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Writing-expository Common Core RI.3.5 resources
Wax Museum Biography Research Report for 3rd - 6th Grade Social Studies Project
Need an easy to use, meaningful research project that your students, parents, and principal will love? This Wax Museum Project is a highlight of the year and will guide your students to create a biography research report on a famous person. The culminating part of the project is an amazing Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and stand “still”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” on their backdrops to hear a short
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3rd - 6th
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Endangered Species Expert - Project Based Learning
This project is designed to help students build their research, analysis and synthesis skills while learning about an endangered species that interests them. As students become the class expert for their species, they will exercise reading, writing, grammar, science and art skills as well as build experience with long-term planning and the organization required to complete a multi-step project by a deadline.
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3rd - 4th
Paired Passage with Writing ELA Test Prep 3rd 4th Grade SBAC Performance Task
ELA Test Prep made simple! These high-interest ELA performance tasks tie reading and writing together in meaningful ways for students. In each performance task, students will read two different informational passages to help them answer source questions, multiple-choice questions, and open-ended questions. Need a 3rd source? Links with short videoes on the topics are included.This bundle includes 3 complete ELA Performance Tasks on different topics.Students will then take all the information tha
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3rd - 4th
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National Parks Reading Research Project End of the Year Yellowstone Passages
End of the year project made simple! Save time planning about National Parks and the beauty of the United States with these high-interest nonfiction reading and writing activities!This set includes 7 close reading passages and a step-by-step approach to writing research pieces to help you scaffold and differentiate to meet your students' needs. This writing pack will help your students complete a National Park research project. Directions are clear and easy to understand and come in two layouts
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3rd - 5th
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No Prep Nonfiction Text Features Worksheets, Activities, Practice, Review
This resource includes 8 no prep reading and writing activities for text feature practice. Help your students apply what they have already learned about text features, thinking more critically about the purpose of text features and how they help readers better understand text. These activities are self-explanatory and could be completed by students independently in a distance learning packet. Save over 20% when you buy this as part of my Text Features: Building Understanding BundleThis text
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3rd - 5th
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Career Day Research Project, Career Explorations, Community Helpers
Looking for a way to spice up your ELA/Social Studies career exploration units? This Career Day Research Project is a perfect and easy way to provide your learners with a deeper understanding of the professions in their communities. You will just need to print and go!This pack includes:~3 parent/guardian letter options explaining the project~Rubrics linked to 2nd and 3rd grade ELA CCSS~Research organizer~Suggested websites~Interview questions for asking community experts~28 career options prin
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1st - 3rd
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Ocean Habitat CCSS Unit
This ocean unit comes with printable student books (facts, note taking pages, common core response questions), printable teacher notes, and follow-up student writing papers (rough draft and final copy)! It’s everything you need to teach about the ocean while meeting common core standards. Please see the list below and our preview for more information!Ocean Unit Includes:(58 Pages Total)Student Book CoverStudent Book:Our Blue PlanetThe Sunlight ZoneCoral ReefsThe Twilight ZoneThe Midnight ZoneKel
Grades:
K - 3rd
Procedural Writing - Writer's Workshop "How-to" Unit
Procedural "how to" writing is an engaging and fun way to bring the “real world” into the classroom. What is included:Characteristics of Procedural Texts – a one page description of features usually found in procedural (“how-to”) texts.Reviewing a Procedural Text – students will select or use a teacher-chosen procedural text to review. Students will read or scan the procedural text, checking off each characteristic that they find. Students will then describe the most useful feature of the tex
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Viet
3rd Grade Library Database Scavenger Hunt & Lesson Plan {Printable}
Students learn beginning research skills, such as keyword searching, to find answers to 10 trivia questions in your library research databases with this editable scavenger hunt.NOTE: This is the printable version of this lesson, designed for use with paper scavenger hunt worksheets while using devices to access your school library's research database(s) or other reliable online resources.Here is the link for the digital version if you prefer a paperless system for blended or virtual / distance
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3rd - 4th
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Book Reports BUNDLE to Use with ANY Book
56 Book Reports to use with ANY Book, both Fiction and Nonfiction! Using this book report BUNDLE in your classroom will benefit your students' reading comprehension skills:Looking for digital book reports for distance learning? Check out my Digital Book Reports Google Drive Edition.FICTION:Story elementsMaking connections to textQuestioning the textAuthor's purposeCompare & contrastProblem & solution / conflict & resolutionBeginning, Middle & EndSummaryCharacterizationSequencin
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1st - 4th
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Endangered Animals Research Project Reading Endangered Species Activities
Celebrating Earth Day with endangered animal activities? This print-and-go endangered species close reading and research project is just what you need to engage your students this April or any time!This set includes 6 close reading passages and a step-by-step approach to writing and animal research report/essay to help you scaffold and differentiate as needed for your specific class needs!Save time planning, engage students, and bring critical thinking activities into your classroom instantly wi
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3rd - 5th
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Solar Oven Investigation: Make S'mores with a Pizza Box Solar Oven
Investigate the energy from the sun with this fun Common Core related unit. Students will work through the scientific process while responding in writing. This digital download contains:
Detailed Instructions on how to assemble a pizza box solar oven with photographs
Donation request sheet
Note pages for the scientific investigation
Data collection sheet
Graph for a bar or line plot
Graphic organizer for procedural writing
S'more themed writing paper
Standards addressed: RI.5, RI. 6, RI
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2nd - 5th
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Thanksgiving: Mayflower Voyage, Pilgrims, Native Americans GOOGLE Bundle
This Thanksgiving, teach The Story of the First Thanksgiving: Mayflower Voyage, Pilgrims and Native Americans. This unit includes 3 full units and one mini unit. Easily differentiate with built in options that require NO EXTRA PREP. Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about the Native Americans, Plymouth Colony and the pilgrims, the Mayflower voyage and the first thanksgiving in an interactive, digital format that can be easily differenti
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1st - 3rd
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Ecology Museum Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit About Ecosystems & Adaptations
OVERVIEW:Your students will be invited to join a team of ecologists who are building an ecology museum right in your classroom. The museum will teach other students about how living things survive in their ecosystem by interacting with other living things, and nonliving things. As the Museum Director, you will guide your team of ecologists through four project phases in preparation for the museum grand opening. Your science unit on ecosystems, adaptations, and interdependent relationships will c
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3rd
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Animal Report Writing Project to Nonfiction Teach Text Features
Nonfiction is made easy with this fun mini book. Students may research any animal of their choice, and use their information to create their very own book. This mini book is perfect for teaching nonfiction text features to even the youngest of students. The mini book includes...★ 1 table of contents page ★ 6 writing pages (habitat, appearance, diet, special adaptions, special behaviors, interesting facts)★ areas for pictures (illustrated, printed, or cut from magazines)★ areas for picture captio
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2nd - 4th
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Non-Fiction Text Features Anchor Charts
Reading Informational Text has become an increasingly important life skill. Students need to know how to use and understand Non-Fiction Text Features in order to get the deepest understanding from their reading of informational text. It is especially important for English Language Learners because these visual clues often greatly enhance their understanding of a linguistically challenging reading.
This purchase includes anchor charts that explain the concepts of:
*Bullets
*Diagram
*Inset
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: BILINGUAL BUNDLE: Non-Fiction Text Features Anchor Charts
Pollution Activity Human Impact on the Environment Writing Reading Passages
Learning about human impact on the Environment this April for Earth Day? These nonfiction reading and writing activities are all about land, water, and air pollution and will engage your students instantly! These activities also address how human activity plays a part in pollution.This set includes 4 close reading passages and a step-by-step approach to writing a persuasive writing piece about Stopping Pollution to help you scaffold and differentiate as needed for your specific class needs!You w
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-LS4-4
Writing Informational Non-Fiction Books: Weather | 5 Week Writing Unit
Elevate your writing workshop with our comprehensive "All About/Informational Writing" resource! Engage your students in an exciting journey as they delve into the captivating world of weather storms, conducting research and crafting their very own non-fiction informational books.What's Included:5 Weeks of Engaging Writing Plans:Seamlessly integrate this resource into your curriculum with a carefully planned five-week writing schedule, ensuring a structured and engaging learning experience.Sugge
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1st - 4th
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Inventor Reading Passages Informational Writing Template Research Project
Getting ready to study inventors and inventions? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and research writing activities will help your students learn about inventors and conduct research on an inventor of their choice!Included are 9, two-page articles to help your students understand and learn about a wide range of inventors and their inventions all while they gather important information as they read informational text.Close reading anchor charts are also included to
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3rd - 5th
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Famous Americans Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit for Info Reading & Writing
Take your Famous Americans project to a new level of engagement and rigor this year with this unique Impactful Americans Project Based Learning Unit.Your students have been invited to present at the Impactful Americans Symposium. This special event is a time when experts come together to share the amazing accomplishments of important Americans throughout history. Each student will research one impactful American, and present on how this person changed America for the better. Their presentations
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3rd - 4th
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Landmark Research End of the Year Project Informative Writing & Reading Passages
Save time planning about iconic landmarks with these high-interest nonfiction reading and writing activities! This is the perfect set to bring into your ELA and SS blocks to tie together historic places and important reading and writing skills. It also makes a great end-of-year independent project for students.This set includes 7 close reading passages and a step-by-step approach to writing research pieces to help you scaffold and differentiate to meet your students' needs. This writing pack wil
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle Frog Plant Butterfly Chick Reading Passages Activity
Looking for sea turtle, frog, plant, butterfly, caterpillar, bee, and chick life cycle reading passages and activities? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and activities will help you engage your students and tie important science concepts and reading work together!Included are 11 nonfiction articles to help your students understand the phenomena of life cycles of plants, tomato plants, chickens, caterpillars to butterflies, bees, and tulips, all while they gather
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-LS4-3
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Informational BUNDLE: Animal, Country, & Biography Reports {Common Core Aligned}
Integrate nonfiction and informational reading and writing with these two awesome units. These informative writing and informational text units are more than just templates. This bundle includes everything you need for researching, drafting, and publishing rigorous animal reports and biography reports. With the Common Core’s emphasis on informational text and informative writing, this unit will walk you and your young writers through the entire researching and writing process. Animal Report Con
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2nd - 5th
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Biography Research Project Template - Organizer, Nonfiction Text Features
Nonfiction is made easy with this fun mini book. Students may research any person of their choice, and use their information to create their very own book. Try this resource as an autobiography / getting to know you activity!This mini book is perfect for teaching nonfiction text features to even the youngest of students. The mini book includes...★ 1 table of contents page★ 6 writing pages (early life, family life, challenges, accomplishments, interesting facts, life events timeline )★ areas for
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Biography Bundle: Passages, Comprehension, Research Project
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