Writers Workshop, Grade 3, Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, Unit Lesson Plans
This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to IV and all sessions 1- 23 of Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, 2013 edition. The lesson plans outline all components of the Mini-lessons included in the unit: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, a 30 day monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.
This unit is designed to help students learn to state clear opinions and to support these ideas with evidence. Students learn to introduce topics, support these by listing reasons, using transition words to connect the various parts of their opinion writing and to conclude. This unit moves writers from writing opinion speeches to forming cause groups to support various causes. Across the unit, there is a focus on considering audience and considering word choice in light of audience.
The new TCRWP 2013 edition of Writer's Workshop Unit 3, Shaping Texts: From Essay and Narrative to Memoir. The students will discover memoir writing and reflect on small and big ideas in writing about theories. This complete and comprehensive Writer’s Workshop Unit Bundle includes everything you need to present lessons to students and can be used as a slide presentation as well as detailed lesson plans! The bundle includes: Unit overview calendar with daily I can statements, Essential Questions and Table of Contents. Each lesson includes: CCSS, Connection, Mini lesson/Teaching Points, Active Engagement, Linking section, Conferring and Small Group Instruction, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Share / Assessment, Homework, Anchor Charts, text fig./student examples, and text sets when needed. Includes all three bends of 19 sessions and concludes with Writer’s Celebration Suggestions, invitation, and activity. This bundle is a true time saver. It will save you hours of planning and preparation. Enjoy your Writers Workshop unit bundle!
Writers Workshop, Unit Lesson Plans, Grade 3, Unit 4, Once Upon a Time, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales
This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to III and all sessions 1- 20 of Unit 4, Once Upon a Time: Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales, 2013 edition. The lesson plans outline all components of the Mini-lessons included in the unit:
Writer’s Workshop Supplemental Writing Unit, Grade 2-3, Daily Writing Skills
This writer’s workshop model supplemental writing unit is designed to develop daily writing skills we use in everyday writing for grades 2-3. There are 10 mini-lessons in this Daily Writing Skills Unit that build strong life skills. The lessons in the unit start out with students creating a To-Do List and writing a friendly letter. The students learn to write greeting cards and invitations as well as planning and organizing information for a party. The students develop information and learn how to: write and send postcards, take a message, writing emails , filling out forms, planning a budget, and concludes with learning all about surveys.
This unit includes two Google slides documents. There is 72 teaching slides and 37 pages in the digital student edition writing notebook with a detailed writing activity for each lesson in the unit.
The student notebook can be sent through the Google Classroom as one writing notebook or you can send each lesson separate. The unit is broken down into a one month unit meeting two to three times a week. A total of 10 lessons.
The product will include a PDF file with two google links that will ask you to make your own copy and rename your file.
Writing Fairy Tales Smartboard Activityis a Smart Notebook file created to enhance your unit study on Fairy Tales. This activity has 10 slides to help you write and review characteristics of a fairy tale. There are four different template backgrounds to choose from and eight fairy tale characters to drag, drop, copy and paste. You can use this activity as a whole group or literacy center on your laptop or Ipad along with Smart Notebook software. You can print the fairy tales and combine them into a class book or display them onto your bulletin board.