Paired passages with writing prompts informational Writing Prompt Africa
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Grade Levels
5th - 6th
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Standards
CCSSCCRA.W.2
CCSSCCRA.W.4
CCSSCCRA.W.5
CCSSCCRA.W.10
CCSSCCRA.L.1
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Pages
25 pages
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Description
Get your 5th grade or 6th grade students ready for state ELA writing tests while they learn some of the culture of Africa. A mentor text will give them examples of text based writing. Differentiated paired passages in two reading levels will introduce them to some of the customs of Ivory Coast. An expository writing prompt asks students to write an informational essay about how Ivorian customs are different from their own. Graphic organizers will help your writers keep themselves organized, and a teacher's guide will give you step-by-step instructions on teaching text-dependent writing. You can print the PDF or assign this resource digitally through Easel.
This resource includes:
- A five-page teacher's guide that lays out how to teach your students to "write to text."
- A diagram of essay structure that includes a hook, thesis, body paragraphs, concluding paragraphs and all the rest. Students will color code the diagram.
- A mentor five-paragraph essay. Students will color code it to match the essay-structure diagram.
- A mentor article and mentor graphic organizer for the mentor essay.
- A one-page informative article about the Toura of Ivory Coast. You have a choice of two reading levels to allow you to differentiate for your students.
- A one-page realistic fiction story about a Toura girl who helps her family of farmers in the rice field, also differentiated.
- An informational writing prompt that asks students to compose an essay explaining how Toura customs are different from their own.
- A web graphic organizer to help your student brainstorm.
- Two different prewriting graphic organizers: One for an essay with three body paragraphs and one for two body paragraphs
- Two lined, illustrated writing pages
- A print-and-go rubric
- An editable rubric that you can make your own
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Total Pages
25 pages
Answer Key
Rubric only
Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSCCRA.W.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCSSCCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSSCCRA.W.5
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
CCSSCCRA.W.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSSCCRA.L.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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