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.
Use this biographical writing poster with annotations to help your students understand how to write an engaging biography.
A worksheet to use in the classroom on St. Patrick's Day when talking to kids about lucky during social-emotional lessons.
Research and create an interactive biography for a historical figure.
Practice informative writing with this versatile template.
Create a pennant banner for students to record and display their biography research.
Help your students organize their thoughts about their biography subject.
Create a flipbook that clearly illustrates the most significant aspects of a biography subject.
A flip book template to use around Valentine's Day.
Reflect on the concepts explored near Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with these 15 sentence starter cards.
Challenge students to think about the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. with this set of 13 writing task cards.
Use this PowerPoint template for students to author a researched-based biography on a historical figure.
A fun, hands-on Halloween activity using a die and a chart to create a haunted house to include in a narrative text.
A fun, hands-on Halloween activity using a die and a chart to create a narrative text.
A 72-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the informative text type.
A research template for students to use when writing an informative text.
A planning sheet that can be used to write an informative text.
A 33-slide, editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about informative writing.
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their informative writing.
A template for students to plan an argumentative text.
A template for students to write a concrete poem about a thunderstorm.
A template for students to write a concrete poem about the moon.
A template for students to write a concrete poem about recycling.
A worksheet to use in the classroom when writing athlete profiles.
Encourage students to think about how they could make the world a better place with our Nobel Peace Prize writing template.
A 70-slide PowerPoint presentation containing a variety of quick warm-up activities.
A fun way to help your reluctant writers choose something to write about.