Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Looking Back on My Year
Reflect on the school year with this end-of-the-year writing activity.
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Assorted Writing Prompts Calendar – Upper Grades
Monthly writing calendar with 240 writing prompts for the year.
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Grade 5 Magazine - "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 1) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with issue 1 of Teach Starter's Grade 5 magazine.
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Historical Recount (Factual) Checklist - Structure, Language and Features
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their historical recounts.
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Recount Writing Planning Template
A template for students to use when planning a recount.
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Recount Writing Scaffold
A one page scaffolding sheet which can be used to write a recount.
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April Writing Prompts - Lower Grades
20 writing prompts for April with corresponding writing sheets.
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March Writing Prompts - Lower Grades
20 writing prompts for March with corresponding writing sheets.
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Story Leads To Hook Your Readers
How to hook your reader: 11 techniques to open your story with a bang and grab your reader's attention!
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Narrative Prompts Posters
A set of 20 posters to display as narrative story prompts for students.
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Independent Writing - Amazing Achievements
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a historical recount using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Shared Writing - Incredible Inventions
A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a historical recount about the development of a famous invention in pairs.
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Introduction to Historical Recounts Unit Plan
This English unit has been designed to introduce the historical recount text type to older students; specifically, the purpose, structure and language features of factual historical recounts.
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Experimenting with Poetry Unit Plan - Grade 5 and Grade 6
This English unit addresses the common elements of poetry and explores how these may be applied to shape poems, limericks, odes and simple ballads.
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Forms of Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some well-known and commonly used forms of fixed verse.
