This Work on Writing MEGA BUNDLE is a combination of 6 Different Resources that I use in my Work on Writing Center throughout the whole school year!
DIGITAL OPTIONS NOW INCLUDED:
We have now added Google Slide activities to accompany each unit. You can click on the Google Slides link, make a copy, and now begin using it with your students. You can add the Google Slide links to Google Classroom, via email, Microsoft Teams, and Seesaw, etc. This will give you the ability to provide the unit activities digitally to your students.
This resource includes 6 Resources:
Holidays Through The Year Tab-Its® (25 Tab-Its® Booklets)
Included in this bundle will be:
✿ September: Back to School, Constitution Day {includes a Close Reading passage to be included in the Tab-It® booklet with text-dependent questions}
✿ October: Columbus Day, Fire Safety, Halloween
✿ November: Veterans Day, Thanksgiving
✿ December: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa
✿ January: New Year, MLK, Jr. Day {that includes a Close Reading passage}, Chinese New Year {includes information brochure}
✿ February: Groundhog Day, Presidents Day, Valentine's Day
✿ March: St. Patrick's Day, Spring
✿ April: Easter, Earth Day
✿ May: Mother's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day
✿ June: Father's Day, Summer
Writing Tab-Its®
* 7 Expository Writing Tab-Its® with 4 tabs per booklet. The tabs are I KNOW ( or SCHEMA), RESEARCH, DIAGRAM, and APPLY
( or SYNTHESIZE ).
Expository Writing topics include:
All About Amphibians, Reptiles, Insects, Birds, Fish, Mammals, and Dinosaurs
* Procedural Writing Tab-Its®
Two options for differentiation
- First, Next, Then, Last
- First, Next, Then, After that, Last, Finally
Topics include:
How to Brush Your Teeth
How to Clean Your Room
How to Make Hot Chocolate
How to Make a Taco
How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae
How to Make Pizza
How to Make a S'more
How to Build a Snowman
How to Survive 2nd Grade
How to Survive 3rd Grade
How to Tie Your Shoes
BLANK How-To for the students to choose their own topic
* Story Summary Tab-Its®
Two options:
- Title, Characters, Problem, and Solution
- Title, Beginning, Middle, and End
* Opinion Writing Tab-Its®
- Open-ended Tab-Its® Booklet to be used with ANY TOPIC for opinion writing
- Tabs are Reason 1, Reason 2, Reason 3, My Opinion
Expository Writing Tab-Its®
One BIOGRAPHY Tab-Its® Booklet to be used for ANY person you would like your students to research!
Shape-Its®
- 29 different Theme-Shaped Writing Templates {black and white}
- Each template comes in TWO different sizes. A larger size with PRIMARY LINES AND a smaller size with regular lines.
- 2 - 4 different theme-shaped writing templates to choose from per month
Theme-Shaped Writing Templates included: (from Sept - June)
- bus
- apple
- pencil
- witch's cauldron
- Columbus's ship
- firetruck
- jack-o-lantern
- pumpkin
- Pilgrim and Native American
- turkey
- Christmas Tree
- Menorah
- 2015 (New Year)
- Martin Luther King
- snowflake
- groundhog
- love (word)
- Abraham Lincoln
- George Washington
- pot of gold
- shamrock
- basket with Easter eggs
- recycle bin
- Earth
- sombrero
- Mom (word)
- Dad (word)
- sunglasses
- bucket and shovel
All About Bats Theme-Shaped Booklet | Shape-Its®
{You may use ALL or SOME of the pages in this resource. You can pick and choose which activities you would like your students to complete}
- complete a Bats CAN, HAVE, ARE graphic organizer
- label a diagram of a bat
- complete a Bat-Shaped Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting birds and bats
- research a specific bat and write facts about it
- write a paragraph about the bat your student researched
- write a summary about the story Stellaluna
Halloween Writing Fun Theme-Shaped Booklet | Shape-Its®
{You may use ALL or SOME of the pages in this resource. You can pick and choose which activities you would like your students to complete. This packet is EXCELLENT to differentiate the writing activities.)
- do a Making Words activity using the words Halloween and Candy
- describe their Halloween costume and draw a picture of it
- complete a Spooky Word Search
- brainstorm ideas for a CREATIVE Spooky Story on a graphic organizer
- write their Spooky Story on lined paper
- OR instead of writing a spooky story, you can have your students SUMMARIZE a Halloween story you read to them
- conduct Spider Research on a specific spider and complete the graphic organizer
- write an expository paragraph on the spider they researched
- conduct Bat Research on a specific bat and complete the graphic organizer
- write an expository paragraph on the bat they researched
Thanksgiving Theme-Shaped Booklet | Shape-Its®
{You may use ALL or SOME of the pages in this resource. You can pick and choose which activities you would like your students to complete. This packet is EXCELLENT to help you differentiate the learning expectations for your students.
- write about who the Pilgrims were
- write about who the Wampanoags were
- complete a Pilgrim graphic organizer describing what the Pilgrims ate, wore, felt, wanted, and did
- complete a Wampanoag graphic organizer describing what they ate, wore, felt, wanted, and did
- explain WHY the Pilgrims had the First Thanksgiving
- describe some of the foods that were eaten at the first Thanksgiving
- complete a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the Pilgrims and Wampanoags
- complete a graphic organizer comparing and contrasting a Pilgrim to themselves {boy and girl version included}
- write about the voyage on the Mayflower
- complete a graphic organizer where they must CHOOSE if they would rather be a Pilgrim or a Wampanoag and supply three reasons for their choice
- write an OPINION PARAGRAPH using their graphic organizer on their I Would Rather.. graphic organizer
- do a Making Words activity using the word THANKSGIVING and writing their new words inside of turkeys
- write about that they do on Thanksgiving
- write about what their favorite Thanksgiving food to eat
- blank lined paper template included to add your own topics to write about
