Third grade writing

Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.

Simple tips for improving writing in your second or third grade classroom. These tips are a must if you want better writers!

I am so excited to be ‘back in the saddle’ and teaching third grade again this year! I’ve been busily working on learning the new standards and crafting a plan that works for my new students in the fall. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that my favorite two grades...Read More »

When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult

Teach students how to write a paragraph! This paragraph writing resource includes 8 important steps with graphic organizers to help your students learn to write a good 5 sentence paragraph and about paragraph structure.

It's Spring! Hallelujah! The praise team at my church allowed the little ones to come up and play "drums" for this song. How cute! G...

Check out Narrative Writing Prompts & Worksheets for kindergarten-4th grade! There is a variety of prompts & worksheets to use in your room!

Have you ever found yourself googling, ‘how do you teach third grade writing?’ or tearing your hair out wondering the best way to teach grade 3 writing? Well don’t worry, I’m going to share the steps that you need to take so that you feel confident in how to teach 3rd grade writing! In this post, I discuss modeling, vocabulary, as well as things like writing prompts and revising/editing. This post is perfect for new third grade teachers!

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Need writing ideas for kids? Grab 40 printable writing prompt cards or third through fifth graders, ages 8 - 10.

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…

Narrative writing lesson plans for third grade! The best mentor texts, story prompts and lesson ideas to keep students engaged and get them ready to write creative stories.

Research and writing in 3rd grade. How I used Time For Kids to motivate reluctant writers.

Informative Writing is one of the most important types of writing we teach our students. In this post I'm sharing 5 tips for How to Teach Informative Writing and details about the Informational Writing Mini-Unit resources created for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students. #informationalwriting #firstgradewriting #secondgradewriting #literacycenters

Find information, tips, and ideas in this blog post for teaching your third grade students about informational writing. Included you will find tips for engaging your students in the informational writing process. Read it today, or pin it and save it for later!

Follow this step-by-step lesson plan to teach your students how

Writing doesn’t have to be hard. Whenever I talk to fellow teachers about what they HATE teaching… it always seems to be writing. Why is that? I theorize that it’s because writing is very personal. There’s no cut and dry methods that work for ALL students. It is also time consuming to teach AND especially […]

HOW TO TEACH PARAGRAPH WRITING GRADE 3 is fun and engaging with these no prep writing activities!

Help your young writers with these 22 free opinion writing prompts for your first, second or third grade classroom. Free from The Curriculum Corner.