Links to 7 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.

Links to 8 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2d: Provide a concluding statement or section.

Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.

Links to 18 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2a: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.

This is a fun, hands-on lesson from AtoZteacherstuff! Students go through a study of frogs while learning how to interpret and restate factual information.

While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, students will write an expository...