This writing unit is created to teach students to write narratives, as well as other writing forms that are not practiced as frequently in school. This is differentiated to meet the needs of learners at 5 different levels (K - 8th). This unit includes:
Writing Prompts and Guidance (brainstorms/outlines/checklists/sentence starters) for:
Fetch Quest Novel: In order to become a true wizard, the apprentice must discover his own spells. Tell of his adventures as he and his friends travel Rothengard in search of magical spells.
Recipe Book: Each student writes a recipe for a meal that they imagine a character or magical creature might eat.
Users Manual: Each student write a user’s manual for a piece of technology that a character or magical creature in the story might operate.
Map: As a class create a map of all the places the characters in the story must travel in order to collect the spells.
Wildlife Guide Book: Each student creates a creature that lives in the setting of the book.
Biography: Students work in small groups and write a biography for each of the characters in the story.
You might also be interested in my other Narrative Writing Projects!
Creative Writing Prompts: Lost Pirate Treasure
Creative Writing Prompts: Stuck in a Video Game
Total Pages
114 pages
The resource comes with 3 different versions to help your reader at their level. It can be used to give readers more SKILL practice with the following strategies: making predictions, questioning, making connections, rereading, and summarizing. It has space for a quick 5 to 10-minute reflection and can be paired with any text.
This resource can be used as a:
Reading Log
Reading Reflection: after silent reading or reading centers
Partner Activity
Close Reading Activity
Save money by purchasing this resource in the Reading Reflections and Spelling Bundle.
If you like this resource, you may also like:
Reading Standard Worksheets for Every Grade
Comprehension and Skill-Based Reading Logs
17 Partner Talks and Activities
Total Pages
11 pages
This bundle has resources for writing at 5 different levels. It can be used for narrative writing for grades K-8th. It includes 7 writing Units each with a different theme.
THEMES:
Pirates
Video Game
Monsters
Zombies
Atlantis/Mermaids
Space/Aliens
Medieval/Magic
Each Theme Includes 6 different writing activities (each at 5 different levels)
Fetching Quest: Students are given a prompt and must each write their own piece to the story. This can be done as individuals or in pairs.
Recipe Book: Students write a recipe that matches the theme of the novel created as a class.
Users Manual: Students write a user manual for a piece of equipment that could be or was used throughout the novel.
Map: As a class create a map that shows the location of all the places the characters went during the different parts of the story.
Wildlife Guide Book: Each student creates a plant or animal that could live in the setting of the novel
Biography: In small groups, students write a biography of each of the characters in the novel.
Each writing unit will take about 6 weeks and in the end, there will be 4 class books written by your students that can be added to your classroom library. This resource is a great way for students to practice narrative writing and technical writing (in a fun and engaging way). It also will give them an opportunity to write on their own and in partners and groups.
If you like this resource, you may also enjoy some of my other bundles:
Writing and Spelling for the Whole Year
Reading Comprehension Standard Worksheets for Every Grade
Total Pages: 800 pages!
This bundle includes resources for educators to organize and plan throughout the school year. Included in the bundle is:
Lesson Plan: This lesson plan can be used for teachers during evaluations or lessons that require more detailed planning. Included is space for the date, objective, teacher actions, student involvement, student tasks, assessments, topic/theme, and next steps.
Sub Lesson Plan: Having been both a traditional teacher and a substitute teacher, I know the importance of clear instructions for substitutes and just how time-consuming that can be! This template leaves space to write the TIME and subject. The details of what will be done during that time, students that may need to be mentioned, extra notes, space for information in case of a fire drill/emergency or special circumstance and MORE!
Small-Group Lesson Plans: This is an editable template to help keep track of lesson plans during small group time. Make copies and share it with IA’s in your class (or use the more detailed lesson plan for IA’s) OR for personal reference to keep track of all those little learners during interventions or guided reading groups.
Centers Rotation: This template is a great organizer for teachers, and can even be helpful for students to understand their center rotations, as well as expectations and objectives (depending on what you choose to write in each box!
Class Roster: This is a great way to get a quick glance at student information that may be needed throughout the year. Write in parent names, phone numbers and emails…as well as student birthday, and a row for extra information (how student’s get home, special needs for specific students, etc.)
Classroom Data Sheet: Write the title of the text and the name of each student and then keep track of your student’s scores and growth. This is a great way to get a quick look at weekly assessments throughout the year.
Student Sign Out Sheet: Keep this by the door. Have students write their names, the location of where they are going, the date and the time they leave and return. Good for older students to hold them accountable for time outside of the classroom.
Class Checklist: Use the class list to check off students as they complete tasks and assignments. Class lists can be great for holding students accountable and keeping track of students for assignments, groups and more.
Anecdotal Notes Page: With so many students, it can be hard to keep track of the little things that happen throughout the year. Keep a stack of sticky notes with a binder next to this template (print a half-page for each student). Then when it comes time for meetings with parents and administrators, you can keep track of important moments with the students in the class, behavior concerns, small things you’ve noticed, tardies/absences, even accomplishments or funny things students have said! This can also be great for your reflection to look back on at the end of the year and see the progress that can’t always be shown through a test!
Newsletter Templates: This resource includes 12 editable templates for classroom monthly newsletters. These can be used at any grade level and are formated similarly to allow for organized and clear information. A great way to increase parent/teacher communication and give reminders for important events in school!
Calendar: Both a PDF and Powerpoint version of a monthly calendar for the whole year. There are two versions one with every day of the month and another with only the 5 school days (to provide more room for planning).
Long-Range Planner: This comes with two different templates (both editable) created for teachers to plan out the curriculum overview for the school year.
To-Do Lists: These lists can be used for teachers or students with two different editable versions.
Meeting Notes: This template has two different versions and can be used as a quick way to look back and remember information during staff meetings, parent meetings, IEP meetings, etc.
Weekly Planner: There are two different versions for teachers and THREE different versions for homeschool parents. These small box planning templates are wonderful for planning multiple subjects or classes. They also can be reformatted with more boxes or less to fit the needs of your schedule.
Homeschool Calendar Template: An extra calendar/schedule template that can be used for homeschoolers or individual students.
All of these resources come in MicrosoftPowerpoint already sized to print correctly on standard paper. This means you can make your own changes so the resource is just right for you before printing it OR you can also just use the digital resource to save on paper!
MEGA READING BUNDLE
1,300+ PAGES OF RESOURCES!
This Bundle includes the following three bundles:
Holiday Writing
Creative Writing
Writing and Spelling Bundle
Enjoy Resources for the WHOLE YEAR for ANY GRADE k-8th that are engaging, differentiated and teach writing standards! Included are the following resources:
Holiday Writing Bundle:
Halloween Writing Prompts: Text Structure-This resource uses Halloween prompts to teach students to write using graphic organizers that work for specific text structures. It teaches sequencing, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, and description.
Save That Turkey! ELA Activity: Help the turkey escape from Thanksgiving Dinner! This ELA Thanksgiving printable packet. It comes with 4 different activities, each with two levels of differentiation. Great for writing review the week of thanksgiving. It teaches topics such as; characterization, parts of speech, narrative writing and a gratitude quick write.
Service Learning Project: These printables include step by step instructions for students to set up a Service Learning Project within the school or community. This can be done as a class, in groups or individually (it is also a great homeschool activity) depending on the group skill level and age. A great way for students to learn life skills and apply what they are learning in the classroom to their community. Students practice writing in a very applicable way, as they write about their own experiences and as a way to communicate with others in the community.
Christmas Research Project: This resource is a writing guide to help students research a Christmas topic and write about it. There are three different levels so it can be used for grades 1st through 8th. Students will be guided to either write a few sentences, a paragraph or an essay on the given topic. This is great practice for Expository Writing AND helps students learn through the writing process.
Valentine Printables: Valentine’s that are ready to be printed and used for your class. This can be a great thing to send home with students who would otherwise not be able to participate in Valentine’s activities. It can be used as a writing activity in class for the week of Valentine’s day (or anytime in the month of February). There are over 50 graphics for different valentines, as well as three different options for line spacing AND 50 phrases that students can use to go along with their valentines.
St. Patrick’s Day Persuasive Writing Project: This is a creative writing assignment to help teach students about persuasive writing. Students complete a graphic organizer to write either a few sentences, a paragraph or an essay on the persuasive writing prompt given. Then students create a visual from a list of options to teach about persuasion in multimedia.
Easter Point of View Writing: This assignment is made to help students see the importance of point of view in Narrative Stories. Students will be given the same prompt but will be instructed to write the narrative from different “character’s” point of view. There are four different variations to the same prompt and students can either write multiple stories from different points of view, or each write a story from a different point of view and share and compare.
Holiday Class Books: Writing Prompts and Sentence Starters for Every Holiday: In this activity, each student writes a page about a specific prompt. In the end, all the pages will be put together into one class book that can be put in the classroom library (or given to a student for their birthday).
BONUS: 85 Holiday Read Alouds and Activities: This is an amazing BONUS resource that comes with buying the bundle. It includes 85 activities and read-aloud books (at least 10 for every holiday). Great projects to do with your class or family to bring the magic of the holiday (and literacy) to life!
Writing and Spelling Bundle:
156 Writing Prompts (holiday, persuasive and narrative prompts are included)
Prompts are written in squares you can play a game with your students and try to make patterns with the writing prompts as you complete them (or turn it into a bingo game)
You can also cut the prompts up and draw them out of a hat or jar
Great fast finisher activity for students or bell ringer activity
31 Writing prompts at 5 different levels: Weekly journaling to meet the needs of every learner in your class! Great for journaling, writing buddies in class, pen pals or letters to the teacher.
Level 1: Prompts with tracible sentence starters for the whole page
Level 2: Prompts with sentence starters at the top of the page and lines with dots in the middle to practice writing
Level 3: Prompts with sentence starters at the top of the page and wide space lines
Level 4: Prompts with more lines for writing and no sentence starters
Level 5: Prompts alone that can be copied and pasted into a google document and students can type response
Spelling activities that work with any spelling or sight word list: 2 different levels for differentiation
15 activities that help students memorize the spelling of words (all 15 activities are differentiated to two different levels)
5 hands-on activities
5 spelling/memorization games
5 printables to practice spelling
Bonus: Printable spelling tests for students with space to correct mistakes after the test is graded
Creative Writing Bundle:
THEMES:
Pirates
Video Game
Monsters
Zombies
Atlantis/Mermaids
Space/Aliens
Medieval/Magic
Each Theme Includes 6 different writing activities (each at 5 different levels)
Fetching Quest: Students are given a prompt and must each write their own piece to the story. This can be done as individuals or in pairs.
Recipe Book: Students write a recipe that matches the theme of the novel created as a class.
Users Manual: Students write a user manual for a piece of equipment that could be or was used throughout the novel.
Map: As a class create a map that shows the location of all the places the characters went during the different parts of the story.
Wildlife Guide Book: Each student creates a plant or animal that could live in the setting of the novel
Biography: In small groups, students write a biography of each of the characters in the novel.
Each writing unit will take about 6 weeks and in the end, there will be 4 class books written by your students that can be added to your classroom library. This resource is a great way for students to practice narrative writing and technical writing (in a fun and engaging way). It also will give them an opportunity to write on their own and in partners and groups.
If you like this bundle, you may also like:
Teacher Organization Bundle
Reading Standards for Every Grade Bundle
Reading Reflections Bundle
Thematic Unit Bundle
Total Pages
1,339 pages
This Holiday Writing Bundle comes with writing prompts and assignments for each holiday throughout the year. It is a leveled resource that can be used in grades K -8th. Each activity comes in at least 3 different levels to accommodate a variety of learners.
The purpose of these activities is to teach writing standards through holiday content. This product helps students to be engaged and enjoy writing, while still learning important writing skills.
This Product Includes:
Halloween Writing Prompts: Text Structure-This resource uses Halloween prompts to teach students to write using graphic organizers that work for specific text structures. It teaches sequencing, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, and description.
Save That Turkey! ELA Activity: Help the turkey escape from Thanksgiving Dinner! This ELA Thanksgiving printable packet. It comes with 4 different activities, each with two levels of differentiation. Great for writing review the week of thanksgiving. It teaches topics such as; characterization, parts of speech, narrative writing and a gratitude quick write.
Service Learning Project: These printables include step by step instructions for students to set up a Service Learning Project within the school or community. This can be done as a class, in groups or individually (it is also a great homeschool activity) depending on the group skill level and age. A great way for students to learn life skills and apply what they are learning in the classroom to their community. Students practice writing in a very applicable way, as they write about their own experiences and as a way to communicate with others in the community.
Christmas Research Project: This resource is a writing guide to help students research a Christmas topic and write about it. There are three different levels so it can be used for grades 1st through 8th. Students will be guided to either write a few sentences, a paragraph or an essay on the given topic. This is great practice for Expository Writing AND helps students learn through the writing process.
Valentine Printables: Valentine’s that are ready to be printed and used for your class. This can be a great thing to send home with students who would otherwise not be able to participate in Valentine’s activities. It can be used as a writing activity in class for the week of Valentine’s day (or anytime in the month of February). There are over 50 graphics for different valentines, as well as three different options for line spacing AND 50 phrases that students can use to go along with their valentines.
St. Patrick’s Day Persuasive Writing Project: This is a creative writing assignment to help teach students about persuasive writing. Students complete a graphic organizer to write either a few sentences, a paragraph or an essay on the persuasive writing prompt given. Then students create a visual from a list of options to teach about persuasion in multimedia.
Easter Point of View Writing: This assignment is made to help students see the importance of point of view in Narrative Stories. Students will be given the same prompt but will be instructed to write the narrative from different “character’s” point of view. There are four different variations to the same prompt and students can either write multiple stories from different points of view, or each write a story from a different point of view and share and compare.
Holiday Class Books: Writing Prompts and Sentence Starters for Every Holiday: In this activity, each student writes a page about a specific prompt. In the end, all the pages will be put together into one class book that can be put in the classroom library (or given to a student for their birthday).
BONUS: 85 Holiday Read Alouds and Activities: This is an amazing BONUS resource that comes with buying the bundle. It includes 85 activities and read-aloud books (at least 10 for every holiday). Great projects to do with your class or family to bring the magic of the holiday (and literacy) to life!
Save even more by buying this bundle as part of my MEGA writing Bundle…which includes 3 writing bundles in ONE MEGA BUNDLE.
Holiday Writing Bundle
Creative Writing Bundle
Writing and Spelling Bundle
If you like these resources, you may also enjoy:
Thematic Unit Bundle (teaches writing standards and reading standards through science and social studies themes).
Total Pages: 223 pages
This resource comes with a worksheet/activity for every grade (Pre-k to 12) that will guide students to determine the text structure (informational) or fictional elements (literature) of ANY text. Each grade level has a learning objective, as well as organizers and writing space to reflect on their reading and determine the text structure. There is also a notes page for important terms when looking for the text structure.