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Teach students how to write a paragraph! This paragraph writing resource includes 8 important steps with graphic organizers to help your students learn to write a good 5 sentence paragraph and about paragraph structure.

It can be so hard to teach context clues to your students sometimes. This weekly activity is a great way to teach your students how to use contexxt clues to build their vocabulary. #contextclues #buildingvocabulary #vocabularyactivities #upperelementary #teaching #reading #readersworkshop

Get your students excited about informational writing! This complete informational writing unit includes daily lesson plans, notebook charts, mentor texts and more. This unit takes your students through the whole writing process. Students will begin with getting ideas and end with a published piece of informational writing. The informational writing lessons included can be used in two ways: Students get their own ideas for their essay. Students write based on a prompt. ✋🛑 The materials in...

All students learn better when there is parent support at home!Here is a reading resource to send home to your student's parents.This resource has standards that are tested on STAAR (pulled from 4th grade TEKS, but will also work for third and fifth grade) and question stems the parents can use to a...

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Quick daily writing practice will help your students gain confidence and practice with writing narratives. Six weeks of ready-to-use warm ups that focus on narrative writing. Perfect for test prep, literacy centers, mini lessons, and daily practice.

✨ BEST-SELLER✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing...

Teach Nonfiction Text Structure with this HUGE reading unit. Covers Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Chronological Order (Sequential Order), Problem & Solution, AND Description. Includes, student notes practice pages, review activity, paired passages. Text Structure anchor chart, and assessment. Perfect for 4th Grade Reading, 5th Grade Reading, and 6th Grade Reading.

This sort activity includes: Metaphor Onomatopoeia Hyperbole Simile Imagery Idiom Each type of figurative language includes a title, definition, and 4 examples for students to sort.

Reading Response Choice Boards (Fiction, Nonfiction, and Editable Templates)

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***Non-Fiction Scavenger Hunt***You are going to love, love, love this product! This non-fiction scavenger hunt can be used for any informational text. The piece asks for your students to find three text features from the list, identify the authors purpose, analyze the title, and find the central idea of the text.*You can have your students work on this individually, pairs, as a group, and you can make it a challenge and competition!