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Common Core W.5.1a task cards
Opinion Writing and Argumentative Writing Activities for Persuasive Writing
Get ready to MASTER opinion writing with these resources and activities that are perfect for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students. Students will use samples and checklists to gather a full understanding of opinion writing before moving on to a variety of activities and ways to create their own pieces of persuasive writing.NOTE: This resource got a HUGE update in July 2022!Differentiation is easy!There are many different levels of graphic organizers and writing templates. You choose the level that is
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3rd - 5th
Opinion Writing Unit FIFTH GRADE
My fifth grade opinion writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write a strong opinion essay. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your existence, or binge-watch reality television—because it’s just that frustrating and over
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5th
Fact and Opinion Task Cards & Unit Plan | Perspective & Bias | Digital + Print
This 153 PAGE UNIT provides ENGAGING TASKS, TASK CARDS, LESSONS and RESOURCES to teach students the difference between FACT and OPINION as READERS and WRITERS through proven teaching strategies fostering CRITICAL THINKING and RESEARCH SKILLS. ⭐ AN ESSENTIAL MEDIA LITERACY SKILL FOR THE "MISINFORMATION" ERAWHAT'S INCLUDEDFact & Opinion Mini-Lesson and overviewLink to Google Slides Version for independent/interactive use16 Fact and Opinion Discovery Task cards (Digital + Print)16 Fact & O
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3rd - 9th
Elaboration Stations - Practice for Elaboration in Writing Expository/Opinion
Do your students struggle with understanding what it means to elaborate when writing expository or opinion essays? If they are like my students, this is a very difficult concept. Being able to elaborate in their writing, for a lot of students, will be the difference in an excellent test score and a good test score.I've developed these Elaboration Stations for students to practice with Elaboration in essays. Before completing these stations, students will need some background on what it means
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4th - 6th
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Writing Task Card Bundle
With these 56 task cards, your students will practice answering standardized test-inspired questions about writing. Each card features a short paragraph and question. These cards target the sub-standards for opinion, narrative and informational writing:Opinion- Introducing an opinion- Supporting the opinion with reasons- Connecting reasons with transitions- Concluding an opinionNarrative- Establishing a situation and introducing characters- Using description and dialogue to develop events- Conne
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3rd - 5th
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5th Grade Writing Prompt Task Cards, Standards Included, Great Writing Center!
Twenty-five 5th Grade Writing Prompt Task Cards! Fun and creative writing projects directly aligned to the 5th Grade Language Arts CCSS (Common Core) Standards, but suitable to any 5th grade curriculum. Great, no-prep writing center!Great for distance learning as well.Standards included with each task card.The prompts on these cards are fun, interesting and relevant to 5th grade students. Each prompt directs the student to complete a writing project following explicit directions that integrate
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5th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Language Arts Bundle, Review the Standards All Year!
Elaboration 101 - Teaching Students to Elaborate in Text Based Essays
I finally figured out that if my students knew how to elaborate in their essays, they would. I kept giving them sentence starters to help them, but that wasn't enough. Finally, after a few years of studying this, I have created Elaboration 101. Now that I'm teaching them how to elaborate, they are actually attempting to use the strategies in their writing. In this resource, you will be getting:•38 slide instructional power point that teaches students to use an anecdote, example, or explanati
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4th - 6th
Riding Freedom Novel Study for Book Clubs Literature Circles
Includes these discussion cards: Riding Freedom (Muñoz Ryan) Discussion Cards in black and white PLUS so much more! *UPDATED* 5/9/2020 to include a Google drive version. I created this novel study to help my students engage with the wonderful novel, Riding Freedom, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. This packet can be used for independent work and/or small group work and includes character study, vocabulary, conflict analysis, figurative language, theme, and more. The study is aligned with Virginia SOLs (Standa
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Riding Freedom Book Clubs Literature Circles BUNDLE
Wringer Novel Study for Book Clubs Literature Circles
I created this novel study to help my students engage with the wonderful novel, Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli. This packet can be used for independent work and/or small group work and includes character study, vocabulary, conflict analysis, figurative language, theme, and more. The study is aligned with Virginia SOLs (Standards of Learning) for ELA and CCSS (Common Core State Standards). *UPDATED* 5/10/2020 to include a Google drive version! I read Wringer aloud to my fifth graders for years. Upper
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4th - 6th
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Opinion Writing Task Cards
With these 16 task cards, your students will practice answering standardized test-inspired questions about writing. Each card features a short paragraph and question. These cards target the sub-standards for opinion writing:- Introducing an opinion- Supporting the opinion with reasons- Connecting reasons with transitions- Concluding an opinionThese cards are NOT writing prompts. They are selected response questions with multiple correct answers, just like 3rd-5th graders will see on standardized
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Writing Task Card Bundle
FSA Writing Task Cards: Introductions and Conclusions (Elaboration, too!)
This is another product that helps students with additional practice on introductions and conclusions. However, these task cards can be utilized in other ways, such as, elaborating on the pieces of evidence and explaining how they relate to the claim, practice with writing in certain areas of informative / opinion essays, and paraphrasing.
These task cards may be used whole group, or in centers for additional practice.
Included on each of the EIGHT task cards for writing practice is a claim (m
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4th - 5th
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From Prompt To Thesis Statement - Keep Essay Focused - PowerPoint/Task Cards
Help your students have a strong introduction and keep their essays focused. I created this resource when my students were struggling with having a clear and focused thesis statement in their introduction paragraphs. I taught them how to turn words from the prompt into a thesis statement. What You are Getting in this Resource:1. 12 Slide Instructional Power pointdefinition of thesis statementtwo types of thesis statements (Opinion and Expository/Informative)instructions on how to turn the pro
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4th - 5th
Essay Prompt Task Cards (FSA Style 5 paragraph opinion and informative)
This pack includes 24 half page task cards (16 different prompts) to use when practicing essay writing skills. Each card includes a prompt, a controlling idea, and three reasons to support the controlling idea. (All of these prompts are my own work based on text sets that I have created.). I also included a set that is 4 to a page with just the prompt. (The prompts are the same as the other task cards; they are just in a different order, and they don’t include the controlling idea and reasons.)
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4th - 5th
Riding Freedom Book Clubs Literature Circles BUNDLE
I created this novel study to help my students engage with the wonderful novel, Riding Freedom, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. This packet can be used for independent work and/or small group work and includes character study, vocabulary, conflict analysis, figurative language, theme, and more. The study is aligned with Virginia SOLs (Standards of Learning) for ELA and CCSS (Common Core State Standards). If your students love Esperanza Rising (who doesn't?), they will likely love Riding Freedom! Although thi
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4th - 5th
History and Literacy Task Cards: BC/BCE, AD/CE; Timelines; Sources; Perspectives
Build content-area reading and writing skills with the History and Literacy task card series! Created with Common Core ELA and content-area ELA standards in mind, the tasks assigned in this activity require students to identify key ideas and details as well as understand the craft and structure of readings. Students also integrate knowledge and ideas as they analyze texts. In addition, students practice creating examples of narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive writing in response t
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4th - 8th
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32 Persuasive writing topic cards, games and sentence structure
To have your students writing a persuasive piece successfully, ensure they can speak persuasively first! With the common arguments provided, never again will you hear students say that they can't think of an argument. The common arguments poster includes an easy mnemonic device to ensure students will always remember the 4 common arguments for persuasive writing.In this download:Page 1: What’s includedPages 2-6: Game suggestions—5 different ways to play with the included cards.Pages 7-10: 8 di
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3rd - 7th
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Persuasive Writing
Persuasive Writing contains everything you will need to teach a ten lesson unit. The lessons are themed around saving Earth.
Persuasive Writing Lessons include:
Lesson 1 ~ Selecting a Writing Topic for a Persuasive Essay
• Hook Activity – I Have, Who Has
• Activities 1 and 2 ~ Brainstorming and Graphic Organizer – Pamphlet Fold
• Activities 3, 4, and 5 ~ Sorting Writing Topics, Brainstorming, & Selecting a Topic
Lesson 2 ~ Citing Research Sources
• Hook Activity
• Mini Posters with MLA Ci
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4th - 6th
Graphic Organizers for Writing: November Writing Prompts and Posters
This November packet contains fun writing prompts about traditional holidays as well as unusual and offbeat holidays and celebrations for the month of November. Discover 10 November writing prompts for each of the following: opinion writing, narrative writing, and informational writing. Help your students learn to plan and organize their writing with the graphic organizers that are included for each writing prompt. Colorful writing posters filled with information about each type of writing and
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3rd - 5th
First day of School - Writing Prompts - Thinker's Keys
Back to School - Thinkers Keys cards and worksheets
3Under5TuesdayDownUnder
Are you looking for a Back to School resource that actually gets your students thinking? Using the popular Thinkers Key's, these 20 task cards (and accompanying worksheets) will get your students critically, and creatively thinking from day one!
Use as part of you writing programme, or as a warm up oral language task. These cards could even be spaced across the duration of the year if you want!
Included in the file
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3rd - 7th
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Writing Prompts with Pictures for Predicting Outcomes Task Box Filler for Autism
Are your Special Education students with autism practicing how to write complete sentences, or paragraph writing with key details using picture writing prompts? A picture with a written writing prompt, along with two picture responses, provides students with key details for writing descriptive sentences and shows them how to write a paragraph. This Task Box Filler is perfect for learners with autism, reading resource, speech therapy, as a writing activity with visual support for students also le
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3rd - 6th
Paragraph Writing Practice - Task Cards - ELA Test Prep
Looking for a fun way to practice paragraph writing? You'll love using task cards to help your students practice writing paragraphs. The engaging task cards will help to teach, practice, review, or assess the essential skill of paragraph writing. Includes 28-task cards focused on the best supporting sentence, detail sentence, concluding sentence, and topic sentence. Perfect for paragraph writing centers. Just print, cut, and go!Great ELA test prep activity, the task cards provide a fun way to pr
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Paragraph Writing Task Card Bundle - Digital and Printable Task Cards
5th Grade Opinion Writing Checklist (standards-aligned) - PDF and digital!!
Opinion writing checklist to help fifth graders through the writing process.Includes:-A PDF version to print and copy-A digital version that can be directly assigned on Google Classroom and completed on a device to support distance learningSupports self-monitoring and self-reflection.Includes student-friendly word bank of transition words.Aligned to fifth grade writing standards.
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5th
June Creative Writing Daily Journal Prompts + Google Slides
These June Creative Writing Daily Journal Prompts are great to use as warm-ups, morning work, writing center exercise or independent work for creative-writing and journaling time. They work work best in 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th Grade. Each task card links to observances and national holidays.These Task Cards:Are no prep!PDF Task Cards + Google Slides Version included - Please note these are not editableInclude fiction writing prompts and non-fiction writing promptsInclude social emotional writing p
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3rd - 6th
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FSA Writing Task Cards: Paragraph Writing & Elaboration
The idea is for students to use these as a "quick" practice to write elaborated paragraphs, essentially they can be used for additional practice with writing introductions and conclusions with the way they are designed. You can even write an entire essay using some of these cards because they share the same controlling idea, but argue different points with a second main idea on another task card.There are a total of 8 cards at this time. Each card has the following:a controlling statement, a ma
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4th - 5th
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