3rd grade writing

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.

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 »

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.

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

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

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

By using summer writing prompts for 3rd grade, your child can create a dynamic journal filled with a variety of writing samples. Take a look today!

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!

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 […]

Writing creative stories in second or third grade. 6 great tips for great writing time!

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

The 3rd-grade writing prompts are designed to help children tap into their imagination. It can also be used to express their feelings.

Set the Stage to Engage with this complete writing classroom transformation! This 3rd-5th grade resource pack includes activities focusing on transition words, paragraph writing, editing, grammar, adding 'voice', details, prepositions, and much more! #ClassroomTransformation #SetTheStagetoEngage #FourthGrade #WritingResources #WritingConstruction

Expanding Sentences Anchor Chart and Mini-Lesson

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!

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…