Expository Writing Teaching Resources for 2nd Grade
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Informative Writing Fact Files - Differentiated Writing Worksheets
Teach your students to write informative texts using a pack of differentiated Informative Writing Fact File Worksheets.
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Procedural Writing Prompt Task Cards
Need some procedural writing ideas? Download these task cards to use as a writing center activity during your procedure writing unit.
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Amelia Earhart Constructed Response Worksheet
Use this passage, second grade writing prompt, and worksheet to help students write a constructed response paragraph about Amelia Earhart.
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Write the Room - Paralympic Games Writing Center
Teach your students the vocabulary associated with the Paralympic Games with this interactive Write the Room activity.
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Information Text Graphic Organizers
Get your students to plan and write informational texts with this set of 6 differentiated graphic organizers.
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Build a Fact File Template
Get a sense of separating fact from opinion in texts with this graphic organizer.
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Tornado Worksheets - Informational Writing (2nd Grade)
Use our printable tornado worksheets and organizers to teach 2nd grade informational writing lessons.
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What’s the Heading? Task Cards
Explore the heading text feature with this set of task cards perfect for reading centers.
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Paralympic Athlete Profile Template
Get your students excited about their favorite Paralympic competitors with our Athlete Profile Template.
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Sports – Digital Report Writing Activity
Use this digital writing scaffold to model the purpose and structural elements of informational writing.
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Country Report – Mini Book Template
Download this expository writing prompt to use when teaching report writing to elementary students.
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How to Make Fairy Bread Flipbook
Use this “How to Make Fairy Bread” procedural writing activity to help familiarize your students with the structural elements of procedure texts.
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Describing Animal Adaptations - Informative Writing Prompt Worksheets
Write to describe animals and their adaptations with a printable pack of informative writing worksheets.
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How to Make a Sundae - Informational Writing Craftivity
Inspire students to write informational text with a fun, summer-themed end-of-year writing assignment and craft.
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Dinosaurs - Vocabulary Cards and Writing Prompts for Second Grade
Inspire young paleontologists to read and write about dinosaurs with a dinosaur-themed writing center and word wall.
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Paul Revere Worksheet - Constructed Response
Integrate reading, writing, and American history with a constructed response Paul Revere Worksheet highlighting the American Revolution.
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Informative Writing - Animal Research Task
Use a printable animal research organizer booklet for students to record facts about animals when learning to write informative texts.
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Explanation Report Text Examples and Worksheet Pack
Use this set of explanation text examples and analysis worksheets to help students identify and apply key features of explanation texts.
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Explanation Text Poster Pack
Use this Explanation Text poster set with your students to clearly show the structure and text elements of an explanation text.
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Exploring Simple Explanations PowerPoint
Use this Exploring Simple Explanations PowerPoint to teach your students about what explanation texts are, why they are written, and how they are structured.
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Life Cycle Explanation Project Writing Scaffold Pack
Use this project including life cycles and explanation planning templates when exploring explanations with your early years students.
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Red Ribbon Week - Write the Room Activity
Use these Red Ribbon Week Writing prompts with your students during literacy centers.
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Compare and Contrast - Tornadoes and Hurricanes Worksheet Pack
Compare and contrast tornadoes and hurricanes with a set of printable paired passage reading worksheets.
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Biography Checklist Pack
Use this biography checklist pack to help students review and refine their writing with structured guidance on essential biography features.
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Biography Graphic Organizer Pack
Use this biography graphic organizer pack to simplify the process of planning and presenting biographical information for your students.
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All About Smoke Alarms Fact File & Writing Activity
Learn all about smoke alarms and boost writing skills with a printable fact file and writing scaffold worksheet pack.
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Animal Information Report – Writing Craftivity
Use this animal-themed writing and craft activity to teach your students in the primary grades about informative writing.
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My Animal – Digital Report Writing Activity
Get your students to write an information report on an animal using this digital writing scaffold perfect for modeled and shared writing.
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Informational Text Checklists
Use these information text checklists when teaching your students how to edit their informational writing.
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Animal Information Text Cloze Worksheets
Get your students to write a simple information text on an animal with this set of structured templates.
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Informational Text Anchor Charts
Display this set of 5 informational text anchor charts in your classroom during your informational writing unit.
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Community Helper – Digital Report Writing Activity
Use this community helpers activity to model the purpose and structural elements of informational texts.