2nd Grade Writing-Essays Resources

❤️Looking for engaging Arctic and Polar animal writing crafts this winter? Practice informative, narrative, personal narrative, or persuasive writing with these differentiated winter animal writing crafts!

✅ Winter animals included: (10)

☑ Arctic fox, Arctic hare, Arctic wolf, moose, narwhal, polar bear, puffin, seal, snowy owl, walrus

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✏️Students can choose or be assigned an animal and write all about them! Use for research reports or simply as a writing craft!

✏️Build confidence with differentiation! Color, trace and write with different line spacing and types (dotted vs. solid lines)!

✏️Easy to make crafts! Color a picture of the animal, write and glue the writing project onto a piece of construction paper.

✏️Full size writing sheets included if additional writing space is needed. Staple the pages together.

✏️You can also put the projects together to create a winter animal booklet, or send home to share with parents!

✏️ Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, class booklets, coloring pages, and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and select the differentiated writing page that is most appropriate for each student's needs.

⭐️Comes in both a fun colorful set or a printer friendly black & white set! Use the black & white set as coloring pages!

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✅Includes: (78 pages)

✅Brainstorming Maps: (4 pages)

☑ Informative writing

☑ Narrative writing

☑ Personal narrative writing

☑ Persuasive writing

✅Differentiated writing projects: (74 pages)

☑ “This is a ____” tracing – dotted lines (10 pages)

☑ “This is a ____” writing – dotted lines (10 pages)

☑ “This is a ____” writing – solid lines (10 pages)

☑ Full page writing – large dotted lines (11 pages)

☑ Full page writing – medium dotted lines (11 pages)

☑ Full page writing – large solid lines (11 pages)

☑ Full page writing – medium solid lines (11 pages)

✅Bonus: (81 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

☑ Black & white set (78 pages)

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✅ Winter animals: (10)

☑ Arctic fox

☑ Arctic hare

☑ Arctic wolf

☑ moose

☑ narwhal

☑ polar bear

☑ puffin

☑ seal

☑ snowy owl

☑ walrus

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⭐️Looking for more winter animal activities?

Winter Animals Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for more writing crafts?

Writing Craft Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for more animal activities?

Animal Activities Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for more winter activities?

Winter Activities Growing Bundle

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This fun and engaging burger-themed rubric makes writing expectations clear and understandable for students. With four clear levels of achievement, this rubric provides valuable guidance for students to improve their writing skills.

What's Included:

• Four-Level Rubric: Detailed criteria for each level, from "Incomplete Work" to "Above and Beyond," covering essential writing elements.
• Versatile Format: Suitable for both classroom posters and individual student printouts as a guide for each student's binder/writing assignment.

⭐Writing Attempts:

Narrative
Christmas: Trapped in a Snow Globe | My Snowman Came to Life
Thanksgiving: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner | How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner

Others: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Forms of Energy in my Car - Science, Art & WRITING Project

Easter: Benny the Bunny - Easter's Surprise | NOT Bunny - Eggcelent Easter/Spring Surprise

Halloween: Trapped in a Haunted House

Persuasive | Dear Santa - Villains Edition | Who Will Guide the Sleigh | Halloween: Can I Keep My Witch?

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Do your students need some topic sentence practice? This topic vs. main idea digital lesson will have your students master topic sentences, main ideas, and the difference between the two.

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~Google Slides lesson

~Built-in reward system via mystery puzzle

~3 Worksheets to reinforce the concepts learned in the lesson

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Want a fun way to help your learner's focus on their interests? This resource breaks down a learning project into mini steps that aren't overwhelming for young learners. Just choose a topic to explore and let the learning begin.

This resource includes:

- A KWL chart-

- Two options for facts gathered when doing research from an online source or a book of your choice

- A space to create a rough draft

- A cover sheet to create an illustration to go along with your learning project

- Two options for writing paper to allow for different aged writers

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Narrative Essay Graphic Organizer Worksheets :

Includes 4 pages:
* Graphic Organizer outline (2 pages)
* Final Draft with college-rule lines (2 pages)

Print these pages front/back for easy handouts!

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8.5 x 11 inches, 200 Pages Blank Pages Paper, College Ruled, Lined Journal & Music Sheet for Writing and Music Composition

Perfect for teachers and students to write in everything they want

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Free Fall Sentence Writing Prompts with Picture Box | 1st & 2nd Grades | Occupational Therapy Support

This free resource offers fun and engaging fall-themed sentence writing prompts designed specifically for 1st and 2nd grade students. Perfect for occupational therapy support, these worksheets help develop fine motor skills while encouraging creativity and structured writing. Each page includes a picture box for students to draw their ideas before writing, fostering both imagination and sentence-building skills.

With 20 writing papers featuring fall-related images, this resource is ideal for use in the classroom or therapy sessions to make writing practice enjoyable and educational.

Help your students master CVC words with this interactive CVC Unscramble Sentences,short i Fix-It, Write-It, Cut-and-Paste, and Draw-It Worksheets! This resource is packed with engaging activities designed to improve early reading, writing, and sentence-building skills, perfect for kindergarten and 1st-grade learners.

Each worksheet includes:

• Unscramble Sentences featuring CVC words to practice correct word order.
• A Fix-It section where students correct capitalization and punctuation.
• A Write-It section for students to rewrite the sentence independently.
• A Cut-and-Paste activity where students cut out words and rearrange them into a complete sentence.
• A Draw-It activity that encourages students to draw a picture related to the unscrambled sentence.

These hands-on activities are great for literacy centers, independent work, or morning tasks. Your students will have fun while strengthening their understanding of CVC words and sentence structure!

✏️ Are your students struggling with TRANSITIONS in their writing? ✏️

✍️ Let's get writing with our Transition Words Anchor Chart! Designed for grades K-6, this resource is perfect for guiding students toward more cohesive and organized writing. Works for narratives, sequential and many more writing genres!

The anchor chart includes all essential transition words categorized by their placement in writing, making it easy for students to sequence their writing. It comes with pieces for a larger display on poster board or chart paper, ensuring visibility and accessibility for whole-class instruction. We've also included a guide for creating the anchor chart, making it effortless for teachers to set up and use in their classrooms.

Student Versions:

Enhance student learning with two versions of the anchor chart.

• ✏️ One version mirrors the teacher anchor chart, providing a reference point during independent writing tasks.
• ✏️ The second version maintains the same content but arranges it slightly differently, offering students an enlarged version.

Versatile and easy to use, our student versions are designed to support students in becoming independent and proficient writers. Whether it's for writing folders, small group activities, or individual reference, these student versions cater to varying learning styles and needs within your classroom.

Benefits:

• ✍️ Improved Writing Skills: By understanding and utilizing transition words effectively, students will enhance the coherence and flow of their writing.
• ✍️ Confidence Building: Empower students to express their thoughts and ideas more clearly and sequentially through the use of transition words.
• ✍️ Supports Differentiation: With multiple versions available, teachers can cater to varying learning styles and needs within their classroom.

Let's write!

It is a fun engaging writing task your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to Go!

Task:

1. Students are going to write in the name of each crayon eight letters to the owner to express the opinions of crayons using the Air Mail Craft Book pages.

2. Each student will follow informational writing format (topic sentence and detail sentences) for each letter.

Step by step assignment directions are giving using the book "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt as a model.

You could use this Air Mail papers to write anything letters.

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- Colored sets

- Black lined sets

- Lesson Plan

- Step by Step Assignment Directions

- Student Samples

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Need to expose your students to persuasive writing style texts? Then these differentiated Persuasive Writing Mentor Texts are a great way to show an example of a persuasive text to your students! Applicable to low, average and high leveled writers! Use this resource to help your students better understand how to write an opinion style text, using the correct structure and content!

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✏️ Low-Level Persuasive Writing Mentor Text PDF

✏️ Average-Level Persuasive Writing Mentor Text PDF

✏️ High-Level Persuasive Writing Mentor Text PDF

✏️ Mentor Texts about Banning Homework

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Looking to make your classroom more welcoming this back to school season?

This bright Writing Center Banner is a great way to welcome students and visitors into your classroom each day! It will liven up your space and motivate your students....plus, it's so cute!! Prints two letters per page for a total of 8 pages. There are also three printable pencils in different colors which can be printed out and attached to the banner to your liking.

**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**

Best of all, this banner coordinated perfectly with my best-selling Writing Tools Folder: get your students writing at a higher level by offering them a colorful and coordinated reference for your Writing Center!! This reference guide is ideal for middle school students to use during independent writing assignments. Whether it is class work, center work, writing workshop, or homework, it provides quality writing The pages can be placed in a folder, booklet, or even displayed in a writing center. It helps eliminate questions and shows students ways to write effectively. This is going to help your students work independently while writing. This product is geared toward middle school but can also be used in upper elementary. I make a bunch of these Writing Tools Folders and keep them in my Writing Center and love how it helps students become more organized and independent while writing.

This resource includes 8 Anchor Charts and 3 Cover Page Options

Character Traits which comes in 4 different colors with chevron and swirls styles. The chart contains over 100 character traits that students can use to refer to during various writing activities.

Elaboration Stems which features writing stems students can use while elaborating on evidence in their essays. This chart is essential because students can refer to them while writing but gradually start incorporating them as it becomes a force of habit.

**Other Ways to Say...**which offers students multiple synonyms for overused words such as happy or sad. Great for displaying in your writing center!

Transitions which includes a strong set of transitions every writer should be using to aid in the flow of their writing, whether it's for emphasizing, giving an example or concluding an essay!

Said is Dead! which features other words for said, which is terribly overused in my classroom when there are tons of better choices!

Use This...Not That! which features better word choices for commonly used words and expressions.

Mood...which offers a great choice of words that depict either a positive, negative, or neutral mood!

Tone...which offers a great choice of words that depict either a positive, negative, or neutral tone!

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This rubric looks at 6 different areas when students are being assessed on writing step-by-step directions. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: making sure the directions are in sequential order, including a topic, supporting sentences, exact details, and a closing sentence, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores the step-by-step writing assignment out of 18 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

Writing / Publishing paper for first, second, third, forth, or fifth grade

Printable lined paper with picture box

This product includes 6 different designs.

There are 2 pages for each design - a page with a space for a picture and a full page of lines. There are a total of 12 pages of lined paper.

These are great for final copies of any writing assignment including personal narratives, expository writing, opinion writing, informational writing, all about me, and paragraph writing.

This is a perfect lined paper template with picture box

1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade

Use this writing paper for any classroom writing assignments.

solid lines with space for primary or upper elementary

Dive into creativity with this Karate Sports Creative Writing Prompts Pack, designed for engaging writing activities & the upcoming Summer Global Games 2024 in Paris. This pack features 10 engaging prompts that enhance creative writing, discussions and group activities focused on karate. Each writing prompt encourages your students to explore their imagination and storytelling skills, improving both written and oral communication. The pack is structured with sections for first, next, and last, helping your students build coherent narratives with clear beginnings, middles and ends. Additional longer templates allow for extended storytelling, catering to more advanced writers. An illustrate your story worksheet is also available in this fun pack. Get ready to inspire your students with these Karate Sports Creative Writing Prompts worksheets, your essential resource for creativity and engagement in the classroom during the Summer.

This pack includes:

• 10 karate themed writing prompts,
• First, next, and last pages,
• Longer page templates,
• Illustrate your story worksheet.

UK and US English spelling available!

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When I was starting out, teaching my students how to properly write a book review was a struggle, so I created my own! This packet is easy to follow, fun to use, and incorporates the OREO strategy we learned for writing an opinion paragraph. This resource can be used independently by students or can be incorporated into a whole group lesson.

Includes a FREE writing rubric!

This How to Paper resource is perfect for teaching procedural writing and instructional writing. This resource provides both print and digital options to accommodate diverse classroom needs.

What's Inside:

Print Version:

• How to Brainstorming Sheet: A structured guide for students to generate and organize ideas for their instructional writing project.

• Three Graphic Organizers tailored to different levels of detail:

  • 1 Paragraph Organizer
  • 3 Paragraph Organizer
  • 5 Paragraph Organizer

• Example Papers: High-quality examples for each graphic organizer, illustrating the format and expectations for procedural writing.

Digital Version:

• Interactive Google Slides: A step-by-step guide that walks students through brainstorming, organizing, and writing their how to paper directly on the slides.
• Embedded Examples: Clear examples for 1 paragraph, 3 paragraph, and 5 paragraph papers, integrated within the slides to support student learning.
• Remote and In-Class Use: Flexible access ensures all students can participate, regardless of their learning environment.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Engaging and Structured: Keeps students engaged with visually appealing templates and clear, step-by-step instructions.
• Versatile: Suitable for various subjects and grade levels, making it a valuable addition to any curriculum.
• Skill-Building: Enhances critical thinking, organizational skills, and writing abilities through structured procedural writing tasks.

Transform your students into confident and capable instructional writers with this easy-to-use How to Paper resource. Whether in print or digital format, this resource is designed to help every student succeed in creating clear, informative, and engaging instructional texts.

Keywords: How to paper, procedural writing, instructional writing

Add this versatile and effective resource to your teaching toolkit today and watch your students thrive in their writing endeavors!

Use this quick & easy freebie in your classroom while teaching personal narrative writing! This checklist is for students to use in order to monitor and self-assess their writing. This product comes two to a page, so it is very convenient to print!

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This summer writing challenge for 1st and 2nd grade now includes a digital distance learning option in Google Slides™. Please refer to the final 7 pages of the product for the link and instructions.

These varied summer writing prompts for 1st and 2nd are both challenging and engaging!

This FREE SAMPLE from my 30-Day Writing Challenge for 1st and 2nd graders contains 3 days of writing material for your students in a printable version as well as a Google Slides™ version.

In the full product, there are 30 different writing activities (2 sheets per activity, created to be copied back-to-back and bound into a book, if you choose). For a total of 60 writing pages, you will see the following activities:

• 2 opinion essays
• 1 explanatory essay
• 1 informative essay
• 2 descriptive writing activities
• 2 narrative writing activities
• 1 "how-to" essay
• 5 journal prompts
• 5 story starters
• 2 recipes activities
• 3 newspaper articles
• 1 packing list activity
• 2 book reports
• 1 biography
• 1 restaurant review
• 1 autobiography

These writing activities are purposeful and fun. Students will find that completing all of them is challenging, but rewarding.

You can find the FULL PRODUCTS HERE (choose your grade level):

30 DAY SUMMER WRITING CHALLENGE FOR 1st-2nd GRADE

30 DAY SUMMER WRITING CHALLENGE FOR 3rd-4th GRADE

NOTE: THIS FILE NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

As of 6/9/20, this product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Technology Requirements:

• A Google Drive account
• If sharing with students, a Drive account that is linked to student Google accounts
• Can be shared/delivered on Google Classroom
• Only need access to Google Drive--no outside links to worry about!

These file can be used with iPads, chrome books, laptops, and desktops as long as your students have access to Google Drive or Classroom on a device. The digital portion of this product is on Google Slides.

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Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts as well as their minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

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This cloud of thoughts cute simple and basic graphic organizer is a great tool for students to benefit from brainstorming activities. It is can be used to many different books in any curriculum or else. Two versions are avalaible.

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• Polygons for beginners.
• Coordinate for beginners.
• Fractions for beginners.

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