Informative text writing

Hello Readers, This is Marcie from Sunny and Bright in First Grade. I am back with another differentiated close reading unit for you today! I hope you and your students will enjoy my Jellyfish Close Reading Mini Unit! This is a great, informational text based on jellyfish. It is written on three different levels of text and vocabulary complexity. I have done all the differentiation for you! Close reading questions, writing prompts, and graphic organizers are also included. This is the…

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Informational nonfiction text structure anchor chart 2nd 3rd 4th 5th grade reading

Informative Writing is one of the most important types of writing we teach our students. In this post I'm sharing 5 tips for How to Teach Informative Writing and details about the Informational Writing Mini-Unit resources created for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students. #informationalwriting #firstgradewriting #secondgradewriting #literacycenters

Anchor Chart I made for 1st Grade Informational Text Features

Do you use the Hamburger Model to teach paragraph writing? I used to use generic organizers and it worked okay but I noticed that it was dif...

My students are having so much fun with our informational writing unit and they are learning so much. The process we are using has really helped them to organize their writing and has given them a much better understanding of non-fiction text structures (which has also helped them with comprehension of non-fiction text). I am so excited about this unit that I wanted to blog about it: Here are the basic steps we have followed: 1. We started by making a list of "expert topics" or topics they…

We have been diving into nonfiction over the past few weeks with a unit on colonial America. One of the key things we have been looking at are how various text structures contribute to the reader's o

How to write a paragraph hamburger anchor chart; main idea/topic sentence; supporting details; closing sentence/conclusion; text evidence