Fun informational writing activities

We are finally turning a huge corner in our homeschool when it comes to writing! This year, my 1st and 2nd grader (pretty equal in their writing abilities) are starting to write more on their own. I'm excited to share some creative writing project ideas we've been doing that don't feel like school! They've actually

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.

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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.

This informative writing unit was created to help your students create an All About Book about their favorite animal. They will go through the research and writing processes as the unit aligns directly with the common core standards! This pack guides you step-by-step as you help your kids discover their love for non-fiction texts and writing. In the end, you have some adorable and informative books for your students to keep!

Teaching opinion writing can be a lot of fun in First Grade. First graders have LOTS of opinions, and they love to share them! Here are a few ideas that have helped me to teach opinion writing to first graders. Start by teaching students how to write a topic sentence. I have found that having an anchor chart with sentence starters for students to refer to is super helpful. I like to create the chart in front of the students. It might look something like this: Once the chart is completed…

Your students will love increasing their writing skills with this interactive writing notebook for first grade.

Teaching narrative writing can be easy, effective while consuming little time. This model is simple to implelment and promotes student love for writing!

Last week we began our Procedural Writing Unit. We began the unit immersing the students with different procedural books. Students went on...

Informational writing in kindergarten can be a lot of fun. These are some of my favorite mentor texts to read to my students when teaching how to writing and all about writing.

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Are you teaching how-to/procedure writing to little learners, such as Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade students? If so, you'll love this procedural writing freebie! These free activities are no prep for your Literacy lessons, Literacy Centers, or Writer's Workshop. There is a planning page, worksheet, writing craft, and flip book all about How To Make Pancakes. There are also sequencing cards. Your students will love the engaging flipbook and craftivity the most. Grab these…

Informative Writing is one of the most important types of writing we teach our students. In this post I'm sharing 5 tips for How to Teach Informative Writing and details about the Informational Writing Mini-Unit resources created for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students. #informationalwriting #firstgradewriting #secondgradewriting #literacycenters

Before students begin creating their own informational pieces, it's important that they see a variety of informative passages and texts. They need to really be able to distinguish what makes this type of writing different from Fiction. A simple T chart to show the differences of informational and fiction writing and work good to get

Completing a writing unit is a HUGE accomplishment, no matter what grade level you teach. Whether you teach Lucy Calkins' Writer's Workshop, district-mandated

Fictional Narrative writing guide! This writing guide is perfect for elementary students to guide them through the process of writing a Fictional Narrative including the planning, rough draft writing, revise and editing, and final draft steps. This literacy activity has the potential to be an independent work project as it contains all the steps needed to write a fictional narrative! Great for fourth grade, fifth grade and sixth grade writing!

This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and

FREE Roll a Character Fun Writing Activity - this is such a fun creative writing activity. This fun, free printable writing prompt is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade kids.