“Find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
Deepak Chopra
Writing concepts and skills are made simple through direct and systematic instruction. Fun and colorful organizers will guide students in using the main processes of writing (planning, drafting, revising, editing). Students will learn how to plan and organize their ideas, use transitions correctly and effectively, use descriptive words to add interest to their writing, revise and edit for punctuation and spelling. They will learn how to write 5 sentence paragraphs, as well as 5 paragraph essays. They will also learn the structure of writing a good fiction story.
Awakening Potential For Reading Success will give you everything you need to teach a child to become an effective writer.
Five graphic organizers are included:
1) Writing Planning/Organizing Graphic Organizer-Cake Paragraph
2) Cake Paragraph Essay-5 paragraph essay graphic organizer for writing
3) Writing Revising and Editing- Juicy T. C.A.P.S.
4) Writing with Transitions-Transitions list with Over 90 Transitions
5) Fiction and Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer-Pathway of the Plot
The Cake Paragraph is a fun way for students to plan and organize their writing for five sentence paragraphs and other similar writing formats.
This planner helps students to plan and construct a complete 5 sentence paragraph:
-Topic Sentence
-First Detail Sentence
-Second Detail Sentence
-Third Detail Sentence
-Conclusion Sentence
Students love to ‘eat the cake’ (cross off with an erasable marker) on each section as they complete it in their writing. With the Cake Paragraph, students can make their writing delicious!
The Cake Paragraph Essay is an incredibly helpful graphic organizer for supporting students with planning and organizing their writing for the 5 paragraph essay format. All of the elements of each paragraph correspond to different parts of the cake (which makes it a wonderful transition from the Cake Paragraph organizer).
Students can use this organizer for planning out their ideas before writing their rough draft.
5 paragraph essay format:
-Introduction paragraph with attention grabber, thesis statement, intro to details, and lead-in sentence
-3 body paragraphs with topic sentence, 3 detail sentences, and conclusion sentence
-Conclusion paragraph with restatement of thesis and details, and final concluding statement
Great for all students, in particular those with dyslexia and learning disabilities. With the Cake Paragraph Essay, you can make writing delicious!
This graphic organizer makes the revising and editing process fun! Students love to choose ‘juicy’ or descriptive words for their writing (and pick what flavor of juice he will use).
All aspects of the revising and editing process are included:
-‘Juicy’ words (descriptive words)
-Transitions
-Capitalization
-Punctuation (commas, apostrophes, periods)
-Spelling
Students love to cross off each letter in the acronym as they complete it in their writing. And they love it when Juicy T. C.A.P.S. gets to drink his juice (laminate the sheet and they can use erasable markers to fill and empty his cup)!
This transitions list has the most commonly used transitions, organized into categories by type of use, and also color coded by order of use.
This is the perfect reference sheet to refer to when you are revising your writing using the Juicy T. C.A.P.S. revising organizer!
Using transitions is an important part of good quality writing, because they make for a smooth, pleasant, and clear reading experience.
Your students will find this transitions list so helpful, and they can refer to it all the time as they’re writing!
Pathway of the Plot visually displays all of the essential elements of a good fiction or narrative story:
-Introduction
-Rising action
-Climax
-Resolution
The visual outline of Pathway of the Plot will help students to plan and organize their fiction writing to create interesting and engaging stories. Let’s get writing!
Pathway of the Plot can also be used as a comprehension skills tool for helping students analyze plot structure in stories they are reading.