Informational Writing

Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.

This informational writing anchor chart is just one example of a lesson plan from this amazing informational writing unit! Includes FREE worksheet on how to pick a good topic to write about!

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Do you teach informational writing? I do and I used to hate it. I would gladly teach narrative writing all day long, but information...

In this blog post you will find five mini lesson, in the order I would teach them, for your next informational writing unit. These mini lessons have been created based on standards and using common struggles students face with this type of writing.

The pre write stage of the writing process is important for students to brainstorm their writing ideas. In your writing lessons and literacy lessons, you need these writing graphic organizers! These planning pages are worksheets that are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade writing centers. These are narrative writing, opinion writing, informational writing, and how to writing printables. You need these for the first lesson plan in your writing unit!

One of my biggest units of the school year is my informational writing unit. This can be a tricky unit for students because students want to write with first or second person pronouns and include their own opinions. Teaching informational writing takes time and practice to help students succeed at it, especially if students have informational writing topics they are passionate about.