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Writing-expository Common Core RI.3.7 resources
2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Lessons for Informational and Paragraph Writing
Are you looking to spice up your writing block with fun, engaging, and meaningful activities? This is UNIT FOUR of an 11 unit series. This unit will guide your students in writing three informational writing pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have three themes for this writing unit: Writing Informative Paragraphs with Hamburger Paragraphs (in this week students will also inform the reader about their friend), All About Holidays, My Specialty: _____ where stude
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2nd - 3rd
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Endangered Species Expert - Project Based Learning
This project is designed to help students build their research, analysis and synthesis skills while learning about an endangered species that interests them. As students become the class expert for their species, they will exercise reading, writing, grammar, science and art skills as well as build experience with long-term planning and the organization required to complete a multi-step project by a deadline.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Paired Passage with Writing ELA Test Prep 3rd 4th Grade SBAC Performance Task
ELA Test Prep made simple! These high-interest ELA performance tasks tie reading and writing together in meaningful ways for students. In each performance task, students will read two different informational passages to help them answer source questions, multiple-choice questions, and open-ended questions. Need a 3rd source? Links with short videoes on the topics are included.This bundle includes 3 complete ELA Performance Tasks on different topics.Students will then take all the information tha
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3rd - 4th
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Career Day Research Project, Career Explorations, Community Helpers
Looking for a way to spice up your ELA/Social Studies career exploration units? This Career Day Research Project is a perfect and easy way to provide your learners with a deeper understanding of the professions in their communities. You will just need to print and go!This pack includes:~3 parent/guardian letter options explaining the project~Rubrics linked to 2nd and 3rd grade ELA CCSS~Research organizer~Suggested websites~Interview questions for asking community experts~28 career options prin
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1st - 3rd
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Procedural Writing - Writer's Workshop "How-to" Unit
Procedural "how to" writing is an engaging and fun way to bring the “real world” into the classroom. What is included:Characteristics of Procedural Texts – a one page description of features usually found in procedural (“how-to”) texts.Reviewing a Procedural Text – students will select or use a teacher-chosen procedural text to review. Students will read or scan the procedural text, checking off each characteristic that they find. Students will then describe the most useful feature of the tex
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Viet
Animal Research Project (for Google Slides™)
This Animal Research Project (for Google Classroom™) is a great way to expose your students to different animals around the world and can be used for distance learning. Boost 21st century skills by having students apply & develop research skills, use expository writing to report their findings, and increase technology skills to record an oral presentation of their project for a virtual audience! ⭐️⭐️WATCH my VIDEO PREVIEW to see this digital project in action! The image preview attached show
Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS4-2
3rd Grade Library Database Scavenger Hunt & Lesson Plan {Printable}
Students learn beginning research skills, such as keyword searching, to find answers to 10 trivia questions in your library research databases with this editable scavenger hunt.NOTE: This is the printable version of this lesson, designed for use with paper scavenger hunt worksheets while using devices to access your school library's research database(s) or other reliable online resources.Here is the link for the digital version if you prefer a paperless system for blended or virtual / distance
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3rd - 4th
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Solar Oven Investigation: Make S'mores with a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Investigate the energy from the sun with this fun Common Core related unit. Students will work through the scientific process while responding in writing. This digital download contains:
Detailed Instructions on how to assemble a pizza box solar oven with photographs
Donation request sheet
Note pages for the scientific investigation
Data collection sheet
Graph for a bar or line plot
Graphic organizer for procedural writing
S'more themed writing paper
Standards addressed: RI.5, RI. 6, RI
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2nd - 5th
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Ecology Museum Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit About Ecosystems & Adaptations
OVERVIEW:Your students will be invited to join a team of ecologists who are building an ecology museum right in your classroom. The museum will teach other students about how living things survive in their ecosystem by interacting with other living things, and nonliving things. As the Museum Director, you will guide your team of ecologists through four project phases in preparation for the museum grand opening. Your science unit on ecosystems, adaptations, and interdependent relationships will c
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3rd
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Habitats Bundle {Rainforests, Deserts, Ocean, & Forest}
This bundle includes our Ocean, Desert, Forest and Rainforest units.
Ocean Unit:
(Click above to buy this unit individually)
Student Book Cover
Student Book:
Our Blue Planet
The Sunlight Zone
Coral Reefs
The Twilight Zone
The Midnight Zone
Kelp Forests
Parts of the Kelp Plant
Ocean Animals
Sea Otters
Sea Stars
Sea Urchin
White Sharks
Garibaldi
Sea Anemones
Jellyfish
Kelp Crab
Student Note taking pages (plant and animal adaptations)
Comprehension Questions (student page and answers)
Venn Di
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Writing Informational Non-Fiction Books: Weather | 5 Week Writing Unit
Elevate your writing workshop with our comprehensive "All About/Informational Writing" resource! Engage your students in an exciting journey as they delve into the captivating world of weather storms, conducting research and crafting their very own non-fiction informational books.What's Included:5 Weeks of Engaging Writing Plans:Seamlessly integrate this resource into your curriculum with a carefully planned five-week writing schedule, ensuring a structured and engaging learning experience.Sugge
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1st - 4th
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Inventor Reading Passages Informational Writing Template Research Project
Getting ready to study inventors and inventions? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and research writing activities will help your students learn about inventors and conduct research on an inventor of their choice!Included are 9, two-page articles to help your students understand and learn about a wide range of inventors and their inventions all while they gather important information as they read informational text.Close reading anchor charts are also included to
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3rd - 5th
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Famous Americans Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit for Info Reading & Writing
Take your Famous Americans project to a new level of engagement and rigor this year with this unique Impactful Americans Project Based Learning Unit.Your students have been invited to present at the Impactful Americans Symposium. This special event is a time when experts come together to share the amazing accomplishments of important Americans throughout history. Each student will research one impactful American, and present on how this person changed America for the better. Their presentations
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3rd - 4th
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Halloween Informational Text & Expository Writing
This quarter, my kids are focusing on informative/expository writing. I needed something for them to write about with a fun Halloween theme behind it!This product includes:-An informational text about how Halloween is celebrated around the world-A reading comprehension activity-A compare/contrast page-A writing graphic organizer (and an example)-An expository writing activity about trick-or-treating safely-Themed final draft paper
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2nd - 5th
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Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle Frog Plant Butterfly Chick Reading Passages Activity
Looking for sea turtle, frog, plant, butterfly, caterpillar, bee, and chick life cycle reading passages and activities? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and activities will help you engage your students and tie important science concepts and reading work together!Included are 11 nonfiction articles to help your students understand the phenomena of life cycles of plants, tomato plants, chickens, caterpillars to butterflies, bees, and tulips, all while they gather
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 3-LS4-4
RI 2.7 & RI 3.7 Elephant Theme Informational Text - Reading & Writing
Use Text & Images to Gain Information RI 2.7 & RI 3.7 –This standard-based product is a great cross curricular unit for reading, writing, and science. It has 8 informational reading passages with images. Topics: Elephants, Elephant Ears, Trunk, Tusks, Asian vs. African Elephants, Life Cycle, & Elephants in Captivity Each reading passage has comprehension questions focusing on using images and explaining how the images help with understanding of the text. Some of the passages have vo
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Second Grade RI Reading Bundle - Informational Text
Biography Research Note-taking Packet
Biography Report - Informational Writing & Research Packet: Students will use this biography report note-taking packet to collect their informational research, and stay organized too!
Students will complete the biography research note-taking packet after reading a biography book about someone who has impacted history and/or our lives.
This biography packet would also be great for a specific unit of study such as presidents, famous women, inventors, explorers, Hispanic Heritage Month, Afri
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Research Graphic Organizers
This is a pack that can be used to complete several different research projects at the elementary level.
The graphic organizers included are:
Questioning Before Research
KWHL Before Research
Q&A Organizer
Research Organizer
State Research
Animal Research
Biography Research
Organizing Research
Grades:
1st - 5th
Animal Groups: Reading Comprehension Paired Passages
Help your students master NGSS Science Standards, plus Common Core reading and writing standards at the same time with these paired passages! These paired texts are useful to help students with fiction and non-fiction comprehension. And they are a great way to integrate science and language arts!This product aligns to NGSS 3-LS2-1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.CLICK HERE to Follow Me and be the First to Hear About My Newest Products and Sales!This
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-LS2-1
Also included in: Animal Groups: Science and Literacy BUNDLE (NGSS 3-LS2-1)
Animal Research Bundle: From Anchor Charts to Assessments!
Animal Research BundleThis Animal Research Project Bundle contains all you need to teach students how to complete a self-directed research project ending in a Natural History Museum with a unique animal cube project. Teaches non-fiction text features, note taking, paragraph writing skills and adding details. Includes 5 weeks of ready to go lesson plans. Students will choose one animal from a selection of grade-appropriate non-fiction and focus on their animal's adaptations, habitat, predator
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3rd - 5th
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The Art of Information Writing Complete Unit
Slides and materials for each session! Are you teaching students nonfiction, informational, or expository writing? This ART OF INFORMATION WRITING COMPLETE UNIT product pairs seamlessly with Lucy Calkins' 3rd Grade Information Writing Unit 2: The Art of Information Writing and requires no prep for teachers teaching the Units of Study by Lucy Calkins.It includes 21 ready-to-go mini-lessons including teaching points, turn & talks, modeling, active engagement, independent practice, and shares (
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Penguins Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Passages with Text Features Glossary
This Antarctic penguin reading comprehension and writing bundle includes 5 nonfiction passages with text features. This unit focuses on the non fiction text features of glossary and bold print words while reviewing comprehension strategies of topic, main idea, text evidence, ask and answer questions, and schema for 5 different printable nonfiction readers. Great for working on glossary skills! Each printable nonfiction passage includes the following text features: diagrams labelscaptionsbold wo
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2nd - 3rd
Pigs NONFICTION GOOGLE and PRINTABLE Passages and Writing Activities
NON-FICTION DIGITAL GOOGLE SLIDES & PRINTABLE Passages. Teach informational text INTERACTIVELY with vocabulary work, comprehension questions, notetaking, and expository writing. Use during guided reading, whole-class instruction, or for individual learning and on GOOGLE CLASSROOM. This can be used for first, second, or third grade. DIGITAL & PRINTABLE versions accommodate all distant learners! Perfect for a unit on Farm Animals! Here's what's included:Passages:1-page Printable Passage 2-
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Informational Writing Unit Non Fiction Writing Unit
Informational writing can be a difficult concept to teach young writers. This PRINT and GO Writing Curriculum includes everything you need from informational texts, detailed lesson plans, writing paper, interactive activities, and a high success rate. It is all step by step so you and your students will be guided the entire way. It is designed to be used in a classroom that has multiple levels of students and various types of learners because it is differentiated and grows with the learners. Yo
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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