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Text Based Writing Nonfiction (Grade 5)

by Gwynne, Carrie

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Text-Based Writing is ideal for preparing your fifth-grade students for state writing assessments and meeting new standards!

This series provides scaffolded text-based writing practice with essential writing forms, such as:
  • Argument
  • Cause and effect
  • Compare and contrast
  • Explanatory
  • Opinion
  • Sequence
The 12 units provide activities that prepare students to complete text-dependent writing prompts.

Each unit begins with a unit focus and lesson checklist to guide students through the learning path, which includes:
  • a dictionary page that introduces content words
  • close reading of a leveled nonfiction article
  • text-dependent comprehension questions to support understanding
  • a graphic organizer to help students organize information from the article and plan their writing
  • a text-dependent writing prompt
  • a writing evaluation that guides students in evaluating their essay
Teachers will appreciate these additional resources and features!
  • Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects help teachers encourage learning at home.
  • The reading level is provided to help identify appropriate texts.
  • The suggested learning path helps teachers pace the lesson, and makes scaffolding easy!
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