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Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. The student is expected to:
(A) compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;
(B) compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
(C) compose multi-paragraph argumentative texts using genre characteristics and craft; and
(D) compose correspondence that reflects an opinion, registers a complaint, or requests information in a business or friendly structure.
A template for students to use when planning a narrative text.
A template for students to use when planning the plot structure of a narrative text.
A fun, hands-on activity using a die and a chart to create a creature to include in a narrative text or a comic strip.
Research and create an interactive biography for a historical figure.
A fun way to help your reluctant writers choose something to write about.
A 33-slide, editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about informative writing.
A template for students to use when writing their own Readers Theater script.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A set of 9 annotated poetry anchor charts to use when introducing structured forms of poetry.
Use this PowerPoint template for students to author a researched-based biography on a historical figure.
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
Have your students use strong introductory phrases in their persuasive writing.
A worksheet to help teach students the author's craft of using modality words to persuade the reader.
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students’ biography writing.
A planning template to use when writing a persuasive or opinion text.
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
A fun, hands-on Halloween activity using a die and a chart to create a narrative text.
Create a pennant banner for students to record and display their biography research.
A fact file and a scaffolding template that can be used to write an informative text about weather.
A research template for older students to use when writing a biography.
A worksheet to reinforce student knowledge of persuasive devices.
An 80-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of rhetorical questions.
A set of 3 worksheets to use when teaching your students about persuasive devices.
A worksheet for students to practice using persuasive devices in their writing.
An inquiry-based task to strengthen your students' understanding of conducting research for an informational text.
Sort low and high modality words with this cut and paste worksheet.
A fun Thanksgiving writing activity to use with your students.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A persuasive writing task based on real-world issues affecting children.