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Writing-expository Common Core RL.4.1 resources
Writing Interactive Notebooks: Writing Activities {Interactive Writing Notebook}
Writing Interactive Notebooks ~ Sentences and Paragraphs for Common Core 3-8. This Writing Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT Best Sellers for Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text.Get the *original* Interactive Writing Notebooks - Over 30,000 copies sold!This resource is now part of an interactive notebook bundle. Find the bundle here.***********************************************Each of the 26 lessons includes a photo of the finished product, teacher’s notes, teacher’s
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
WRITING SKILLS Practice & Assess: Grades 4-5 No Prep Printables
**Grades 4-5 Version** Level AThe topics/skills included in this huge worksheet packet are the same as in my Interactive Writing Notebook. Scroll down for a list of lessons and topics.Purchase the differentiation bundle here.For each of the 26 lessons, there is a 20-item practice followed by a 20-item assessment. The items on the assessment are similar in content and in format to the items on the practice so that your students are prepared for each assessment. Please note that some lessons are n
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Practice & Assess WRITING SKILLS: Differentiation BUNDLE!
The Castle in the Attic Novel Study Digital + Printable Book Unit
Are you looking for an all-in-one unit for The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop? Look no further. This comprehensive digital + printable unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, constructed response writing prompts with organizers for planning, and language arts lessons. Lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 5–6.✨ DIGITAL RESOURCESThis novel study includes links to digital resources. Boom Learning is used for multiple-choice, short answer, and f
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5th - 6th
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Text Evidence Reading Passages, Sentence Starters, and Finding & Citing Bundle
You'll love using the Text Evidence Reading Passages & Evidence Frames to help teach students how to identify evidence from a text and then cite text evidence as proof. Perfect for informational text and literature reading comprehension, each resource targets finding text evidence and helps students with constructing a response. Citing text evidence can be a challenge, but the proof frames are structured to help simplify this essential reading and writing skill. Click the preview for more de
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4th - 7th
Book Reports BUNDLE to Use with ANY Book
56 Book Reports to use with ANY Book, both Fiction and Nonfiction! Using this book report BUNDLE in your classroom will benefit your students' reading comprehension skills:Looking for digital book reports for distance learning? Check out my Digital Book Reports Google Drive Edition.FICTION:Story elementsMaking connections to textQuestioning the textAuthor's purposeCompare & contrastProblem & solution / conflict & resolutionBeginning, Middle & EndSummaryCharacterizationSequencin
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1st - 4th
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Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fables unit offers a complete reading, writing, speaking, and listening experience! It includes lesson plans, 10 stories with comprehension questions, 7 plays, writing, and compare-contrast activities. You’ll have everything you need to teach your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Open the preview to take a closer look at the components. Lesson PlansThree weeks of ELA lesson plans are ready to go! You may use them to guide your study of fables. (Open the bonus preview to see the plans
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3rd - 5th
Paired Passages Writing Center: Citing Text Evidence in Essays - TEACH Method
Do your students need to cite evidence across paired or multiple texts? The writing center includes high-interest paired passages on 3 reading levels for both opinion and informative writing, as well as other resources to use in a center and as references in student writing folders.This unit has everything needed to use the TEACH method for writing essays with text evidence. The TEACH method helps students add important and relevant facts to their essays. The steps are easy to remember, and it
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4th - 6th
Earth Day Opinion Writing Mini-Unit: Lessons, Writing Templates, Writing Rubric
Try out this mini opinion writing unit out this year on Earth Day! Teachers will love the done-for-you lesson plans and students will enjoy reading a variety of high-interest texts that help teach conservation.This writing unit is perfect to tie into the spring season while still addressing critical writing skills like researching, using graphic organizers and templates to help students arrange what they've learned about Earth's conservation into a strong opinion writing piece.Students will exp
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3rd - 5th
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a favorite novel study for students. Use this Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe fantasy literature unit to cover a wide range of reading skills. My favorite activity in this product is the Narnia map activity. Students use the text to identify 9 key locations. Based on textual evidence, the students map Narnia and the route Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan followed while in Narnia. Students stain a piece of ledger sized paper with tea bags the
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4th - 6th
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Text Evidence Proof Frames for Reading Comprehension for All Subject Areas
The Text Evidence Proof Frames are easy to use in any subject area. Your students will be able to find text evidence, cite it, and use the evidence in a response paragraph. Works for fiction and nonfiction text. This versatile resource offers easy differentiation with multiple versions of the the text evidence proof frames as well as the paragraph writing frames. The Text Evidence Proof frames will help your students construct a response using evidence from a text. The frames are laid out for si
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4th - 8th
Holes: 40 Journal Prompts (Distance Learning)
Holes is a wonderful story of a boy who goes through great lengths to help a friend in a difficult environment.Like this book?***Save 25%!***This product is also available in a power pack containing both journal prompts and quizzes!Holes by Louis Sachar Power Pack ***40 Journal Prompts Description:→ Assess student comprehension→ Requires students to use important skills: summarizing, characterization, cause and effect, figurative language, author's purpose, vocabulary strategies, and personal re
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4th - 7th
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST TASK CARDS
48 Compare and Contrast Task Cards, PowerPoint and Google Slides. Perfect for distance learning and Google Classroom!2 products for the price of one!24 reading response task cards: 24 compare contrast passages and questions24 comparative writing prompt task cards (using prior knowledge).Zip Includes:Task Card Set 1: 24 Compare and Contrast Passages with Reading Response Question.Task Card Set 2: 24 Comparative Writing Prompts (using prior knowledge).48 PowerPoint Slides48 Google SlidesStudent An
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: ELA TASK CARDS BUNDLE: Grades 3, 4, 5, 6
Main Idea Graphic Organizers | Main idea and supporting detail
You'll find the main idea graphic organizer you need right here! All graphic organizers can be seen in the preview. This is a collection of over 15 printable and digital graphic organizers for main idea and supporting details in reading and writing.Having a variety of graphic organizers allows you to: ...choose the organizer that best fits the expository writing project you're doing....choose the organizer that best fits the informational text you're reading....give students a choice of which or
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Main Idea and Supporting Detail Bundle
The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore Novel Study Unit
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups. The second PDF has all student pages with teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples.The Bread Winner is a high interest novel study for upper elementary students. After gathering background information about the Depression, students identi
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Depression Era Novel Study Literature Bundle
Let It Begin Here! | American Revolution | Lexington and Concord
Teach your students about the Shot Heard Round the World and the start of the American Revolution while working on reading and writing standards. This print and go resource is a perfect addition to your Colonial America or Revolutionary War unit or as a stand alone unit of instruction.Let It Begin Here!: This story takes readers through the first hours of the Revolutionary War starting with Paul Revere's Ride, through the next day with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, to the British limping
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: American Revolutionary War Stories BUNDLE | Distance Learning Printables
BUNDLE! Into Reading HMH 4th Grade Modules 1-5 Text Response Supplement
Enjoying HMH Into Reading, but wishing there was some direction on how to Respond to the Text at the end of each selection? These pages are aligned to Grade 4 Modules 1-5. These pages are designed to give students space to write their Response to Text for each selection and MOST IMPORTANTLY EXAMPLE ANSWERS TO SUPPORT TEACHERS WHEN MODELING RESPONDING TO THE TEXT. This supplemental pack is designed especially to meet the needs of educators teaching the new HMH Into Reading curriculum. Each less
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4th
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Reader's Theater Script: Arctic, Polar Bears, Arctic Foxes, Food Chain
Reading And Science Integration: Life In The Arctic, Full Pack(Arctic Environment, Polar Bears, Arctic Foxes, Lemmings)Reading And Writing ActivitiesThis Reader’s Theater Script is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small group, centers, or teacher table.Reader’s Theater is one of the best tools in the classroom to have students gain fluency, accuracy and comprehension in reading. It also reinforces listening skills, and teamwork. Reading Literature:CCSS.
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3rd - 5th
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THE LEMONADE CLUB by Patricia Polacco: DETAILED LESSON PLAN WITH ACTIVITIES
The Lemonade Club by Patricia Polacco is a heartwarming story that follows the friendship between two young girls, Traci and Marilyn, who are faced with a challenging situation when Traci is diagnosed with cancer. Despite the difficulties they encounter, they decide to start a lemonade stand to raise money for Traci's medical expenses. The story beautifully illustrates the power of friendship, resilience, and community support as they navigate through tough times together. Through engaging illus
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3rd - 5th
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Evidence Scavenger Hunt (Google Slides Activity)
This activity is a great way to introduce CITING and EXPLAINING EVIDENCE in a way that relates to students with fun, silly examples, before diving too deep into full on articles or short stories!In this activity, students (either in groups or independently) will search the web, or their own camera rolls, for EVIDENCE in the form of links, screenshots, videos, etc. that SUPPORT the given claims. Then, students practice EXPLAINING how their evidence supports the claim!This resource includes 1 dire
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Citing Textual Evidence BUNDLE
Among the Hidden Paired Writing Prompts | Digital Google Slides
This digital Google Slides formatted resource includes 10 writing prompts that align with chapters in the novel Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I've created one writing prompt for every three chapters, making this perfect to pair along side your Among the Hidden novel study - plus a bonus EDITABLE Editing & Revising Checklist for students to use! These writing prompts take reader response questions to the next level. They cover many genres of writing and get students thinking d
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3rd - 6th
THE OLD MAN WHO LOVED CHEESE: READING LESSONS WITH EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
Reading lessons for The Old Man Who Loved Cheese by Amy Wilsdorf can be engaging and educational. Start by introducing the book, exploring its themes of aging and passion for cheese, and discussing the characters and their motivations. To extend the learning, students can participate in various activities, such as learning the origin of different cheeses, researching the history of cheese, or even organizing a cheese recipe book. Additionally, creative assignments like writing newspaper articles
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2nd - 4th
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ACE- Answer, Cite, Explain for Inference Questions
As with all of the products I have available for purchase, I create these resources for use in my own classroom.
This ACE (Answer, Cite, Explain) resource was created to serve as a reminder for my students on how to completely answer questions requiring text evidence (Think INFERENCES!). Hang it in your classroom, go over it with your students, model how to use it, and practice each component. Print the smaller version of it for students to keep in their desks/folders/writing notebook.
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4th - 8th
"Shaking Things Up #1" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum: 4th grade ELA: Module 2- Unit 2: Tracking Relationships (Lessons 29-30). These lessons correlate with the book "Shaking Things Up" by Susan Hood. This resource is completely editable through Google Slides. This resource includes modeling slides, timers when appropriate, discussion questions, "I can" statements, success criteria, rubrics, checklists, storybook photos, turn and talks, and anchor chart guides. Please know that these are for the Bookworms Curriculum and the sli
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4th
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Also included in: "Grade 4 ELA Module 2 BUNDLE" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Workbooks for Readers and Writers: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
This workbook accompanies the book *Sadako and the Thousand Cranes* by Eleanor Coerr. Although the book can be read quickly, this workbook requires intensive study of the text. The Common Core Standards listed here on TPT are for 4th grade, but the workbook has been used effectively in a 4th/5th combination classroom.
Each chapter includes a *writing assignment* which asks students to use evidence from the text to support the topic of their paragraphs. For example, this is the writing prompt
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4th - 5th
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