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Text Dependent Test Prep Writing Units BUNDLE

Grade Level: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

With this bundle, students will learn all of the skills necessary for writing strong text dependent responses. These skills are broken down into small bite-size pieces that make it easier for our students to be successful.

More about this resource

“Great resource for teaching written response for state testing. I love the interactive nature and the natural flow of the ‘I do, We do, you do.’” Delaney D. (Reading Response Essay Writing)

“When prepping students for high stakes testing, reading paired texts and responding by writing a constructed response comparing and contrasting the two texts is one of the most challenging skills for students to master. This unit is straightforward, engaging, and easy prep. Great, rigorous practice to help students gain confidence with this difficult skill.” Leslie B. (Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Reading Response Essay)

If your students would rather eat fried worms than write a five-paragraph essay supported by evidence from the text, this bundle is perfect for you!

If you would rather have lunch duty, bus duty, and supervise indoor recess thirty days in a row rather than teach text-dependent writing, this bundle is perfect for you!

RACE, ACE, TDA. Reading response, constructed response, evidence-based essays. Whatever your district calls it, text-dependent writing is probably going to appear on your standardized tests. And chances are you and your students are struggling with this skill.

Let’s be real…text-dependent writing is one of the most difficult skills for students to master. And for teachers to teach. Teaching kids to read the text, find evidence for their answers, refer to the text in their response, and explain their thinking is a tall order.

Luckily, we have the perfect resources to help. And we’ve combined them all into one BUNDLE to help your students learn how to construct text-dependent reading responses.

Each unit is intended to be used over a two-week time frame, but this can easily be adjusted to meet your needs. As an added bonus, this bundle includes my Reading Response Menus for FREE!

This unit was written with 3rd thru 5th-grade students in mind. I suggest looking over the preview to determine if it is a good fit for your specific class.

Included in each unit:

Detailed teacher directions and suggestions for simple implementation
10 days of lesson plans that include, materials, mini-lessons, student work tasks, and student share tasks
Original text passages
Teacher anchor charts (blank and filled in versions)
Student anchor charts and printables
Rubrics
Publishing paper

A Typical Day:

Mini-Lesson:

The unit includes 10 lesson plans with a suggested mini-lesson. The lessons include the use of mentor text passages (that are included in the unit) and anchor charts. Teacher versions of the anchor chart are included in the unit so that the teacher can project them and fill them out with the class, or print them and display them in the classroom. Small versions are included for the students to fill out and keep in their writing notebooks as a reference and to help draft their essay.

Work Time:

Students will be applying the skill from the mini-lesson into their writing each day.

Share Time:

Lesson plans include a specific task for students each day that allows them to share some piece of their writing with a partner or with the class.

How can I use this resource in my classroom?

There are many ways that this resource can be used. Here are some ideas: