Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.

This informational writing anchor chart is just one example of a lesson plan from this amazing informational writing unit! Includes FREE worksheet on how to pick a good topic to write about!

Do you teach informational writing? I do and I used to hate it. I would gladly teach narrative writing all day long, but informational writing? No thanks. Last year things changed, now I love teaching informational writing! Read this post to learn about how I use informational writing examples, informational writing graphic organizers, informational writing anchor charts, informational writing hook activities, and more to teach informational writing with ease!

In this blog post you will find five mini lesson, in the order I would teach them, for your next informational writing unit. These mini lessons have been created based on standards and using common struggles students face with this type of writing.

Guide your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students through the process of writing an informational report. These writing units include everything you need to teach your students how to conduct research and write an expository report. Students will learn how to hook their reader in the introduction, research, and write an organized report with text features to support. A mentor text is provided for you to use an example. The unit also includes posters, rubrics, and checklists.

One of my biggest units of the school year is my informational writing unit. This can be a tricky unit for students because students want to write with first or second person pronouns and include their own opinions. Teaching informational writing takes time and practice to help students succeed at it, especially if students have informational writing topics they are passionate about.

Calling all upper elementary writing teachers, this completely FREE opinion writing starter kit will help you teach or review opinion writing with your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. This set inclues an opinion writing anchor chart, modeled writing with coordinating guiding questions to help you teach this genre, student reference page and prompt project to get you started! You will love this free opinion writing printable set! Click today to grab it and it to your writing lesson plans!

Making Writing Fun with Interactive Writing Activities. This teaching resource blog focuses on making writing fun and interactive for students using interactive writing activities.I am going to outline the three big types of writing pieces: narrative, opinion, and informative. Then, I’ll show you how to make each piece of writing interactive. Learn more on how to create your interactive writing lesson plans here

Are your students creating disorganized paragraphs when writing about information or expository text? Find out how I help students organize their facts before writing a paragraph about an animal. This is Week 3 of a series on Informational Writing.

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