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Informational Writing-Sustainable Print for Kindergarten

Do you teach informational writing? I do and I used to hate it. I would gladly teach narrative writing all day long, but informational writing? No thanks. Last year things changed, now I love teaching informational writing! Read this post to learn about how I use informational writing examples, informational writing graphic organizers, informational writing anchor charts, informational writing hook activities, and more to teach informational writing with ease!

Here are some strategies to teach students how to write an informative text so they can write a book about an animal.

Visual aids in the form of a hamburger showing the main elements of an explanation text.

My new obsession this year has been making and using anchor charts for my lessons. Here are just some of the anchor charts I have made this year. Some of these charts are original ideas but many are ideas I have seen and used from other teachers. I am not good at drawing so I use clipart from my computer to add pictures to my anchor charts. I print them out and glue them onto the chart! It’s so much easier and looks so much better than what I could draw! I also laminate my anchor charts so I…

Informational Text about Penguins and TONS of other great printables!

Nakayla | ⋒ 2nd Grade Teacher’s Instagram post: “Nonfiction Text Features! 🌟 Today we spent some time reviewing text features. It is not only important for them to identify them, but…”

Find out how we do informational and expository writing in second graders. It's all about animals. We gather our facts, work with our facts, and then do our writing. Students (and teachers) love this process.

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

Informational text structures are the organizational patterns all writers must learn. Most people read and write for informational purposes, so...

Finally in First: Informative Reading and Writing and a FREEBIE

Karla's Kreations: National Symbols Informational Text

Picture this: You are wandering around your classroom in awe as each and every student is madly engaged in informative writing.

Last week, we finished our final project for our nonfiction text features and structures study. Now, we are working on...

Make sure to use clear and concise topic sentences that indicate the main idea of each paragraph in your writing. Practice identifying and creating effective topic sentences with these worksheets. Improve your writing coherence and organization by mastering the art of topic sentences. #TopicSentencePractice #DevelopingParagraphs #ImprovingWritingSkills #writingparagraphtopic

This KS2 resource requires children to write about what the world would be like if there was no electricity.

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.