Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this fun worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Evidence to Analyze a Character.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

Use words from street signs and billboards to create poetry. Pick four words, use one word per line in a four-line poem. Don't be afraid to get creative!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Story Hooks.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Story Hooks.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

This checklist can be be used when revising all types of writing! Have students use this handy writing tool to help them make their writing as strong as can be as they check for correct spelling, use of details, neatness, and more!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

After learning about a predator/prey relationship in the wild, students can use these organizers as a pre-writing exercise for informational paragraph writing. Students will use action verbs and adjectives to describe their predator and prey.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

Children will use this simple template to write a friendly letter to Santa Claus.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Create a Nonfiction Big Book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits