Get your students excited about informational writing! ✏️
This complete informational writing unit takes your 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders through the whole writing process, from researching a topic to a published informational piece. Use it two ways: students choose their own topics, OR they write in response to a prompt.
What's included
- 24 minilessons with lesson plans
- PowerPoint slides to model and teach every lesson
- Writing notebook anchor charts for every lesson, so students have the strategies at their fingertips
- Graphic organizers, including Boxes & Bullets planners and Show Me the Evidence organizers for 3 or 4 sources
- Rubrics & checklists, a mini word wall, and a sort
- Teacher example essay + planning
- Mentor text recommendations and publishing paper
The minilessons
Study a Mentor Text · Writers Are Teachers · Getting Ideas · Prepare for Research · Writers Research · Look for Big Ideas · Sort Information · Plan with Boxes & Bullets · Draft Paragraphs · Paragraphs with Purpose · Use Text Evidence · Balance Facts with Voice · Using a Teaching Tone · Elaboration: Mini Stories · Using Figurative Language · Craft Moves & Elaboration Strategies · Expert Words · Transitional Words & Phrases · Introductions · Conclusions · Revise: Add Text Features · Revise: Eliminate Unnecessary Words · Edit · Polish & Publish!
The lessons don't have to be taught in order. Skip, move, or adjust them based on what your writers need.
What teachers are saying 💬
"My school adopted a curriculum which just had guidelines as to what should be taught but was lacking resources. I purchased this writing unit and was so pleased with how comprehensive the lessons and graphic organizers are!" - Jessica M.
"Your units are amazing and my students have benefited greatly. Before this, I used to hate teaching writing. But this is honestly now one of my favorite subjects to teach." - Brittney B.
"Excellent resource. This is jam packed with information and is everything you promise and more." - Ms. Duffy's Dream
Save with a bundle ⭐
This unit is also in the Narrative, Opinion & Informational Writing Bundle and the Informational & Opinion Bundle.
✅ Try a free sample of this unit or read my blog post on teaching informational writing.
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Happy teaching!
-Jessica
