Discover various text types and learn how to effectively use them to improve your writing. Enhance your communication skills and engage your readers with different styles of writing.
It is easy to create or search for activities related to fictional literature, but what about informational text?! Most of the activities we find are the same graphic organizers, just to be used with different books. Here are some more hands-on lessons you can use with your students to dive into informational text!
Argumentative vs. Persuasive - What you need to know to teach argumentative text to your third graders. What's the difference between argumentative and persuasive text?
Teaching students to write for a specific purpose is one of my favorite skills to teach. Students enjoy drawing sketches that illustrate different writing
Learn to write a variety of text types in the classroom. Different types of writing styles and genres for students and teachers. Resources for students and teachers.
Are you confused by all the different chatroom text abbreviations? Then this text abbreviations cheat sheet is for you! With this cheat sheet, you'll quickly be able to decipher the most common text abbreviations and their meanings, making it simple to understand the conversations of others.
As we dive into 2nd quarter my reading instruction is now full of non-fiction. Most of our reading objectives for the quarter deal with non-fiction. While my second graders usually know what non-fiction is and how it is different from fiction, they often don't understand most of the conventions, text features, and how to retell. So we spend a LOT of time in our minilessons learning all we can about non-fiction. I've started out by introducing text features. I had an old poster that had a…