Forms of writing

Four Purposes of Writing

There are many types of writing in English, but here we will discuss only 4 main types of writing styles: 1: Pursuasive Writing 2: Narrative Writing 3: Expository Writing 4: Descriptive Writing

Teaching poetry in the upper grades can seem like a difficult task, but this poetry unit will walk your students through 11 forms of poetry and and 8 elements of poetry. The end product is a complete book of original poems!

Are you teaching letter writing to your 1st & 2nd grade students? Check out these prompts and activities to help introduce the 5 parts of the friendly letter! This packet includes a writing checklist, teacher/student response activities, writing papers, and a rubric for easy marking! Great for your primary writing center!

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Make A Writing Jar (Plus 101 Prompts to Fill it!). The idea here is to have a jar full of writing prompts, the ones I’ve included have a big range. I tried to include thought-provoking, serious, funny and creative, so that each time they reach into the jar they’ll be challenged with a different kind of writing and style.

How do you get students to take the wonderful narratives they come up with and get them down on paper? Here are the steps to teaching narrative writing in the primary classroom.

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Help your students expand their writing skills with these teaching ideas on writing a paragraph before they need to know how to write a multi-paragraph.

Tired of your students writing boring beginnings? Teach your upper elementary writers to write good beginnings for narrative writing. Get an anchor chart for different types of narrative beginnings, ideas for mentor texts, and activities to help your writers write interesting beginnings! #narrativewriting #narrativebeginnings