Teaching informational writing

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.

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.

Do you teach informational writing? I do and I used to hate it. I would gladly teach narrative writing all day long, but information...

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

Find out how we do informational and expository writing in second graders. It's all about animals. We gather our facts, work with our facts, and then do our writing. Students (and teachers) love this process.

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.

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!

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