August writing - Need help with thinking of writing topics throughout the year? Grab this pack that is a print and go pack covering 18 different text types. Differentiated options are provided. Use this yourself, busy teachers, beginning teachers, hand over to a relief teacher, use for homeschooling or short leave. Seasonal topics and calendar date topics are included. For grades 1 - 6 (though some pages could be used for Foundation). 166 page pdf product.

Special August calendar events included: Book Week, Science Week, World Lizards Day, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day and Back to School (for northern hemisphere schools).

August writing includes;
teacher planning page for the month (includes an editable type in option)
student monthly goals
August cover pages
text type cover pages
goal review
advertisement
sentence work (nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence stems - using conjunctions and, but, so & because, sentence types (statement, command, question, exclamation) and simple, compound and complex
narrative retells
narrative innovations
narrative planning page
narrative generation (with picture cues - black and white and colour option)
description writing
opinion writing
persuasive text
report writing
research planning pages
essay
paragraph planner page
letter writing
journal writing
response writing
procedural writing
dotted thirds writing paper
generic templates (some - not all - include editable text boxes to type your own topic)
student checklists and rubrics (writing I have done this month, rubrics = editing, recounts, narratives, persuasive texts, procedurals)
teacher text type checklist (what have you taught this month?)
166 pages (includes cover pages)


Please check your printer settings prior to printing. This product is set to letter size so please check (fit to page or print in printable area). Mostly a black and white product but some colour options are included. Northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere seasonal differences are included.
Please note: generic templates and checklists are the same in each monthly pack! Each monthly pack varies in the quantity of topics covered partly due to monthly calendar dates varying.
I hope you find this useful. Sincerely, Jennifer