5th grade writing activities

Hi Friends! Confession time…writing is my LEAST favorite subject to teach. I know, I know…teachers shouldn’t have favorites! In all seriousness, teaching writing to first graders was not my favorite subject to teach. I was in a place where I thought, “If it’s boring to me, isn’t it boring for them?” I desperately needed to spice things up. That year I made it my professional goal to improve my writing instruction. I spent time reading, researching best practices and developing a system that…

Did you think teaching students to write would be a snap? I mean, you are a college-educated, certified individual. How hard could it possibly be? Well, it’s a challenge, especially when just starting out. In my classroom,

Get 10 fun ideas for Halloween writing activities, including Halloween writing prompts, story starters, write the room, design a haunted house, spooky make your own monster crafts, and more! Perfect Halloween and October writing activities for 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school students.

Calling all upper elementary writing teachers, this completely FREE opinion writing starter kit will help you teach or review opinion writing with your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. This set inclues an opinion writing anchor chart, modeled writing with coordinating guiding questions to help you teach this genre, student reference page and prompt project to get you started! You will love this free opinion writing printable set! Click today to grab it and it to your writing lesson plans!

150+ fun, creative and thoughtful 4th grade writing prompts to encourage children to express their thoughts and feelings.

Upper elementary descriptive writing activities. Includes anchor charts for expanding sentences and descriptive writing prompts.

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.

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If you have students who say, "I don't have anything to write about" then this writing activity could definitely work for you. It lends itself to pretty much any grade level. I was actually introduced