Best Practices Writing Instruction Provides Frequent Opportunities for Practice with Standards-Based Science & Social Studies Text Passages that Support Content Area Teaching, for Grades 3-5.
Student Resources
Use Text Passages to Introduce, Analyze, and Write Standards-Aligned Genres
Mentor Text Passages: Use the projectable PDF or the laminated card to Introduce, Model, and Analyze each genre.
Practice Text Passages and BLMs: Use the second laminated card its corresponding BLM to practice analyzing writing a genre.
Teacher Resources
Easy-to-use and explicit Lessons for each Genre to teach Writing Skills and Build Comprehension as you teach students how to respond to a text in a purposeful and focused way.
Step-by-step instruction, mini-lessons, and prompt ideas are provided, along with BLMs and writing tools, to support educators in the complex process of teaching writing.
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