pre-writing stage is such a crucial first step in the writing process. It's so important for students to brainstorm and organize their thoughts and ideas before they start writing. Each of the interactive notebooks in this resource allow students to effectively plan and organize their ideas in a systematic way before beginning to create their writing piece. ⭐ What is included in this set of brainstorm interactive notebooks for narrative, opinion, how-to & informational writing? There are 20 notebooks: 5 narrative writing interactive notebooks (e.g., characters, setting, problem, solution, beginning, middle, end) 5 opinion writing interactive notebooks (e.g., opinion, reasons, examples) 5 informational writing interactive notebooks (e.g., facts, supporting details) 2 'how to' writing interactive notebooks (e.g., steps, first, then, next, last) 3 paragraph writing interactive notebooks (e.g., topic sentence, supporting details, closing sentence) ⭐ These writing interactive notebooks have lots of uses within your writing lessons - Some of them are ideal for the brainstorming, planning, prewriting stage Some of them are great for first drafts or short writing pieces Some of them teach certain concepts (such as paragraph writing) ⭐ This resource has differentiation! Yep, that's right. You can give the more simple 2 part notebooks to some students and 5 part notebooks to others. For example, one student can just be sharing their opinion and one reason, while another can be sharing their opinion, three reasons, and a conclusion! Even if you want to give all of your students the same notebook, it's great that they increase in difficulty. At the beginning of the school year or writing unit, you can start with an easier notebook. You can then progress through to more complicated ones. ⭐ These interactive writing notebooks are ideal for: Whole group writing lessons Writer's workshop (the prewrite stage of the writing process) Small group work (literacy or writing centers) Activity for a sub There are 20 notebooks that cover so many writing genres! This is bang for your buck as this resource can be used ALL year long! FYI - An instruction page (with pictures) is included so that you and your students know how to create the notebooks. These activities can be printed on colored paper or white paper. Cute clip art is included for students to color in. Enjoy this resource! ⭐ Don't forget to follow my store for more awesome products and rate this product for your TPT credits :) ⭐ Let's Connect! Pinterest Instagram Facebook ⭐ You might like my other writing resources: Lined Paper With Picture Boxes And Borders | Writing Templates Writing Graphic Organizers
In this blog post you will find five mini lesson, in the order I would teach them, for your next informational writing unit. These mini lessons have been created based on standards and using common struggles students face with this type of writing.
K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus
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Hey all! I get emailed daily about my Writer’s Workshop Units. They’re available in my TpT Store for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade! Search below for some of the more Frequently Asked Questions I recieve, like “Can I see a more thorough sample of the units and daily lessons?” or “Will this work if I...
K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus
Ring in the new year with these January Writing Prompts! Fun, educational, and imagination building ideas for Opinion, Narrative, and Informative writing.
Discover the various ecosystems around the world with this cute ecosystem display hanger! It's quick to assemble and a great way to review with your students. In these hangers, students illustrate or glue in the corresponding image to the description card. Then they write facts or other important information in the description card and glue them together to form an accordion-like display. File Type PDF (Acrobat) Document File Be sure that you have an application to open this file type before downloading and/or purchasing.
Awesome Spring Writing Prompts for First Grade. Narrative, Informative, and Opinion Writing organizers and draft pages included in fun spring themes.
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Do you teach your first and second-grade students to learn how to write a paragraph? In this post, I share ideas, lessons, and activities for students to learn how to write their own paragraphs in a structured way. Before I dive in, I wanted to let you know you can watch or listen to all […]
Check out examples of Kindergarten informational writing and the nonfiction mentor texts that inspired their writing. This post also includes a way to support struggling Kindergarten informational text writers.
It's the middle of your writing block and you sidle up to a student to have a writing conference. And it goes great. You feel like you made a difference with that kid. You feel like you accomplished something. But then you start doing the math... "Let's see, I just spent 8 minutes with this student, so at this rate it'll only take me... hmmm... 9,000 years to meet with everyone." It quickly gets overwhelming and you may start wondering, why even bother? Holding one-to-one writing conferences with students is a really effective way to help them grow, but conferences that last 8-10 minutes a pop just aren't sustainable. Even 5-minute writing conferences are tough. So are 4 minute writing conferences. 2 minutes. That's where we want to be. Now, before you start rolling your eyes telling me you'll never get anything out of a two-minute conference, hang on. Let's just for a second assume that you CAN have a meaningful, productive writing conference with a student in two minutes. Okay? If that's the case, what would that allow? If we had two-minute conferences with a class of 30 students, it will only take us four 15-20 minute writing sessions to meet with every student one-to-one. Less than a week to see everybody! That's motivating. Now I need to prove to you that two minutes is enough. That with two minutes, we can scooch a student writer forward. So let's dig into how to have a worthwhile two-minute writing conference. We'll break our time into three sections: Learn, Show, and Push. I want you to keep in mind this isn't meant to be a formula, but I also recognize that it can be really helpful to see exactly how those two minutes might get filled. So let's meet with one of our students, Leroy, and see how a two-minute conference might run. "Hi Leroy." And boom... our two minutes have begun. With the first thirty seconds or so, we LEARN. We check our notes for the focus of recent conferences with Leroy. (We do this quickly, like 5 seconds quick: Okay, I met with Leroy about leads and setting details recently.) We orient ourselves to what Leroy is working on right now in his writing. (We do this quickly, like 5 seconds quick: Okay, Leroy looks to be drafting his personal narrative about losing his gerbil.) We scan a chunk of Leroy's writing, preferably what he's been writing today and/or yesterday, looking for something to focus on with him: We're looking for progress related to the focus of one of our recent conferences. (In Leroy's case, we look at his lead and how he describes the setting. We might also ask Leroy how he's doing with one of these skills.) Do we need to revisit one of these skills? Or, Can we build off one of these skills, either by taking the skill to a more sophisticated level or by choosing a related skill to focus on? We're also open to a glaring need, unrelated to a recent conference, that we think should be a priority to address and therefore trumps the skills we were focusing on before. What if nothing jumps out at us? As a default, we'll use the writing skill/strategy we taught in a recent whole-group minilesson as the focus for this writing conference. With the next sixty seconds or so, we SHOW. This is the meat of the conference: the teaching part, the coaching part, the modeling part. We've chosen something to focus on, so let's do it! With Leroy, let's imagine we noticed him describing his setting, and we think he's ready to take it to the next level. So we're going to first show Leroy what we noticed: "Let's look at this little part you wrote here, Leroy. I see that near the beginning of your piece you wrote two details about the setting, one about being in your house and one about it being a Saturday morning. I can tell you are trying to think about that part of your writing. Then we model something new for Leroy: "So Leroy, when writers are trying to establish their setting, they do what you did: they describe the place and the time. But to really be successful, they use sensory details that really help the reader imagine the setting. For example, I see that most of your narrative so far is taking place in your bedroom. So we could try adding another setting detail that can help the reader picture your bedroom. If it was my bedroom, I might write, "The stench of my dirty socks strewn all over my bedroom floor almost knocked me over." Do you see how that helps the reader put themselves there in my room? What sense did I use with that extra detail? With the last 30 seconds or so, we PUSH. We transition from showing and modeling to giving the student an action step. "So Leroy, think about your own bedroom and how it was on that morning when your story took place. I want you to try adding a sensory detail that will help bring the setting alive for your reader." Now we feel out the student. Dots might be connecting. Or blank stares might be forming. Or anything in between: If Leroy gets started right away, we observe and simply be a sounding board for him. If Leroy struggles to get started, we might make a suggestion or ask a leading question to help him get the ball rolling. "I added a detail involving smell. You could do that too, or think about sounds, feels, or specific sights." If Leroy stares blankly at his writing, not sure what to do, that's okay. He might not be ready to make this jump, or maybe he does understand but this particular situation is just stumping him. Again, we might make a suggestion or ask a leading question. Depending on the student and the situation, we don't necessarily need to stay and continue to watch the student work. We leave the student with a closing push: "As you continue writing, Leroy, and your setting moves, I want you to think about those extra sensory details here and there that you can add, okay?" Our two minutes have ended. We make a quick note about the conference and move on. Here's a little chart that sums up the three parts of our two-minute conference: I highly encourage you to get out your phone, set it on the student's desk, and have the stopwatch running during the conference. It's the only way to really keep the timing a priority. There will be conferences when you think, this student needs more of my time, I can't just whisk along and move on here. I get it, that's understandable. Just remember though, if you do that very often, you're going to be right back where you started in this whole thing. Utilizing this two-minute outline with your students is one key component of a practical and effective system of writing conferences. But what about keeping all the interruptions at bay? And what about other types of interactions like strategy groups and check-ins? And what about the forms on which to keep records? And how does this change the big picture of my writing block? What does a week of independent writing really look like? Don't worry! Head over to my blog where I get deep into ALL of those questions in my post, How to Have Successful Writing Conferences with Student Writers. You can pick up all the forms I use there, too!
K-1 NONFICTION WRITING My nonfiction writing unit is here! This is the perfect way to introduce kindergarten and first grade students to what informational writing is. This unit is so engaging for students because it uses real life photographs and animals. We discus
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Print this free kindergarten assessment pack to use as end of the year testing for your kindergarten students. This is a great way to see where your students are at, and find any areas for development.
Teach your students how to build simple sentences with this fun activity!
Procedural writing or "How-to" is one of my favorite units! Read this post to discover some fantastic mentor texts to use in your classroom!
Students will love learning about a new animal as they create an informational report using this helpful guide!
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Teaching the writing process? Try involving students kinesthetically. Play Doh can work for big kids, too! My high school students absolutely love this writing analogy that walks them through each stage of the writing process as if they were sculptors crafting a masterpiece. Differentiate your instr
Students can use these guided notes to practice informational writing. The RACE strategy is used to answer text-dependent questions. The RACE acronym standards for the following: R - Restate the question A - Answer the question C - Cite text evidence E - Explain: Give a clear explanation for your response. Students are prepared with guided notes to fill-in-the blanks during the lesson, examples, sentence starters, and practice space for writing. This resource is great for students who may require additional support in writing well thought-out, detailed responses to TDQs-- including our English-Languager Learners!
Great tips for getting started teaching expository writing to your third and fourth graders.
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Simple tips for improving writing in your second or third grade classroom. These tips are a must if you want better writers!
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Generally, when we think of book reports, we think of fiction reading response. However, nonfiction book report templates serve equally as important of a purpose for digging deep into nonfiction texts. Book reports are such
