Writing
Mini-Lessons

Mini-lessons to help your students strengthen their writing skills in narrative and informational writing.

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Writing How-To Activities

Looking for additional practice with writing clear, step-by-step how-to essays? Do just that through these 5 scaffolded, skill-building practice tasks.

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Reading Exit Slips

Our collection of writing exit slips have been updated with a fresh new look.

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Halloween Writing Prompts

These seasonal writing prompts have been redesigned with a fresh new look and an additional version made especially to print, cut, and paste into writing notebooks.

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Back to School Writing Prompts

These seasonal writing prompts have been redesigned with a fresh new look and an additional version made especially to print, cut, and paste into writing notebooks.

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Resources for Teaching & Practicing Paragraph Writing

Use these teaching slides to explicitly teach or review writing paragraphs, then use the updated paragraph practice booklet to apply what you've learned. 

Resources Include:

• What Is a Paragraph? Slides
• Opinion Paragraphs
• Descriptive Paragraphs
• Informational Paragraphs (5 Types)
• Paragraph Booklet (with NEW versions)

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Grammar Sorts

Do your students enjoy a bit more engagement when it comes to grammar skills and grammar practice? These hands-on and interactive grammar sorts are a great way to practice key skills throughout the year. 

An additional 16 sorts have been added to this popular resource!

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Writing Warmups

Practice writing skills in a low-risk, bite-sized way with these warmup activities.

Warmups Included:

• Choose One: Get Students Writing with Straightforward and Creative Prompts
• Show Don't Tell with Emotions in Narrative Writing
• Creating Dialogue in Narrative Writing
• Improving Word Choice in Narrative Writing

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PRINTABLE Reading Pre-Assessments

The digital Google Forms reading pre-assessments have gotten a printable update! Now you can choose whether to assess your students with printables or digitally.

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Roots Images for  the Morphology Interactive Notebook

Looking to add visual cues to help your students master Greek and Latin roots? Use these new printables in your morphology interactive notebooks, complete with images for each included root, new foldables, and suggested uses in your classroom.

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Writing Teaching Slides for Procedures

Writing has arrived in All-Access Reading!

Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable posters and student handouts) to explicitly teach and practice writing procedures to your students. These are perfect for the beginning of the school year as you are establishing routines.

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Sentence Writing Practice & Warmups

Practice important writing skills in a low-risk way that only takes a few minutes each day. The first batch of writing practice activities is ready!

Resources Included:

• Strengthening Sentences Weekly Routine
• Unscramble the Sentence
• Because, But, So Sentence Expansion

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Items in a Series Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review items in a series (with colons).

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Other Comma Usage Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review other comma usages.

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Morphology Games

Practice prefixes, suffixes, and roots with these ready-to-print partner games. 

Includes:

• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Dots & Boxes

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Genre Reading Unit (Part 1)

Review types of fiction and nonfiction genres with this introductory unit. Includes posters, reference sheets, graphic organizers, essential questions, and a set of task cards.

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Outdoor Writing Activities

Don't miss these outdoor writing prompts just in time for the spring weather that's on its way! This updated resource includes 18 writing prompts, planning pages, and publishing printables. 

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Spring Writing & Grammar Resources

Engaging activities for Spring.

Activities Added this Year Include:

• Spring Grammar Task Cards
• Spring Writing Prompts

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Homonyms & Homographs Grammar Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review homonyms and homographs.

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Similes & Metaphors Grammar Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review similes and metaphors.

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Valentine's Week: Fun & Focused Curated Collection

This Valentine's Day themed collection is here to help you keep your students engaged without sacrificing learning. Whether you’re looking to incorporate seasonal skill practice into your instruction, spark creativity with themed activities, or even bring in some seasonal science as a brain break or behavior reinforcement, this collection has something to fit your needs.

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Valentine's Day Writing & Grammar Resources

Engaging activities for Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day. 

Activities Added this Year Include:

• Valentine's Day Grammar Task Cards
• Valentine's Day Writing Prompts
• St. Patrick's Day Writing Prompts

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Note: The link below goes to the main seasonal category. Click on the holiday post you wish to view.

UPDATED Reading Essential Questions

We have completely revamped and added to our collection of essential questions. We have added new essential questions for every fiction and nonfiction reading skill, as well as advanced questions to take your students' thinking to the next level.

Access any of the new essential questions in the "Posters, Passages, and Organizers" post of each reading skill. The original version of each skill's essential questions is still available with the label "OLD" at the end.

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Note: The link below goes to every reading skill's "Posters, Passages, and Organizers" post. Choose the skill you wish to download.

Idioms Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review idioms.

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Break Time Boosters
EARLY ACCESS

Give your students the brain breaks they need with these engaging activities, positive reinforcement ideas, and indoor recess games.

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Rock Your Test Prep Season
EARLY ACCESS

Start planning your test prep season early with this curated collection of test prep resources.

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Ordering Adjectives Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review ordering adjectives.

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Context Clues Teaching Slides

A set of Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to teach, reteach, or review context clues.

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Unlock the Power of Morphology Video & Curated Collection

You’ll have access to a video and a curated collection of my best free resources to help you get started with morphology (prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots).

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Winter/Christmas Writing & Grammar Resources

Engaging activities for Winter and Christmas.

Activities Added this Year Include:

• Winter Grammar Task Cards
• Christmas Grammar Task Cards
• Winter/Christmas Writing Prompts

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Calm the Winter Chaos Curated Collection

The holiday season doesn’t have to mean chaos in your classroom! Unlock a collection of over 25 free resources, plus my top 4 proven strategies that will help you keep your students engaged, on task, and motivated, even when the excitement of winter break is just around the corner.

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The 3 Rs of the New Year Curated Collection

The 3 Rs of the New Year: Review, Reinforce, and Reignite is your go-to guide to keep things productive, fun, and structured during that first week back to school after winter break.

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Fall into Engagement Curated Collection

Fall into Engagement is here to help you keep your students engaged without sacrificing your pacing guide. Whether you’re looking to incorporate seasonal skill practice into your instruction, spark creativity with themed activities, or even bring in some seasonal science as a brain break or behavior reinforcement, this collection has something to fit your needs.

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Roots Teaching Slides Set 5

Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to explicitly teach movement roots to your students.

Movement Roots: port, mot/mob/mov, tract, migr

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Gratitude Prompts

These Gratitude Prompts for 4th and 5th graders are designed to help students reflect on the small things they’re thankful for, making the weeks leading up to the holiday feel special—without leaning too heavily into Thanksgiving themes.

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Fall/Thanksgiving Writing & Grammar Resources

Engaging activities for Fall and Thanksgiving. 

Activities Added this Year Include:

• Thanksgiving Grammar Task Cards
• Fall/Thanksgiving Writing Prompts

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The Literacy Toolkit: Tackling Time Constraints

A dynamic webpage breaking down 14 strategies you can use to tackle time constraints in your reading instruction.

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Launch Your Morphology Instruction

This guide is designed to help you start with the core morphology resources and then enhance your instruction based on your students' needs.

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Fiction Stamina Stories

These stories are designed to help students build their reading stamina through continuous reading and thoughtful engagement. Five genres are included: Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mystery.

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Halloween Writing & Grammar Resources

Engaging activities for Halloween. 

Activities Added this Year Include:

• Halloween Grammar Task Cards
• Halloween Writing Prompts

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Roots Teaching Slides Set 3

Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to explicitly teach communication roots to your students.

Communication Roots: dict, scribe/script, graph, and aud

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Morphology
Pre-Assessment

A morphology pre-assessment that you can use to assess your students.

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Reader's Theater Skits

A collection of new reader's theater skits will be added to the growing collection in the membership.

Titles & Topics Added:

• Snooze Fest (Types of Stars)
• The Science Fair (The Scientific Method)
• Milky Way Madness (The Milky Way Galaxy)
• Don't Open! (Back to School)
• Back to School (Back to School)

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Roots Teaching Slides Set 4

Google Slides teaching presentations (with printable student handouts) to explicitly teach build, break, and burst roots to your students.

Build, Break, and Burst Roots: rupt, fract/frag, and struct

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