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Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

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Kids' Writing Prompts

This workbook helps kids brush up on key skills and prepares them for the fifth grade curriculum. Worksheets focus on the core subjects of word study, math, reading and writing.

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Get Ready for Fifth Grade

This lesson will inspire your students to focus on the people, pets, things, places, and ideas that mean the most to them! Your students will practice writing in this heartfelt lesson.

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Writing From the Heart

Every great reader and writer knows that syntax matters. During this lesson, students will use the close reading strategy to focus on word choice, and use their understanding of syntax to develop theories about patterns in the text.

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Close Reading Through Word Choice

Practice writing topic sentences with this paragraph structure worksheet!

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Get Focused! Writing Topic Sentences

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

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Characters Change Just Like We Do

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Argument and Claims

Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

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Writers' Building Blocks

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in 3-4 sentences.

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What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

Good writers also know how to slow down the action at just the right times to build suspense and pull the reader into the moment.

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Exploding the Moment

Help students plan their informational writing with this graphic organizer!

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Graphic Organizer: Informational Writing

Getting ready to write an informational essay? Use this five-page outline to help think through the next stages of the informational writing process! 

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Draft an Outline: Informational Writing

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text

Students will have the opportunity to fine-tune their writing by adding, deleting, or reworking content in their informational essay drafts. They’ll use a checklist to guide this critical step in the writing process. 

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Informational Essay: Revising

The hardest part of writing an essay can be the first few steps. This lesson and accompanying graphic organizers will help students map out their ideas and practice crafting paragraphs. With this support, your writers will be off and running! 

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Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

Start Your Engines! It's time to teach your students how to summarize fiction text as you race down Summary Raceway. 

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Summary Raceway: Summarizing Fiction

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

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Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details in the context of sentences and paragraphs. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Power Reading lesson.

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Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Use this fun and easy lesson plan to teach your students to predict and calculate dimensions for shapes to scale in sets.

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Scale, Shapes, and Sets

This lesson will help your young writers develop a claim, or thesis, and construct an argument around it. You may have students complete the essay by continuing the process with the lesson Literary Argument Writing: Drafting Your Essay.




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Literary Argument Writing: Defining Your Topic

Create conversations about character changes! Use this lesson plan as a stand-alone lesson for practicing sequencing words in evidenced-based claims about a character, or before the Characters Change Just Like We Do lesson.

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Evidence of Character Changes

In this lesson, students use highlighters, graphic organizers, and a classic fable to exercise their understanding of key details and main idea in a text. They will use manipulatives to promote visual and kinetic learning styles.

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Fantastic Fables: 5 W's

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

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Interesting Introductions

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

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Marvelous Metaphors

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

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Animal Research

Your students will love learning all about the playful characters in a classic read-aloud text while digging into what makes characters unique. Use as a stand-alone or support lesson for the How to Analyze a Character lesson plan.

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Using Evidence to Analyze a Character

Students will learn to structure their written arguments as they create their own class paper full of opinion editorial pieces in this fun, real-world driven lesson. Step right up and write all about it!

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Extra, Extra! Read All About It

Use this lesson to help your ELs identify and discuss the author's point and the information that supports it. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the What’s the Point? lesson.

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Match Author's Point with Evidence

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century writer and philosopher who today is considered one of the first documented feminists and advocates for women’s education. In this lesson, students will read two nonfiction texts about Sor Juana and discuss her life and accomplishments before writing an opinion piece about her. 

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