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Free Common Core W.4.3 resources
Common Core Writing Rubrics FREE for Grades 1-4
By request, I have created Common Core Writing Rubrics based specifically on the language used in the Common Core Standards to assess the students in their writing. I have included a rubric for each grade level (Grades 1-4) in each of the 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, and Narrative Writing. You can use this as a self-assessment for the students or as a teacher assessment guide. This is the perfect companion to my Common Core Writing Bundles #1 and #2. They
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1st - 4th
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Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer
This free graphic organizer is perfect for planning a narrative writing piece. This resource provides your students with a place to add the characters, setting (when and where), problem, and solution of their narrative. There are also boxes provided to add the plot of the story (beginning, middle, and end). I have included 4 versions of this graphic organizer for you to choose from.
Feedback on this product is greatly appreciated! I value your feedback so I can continue to create fabulous pr
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1st - 5th
5 FREE Halloween Writing Activities | October Writing Lessons | 3rd-5th Grade
This set of 5 highly-engaging Halloween/October writing activities will keep your students engaged during the month of October. Not only will your students have fun writing, they'll be focusing on various writing standards during each activity.These activities have a fun, hands-on element built in as well. The finished projects would make an awesome October bulletin board to showcase your writers. Writing Activities Included:Creative Narrative: "Our Substitute, Frankenstein"Persuasive Writing: "
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Free Narrative Writing Prompt Worksheet
This no prep narrative writing freebie is a must-have for teaching story writing. These narrative writing worksheets are ideal for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade writing lessons or writing centers.Students look at the space pictures and write a response/short story based on the pictures. The prompt comes in 5 versions (K-4th grade) with varying amounts/types of writing lines. This product is a free sample from my Narrative Writing product line. *NOTE - Thi
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K - 4th
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Scrambled Paragraph Writing Activity
Ready-to-use printables! Just copy and go!
This NO PREP activity packet contains an 8-sentence scrambled paragraph that can be put together only one way. Students use transitions and inferential clues to assemble this organized, logical paragraph.
The easy-to-use paragraph structure includes:
-- a title,
-- a topic sentence,
-- three details with support- six (6) sentences, and
-- a closing sentence or clincher.
Students cut out the nine parts of the paragraph, identify the three sentenc
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Free Narrative Writing Prompt for Paragraph and Essay
★★★ FREE PRODUCT! ★★★There are student printables for both paragraph and essay writing. The prompt was chosen to fit both paragraph and essay writing to offer differentiation. Print them front/back and staple!PARAGRAPH SECTION:Page 1: Prewriting Organizer / Rough Draft / ChecklistPage 2: Final Copy / RubricESSAY SECTION: (Prompts work well for 3-5 paragraph essays)Page 1: Prewriting OrganizerPage 2: Rough Draft Page 3: Rough Draft (cont) and checklistPage 4: Final CopyPage 5: Final Copy (co
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3rd - 5th
Free Literacy Centers | Reading Centers | Writing Centers | 2nd-5th ELA Centers
This free set of 2nd-5th grade literacy centers is packed with over 60 pages of engaging resources. These ELA centers are curated based off of common themes and grade-level standards and balanced by informational and literature standards. There are 5 engaging reading and writing centers included in this free set.Color-by-Code: Point of View (2nd/3rd and 4th/5th)Capitalization Task CardsVisual Writing Prompts: Personal NarrativeReading Comprehension Graphic Organizers: Sequencing and Cause &
Teaching Dialogue in Writing {Freebie!}
This free pack is sure to help you through your writing dialogue unit! In this pack you will receive:-Posters outlining the rules to edit and punctuate dialogue correctly -A passage for students to correctly edit and punctuate dialogue, with answer keys-Links to my blog posts on teaching dialogue with additional ideas, lessons, and mentor texts-Student center/group activity and recording sheet to practice putting together a quote with the correct punctuationSee my 2 blog posts at: YoungTeacherLo
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3rd - 6th
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FREE STEM Activity Rosie Revere Engineer Flying Machine Challenge
FREE STEM Challenge! Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom!Engage students with a real world STEM activity where they learn about how engineering works. Students design, build, and test their own flying machine to glide Rosie down a zip line.The Engineering Design Process:In this STEM activity, students follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve. Connect to a Read Aloud: Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea BeatyThis STEM Project
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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March Writing Prompts Free Spring Activities Centers
These engaging March writing prompts will keep your students excited about writing this month! This set contains three writing prompts, one from each genre-opinion, narrative, and informative, plus a narrative writing checklist for your students to use to check their work. Love this? See the full March Writing Pack!March Writing Free Resource Contents:✎Digital Directions and Link for Google Slides™ version✎1 Opinion Writing Prompt✎1 Explanatory Writing Prompt✎1 Narrative Writing Prompt✎1 Student
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May
April Activities Packet - Writing, Math, Word Search, Coloring Page and More!
This April Activities Packet is a great resource for second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders to keep in their binder and work on when they finish an assignment. The April Activities Packet includes: a Spring coloring page, an April word search, an April unscramble, 3 different April writing prompts that are focused on either opinion or narrative writing, and a multiplication color by number. There are answer keys for all activities that require answers.
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2nd - 6th
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FREE Printable Always Do Your Best Dotted Mid-line Lined Paper {EDITABLE!!!}
If you are teaching younger students or students who are struggling with letter formation, this product is for you!
This file will allow you to print your own paper with a dotted mid-line to make writing a breeze! A motivational slogan at the top of the front page reads "Always do your best!"
There's no need to buy costly writing pads anymore! Simply print these sheets one-sided or two-sided and guide your students to writing brilliance!
Enjoy!
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PreK - 6th
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Back to School Writing Activity Prompts for the Beginning of the Year
Kick off back to school season with these activities to introduce your students to writing personal narratives. Included are a personal narrative graphic organizer, student self-editing checklist, and three different writing prompts. Prompts can be glued into writer's notebooks or stapled to lined paper. It also contains a Literature Connection Activity based on the book, Rocket Writes A Story, by Tad Hills to kick off your "What do Good Writers Do?" lesson. CONTENTS:✓I am an Author Illustration
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May
Personal Narrative Rubric
Get great personal narratives from your students by using this free rubric! Rubric categories make it easy for students to see what makes up a personal narrative.Useful for grading, tracking data, and response to intervention.This rubric comes from my Personal Narrative Writing Unit.Click HERE to see my full Personal Narrative Unit that includes:*graphic organizers for easy planning*posters*grammar and vocab integrated*interactive notebook options*writing papers*interactive PowerPointsMore Popul
4th Grade Common Core ELA Standards CHEAT SHEET (ALL standards on 1 PAGE)
Are you tired of flipping through dozens of pages to figure out what a certain Common Core standard is?! I know I was. I decided to make this 1 page "Cheat Sheet" that I keep in the back of my ELA Lesson Plans Binder. It has been extremely useful. I find myself constantly looking at it when I need to know what a certain standard is.
This cheat sheet includes all of the following 4th Grade Standards:
Reading: Literature
Reading: Informational Text
Reading: Foundational Skills
Language
Writing
S
Grades:
4th
Personal Narrative Writing Prompts
20 writing prompts to get your students in the personal narrative state of mind. I use prompts such as these so my students can write daily in their writing journals. Then, when it comes time to write a personal narrative, they have plenty of ideas to choose from.
This document is just a list of ideas. You may wish to type them on to task cards, labels (for interactive journals), or simply display them on your SmartBoard or ActivBoard for students to respond to.
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2nd - 5th
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FREE STEM Activity Catalog and May Recommended Resources
FREE Read Aloud STEM CatalogDownload this free catalog of our two largest bundles of STEM read-alouds and challenges organized by month with clickable links to all of the books and resources. We hope it is a helpful resource for you as you implement Read Aloud STEM with your students!FREE Rosie Revere STEM ChallengeIntegrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom!Engage students with a real-world STEM activity where they learn about how engineering works. Students design, build, and test
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Activities and NGSS Science Lessons Curriculum BUNDLE
Visualize a Story
Visualizing is a powerful tool to help engage learners and improve comprehension and the creation of ideas. This versatile writing activity will help students learn this important skill and can be used with ANY children's picture book. Students love this lesson!You will need to choose a favorite unseen book and 6 artifacts from the book that they will show the students one at a time. (You can also do this without a book and with random items of your choosing.)Example:Artifacts can range from stu
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1st - 4th
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Leveled Reading Comprehension Passage with Questions & Activities | FREE SAMPLE
One week of ready to go lessons for an original Leveled Reading Comprehension Passage! Features comprehension questions, vocabulary, writing, critical thinking, and art activities based upon a high-interest, informational article about tigers. Perfect for your third, fourth, or fifth graders!Plan to set aside about 25 minutes to 1 hour per day over the course of 1 week. You may choose to use this for teaching new skills, guided practice, independent practice, reading groups, easy sub plans, or h
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Free Personal Narrative Writing Activity Structural Elements of a Story
Looking to scaffold the structural elements of a personal narrative? This print and digital resource compatible with Easel helps scaffold the elements of a story: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.Prior to students writing on an open-ended prompt, they will brainstorm and map out the story events on the given templates. Items IncludedPre-writing Planner - students will brainstorm key events of interest on the given prompt. They will then choose
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3rd - 5th
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Winter Writing Activities Prompts and Paper
10 pages of winter themed writing activities and prompts to keep your students engaged! Practice sensory language, opinion writing, narrative writing, conflict and resolution, and descriptive details with these fun pages. Includes the following items:Teacher's notesGraphic organizers for writingSensory language sentence writing promptsSensory language paragraph writing promptsDescriptive details character promptsConflicts and resolution pageOne narrative writing assignmentOne opinion writing ass
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Christmas Math Activity and Writing Bundle
FREE Character Traits, Sensory Details, and Plot Structure Anchor Charts
These three anchor charts are designed to guide students when brainstorming fictional stories. There are three anchor charts available in color and B&W. The charts help students identify personality traits for a characters, develop a setting through sensory details, and create a plot structure based on identifying rising action, sensory details, and character thoughts and actions. This product is part of a Create a Story Bundle! See the details for each product below:✎Create a CharacterCrea
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Roll A Scary Story - Creative Writing Halloween - 7,776 Possibilities
Roll A Scary Story - Creative Writing HalloweenStory prompts and ideas for a scary story. Engage your class with Roll A Story where chance plays a part in creating unique characters, places, times and problems! There are 7,776 unique stories possible using this resource.This resource includes a PDF file. I may upload a editable PDF template in the future.Stock background (wood) was sourced from Background vector created by upklyak - www.freepik.com
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2nd - 6th
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Spring Activity | Finish the Story Creative Writing Prompts Freebie
These finish the story writing prompt papers will help bring writing to life during the spring season! These no-prep narrative writing prompts are perfect for easy writing activities, writing centers, writer's workshop, early finisher activities, daily journaling, morning work and more! These prompts are great for first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade students! Students will love using the story starter prompts to creatively write an ending to their own story.⭐Save 30% with the
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Finish the Story Narrative Writing Prompts Seasonal Bundle
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