Writing Bundle: Personal Narrative, Informational, Opinion & Fiction 2ND GRADE

My second grade writing bundle includes 4 ready-to-use writing units to help you teach personal narrative, informational reports, opinion essays, and fiction narrative with ease. Each done-for-you unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write. As an added bonus, this bundle also includes my poetry writing mini unit! 

If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your existence, or binge-watch reality television—because it’s just that frustrating and overwhelming—I made this resource for you.

If your students dread writing time more than meatloaf in the school cafeteria…I made this resource for them, too.

Teaching writing can be tough. Teachers tell me that their district-provided writing curriculum is:

• too long
• too wordy
• too complicated

Or worse, they don’t have any curriculum at all. Yikes! 

But my second grade writing bundle makes teaching writing easy. This HUGE bundle takes all the guesswork out of teaching writing and gives you the tools you need to teach engaging and effective writing lessons without breaking a sweat.

 This HUGE MONEY-SAVING bundle has EVERYTHING you need to effectively teach a full year of writing to students in second grade, including 4 major units of study:

• Personal Narrative: Students learn how to write a small moment story with dialogue, a strong lead, interesting word choice, and paragraphs.
• Informational Reports: Students learn how to craft a strong lead, choose interesting details, write topic and concluding sentences, and structure paragraphs. 
• Opinion Essays: Students learn how to use supporting facts and reasons, write topic and concluding sentences, and structure paragraphs.
• Fiction Narratives: Students learn how to write dialogue, paragraphs, and transitions, and how to create strong characters, a problem, and a solution!

That’s 32 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons and activities! And all you have to do is print and teach. The lesson plans are that simple. Seriously.

Student-friendly mentor texts make it easy to provide illustrative examples of new writing skills. You don’t have to waste your time and money hunting down just the right book.  Focused mini lessons and daily writing tasks simplify the writing process helping ALL students, even reluctant writers, experience success. Preprinted anchor charts make it easy to model new skills and engage in shared writing without wasting valuable time. 

And best of all, my writing bundle makes writing fun for your students. Short, focused lessons keep students engaged. Simple, direct writing tasks help kids develop confidence.

Choice empowers students to write about things they care about and makes them more invested in their writing. And that’s a big deal because students who enjoy writing and get lots of practice perform better on standardized testing. 

My writing bundles for grades 2-5 have received over 5000 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews! So, if the thought of teaching writing leaves you more frazzled than a day with no wifi, this resource was made for YOU!! 

How Our Writing Bundles are Aligned with the Science of Reading:

1. Structured writing routine: Our writing bundle is organized into 4 genres. Each 8-week unit is carefully structured, beginning with foundational skills before moving into more advanced skills. Students are taught a systematic approach to writing including: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
2. Explicit instruction: Daily lessons begin with explicit instruction including access to examples via mentor texts, modeling, and directed practice. Each skill is broken down into bite-size pieces so that students can learn one skill at a time. Students practice skills independently, working on one sentence or paragraph at a time.
3. Differentiation: Writing is differentiated through small group instruction that provides reteaching, additional practice, and support at appropriate levels.
4. Daily opportunities to write: The majority of the writing lesson is reserved for independent writing time, providing students with large blocks of time to write and practice skills every day. 
5. Demonstrates the connection between reading and writing: Mentor texts provide concrete examples of writing skills and allow children to experiment with and apply sophisticated skills and language in their own writing. In addition, constructing their own writing pieces helps students recognize, connect, and understand these strategies when reading.  

What’s Included:

• Detailed teacher directions and suggestions for simple implementation
• Unit-at-a-glance calendar for each unit
• 7 exclusive videos walking you through how to get the most out of these writing units
• 160 days of lesson plans that include guiding questions, materials, mini lessons, student work tasks, student share tasks, intervention, and several extension activities
• 55 original mentor text passages
• 9 sets of task cards
• 50 teacher anchor charts (blank and filled in versions)
• 57 student anchor charts and printables for writing notebooks
• Conference and goal-tracking forms
• Writing grades tracking forms
• Rubrics for all four genres
• List of 40 additional mentor text books (optional)
• Variety of writing publishing papers
• Student writing notebook covers and dividers
• Teacher notebook covers and binder spines
• Multiple ideas for author share celebrations
• DIGITAL writing notebooks on Google Slides