Paired Passages with Informational Writing Prompts 4th & 5th Grades -Adaptations

Use these paired passages with a highly engaging writing prompt to keep students engaged during your dreaded writing block! Students will read the two sources and the writing prompt, plan out their essay, and write a four- or five-paragraph informative essay.

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This Paired Passages Informative Writing Prompt Includes:

• Text Source #1
• Text Source #2
• Writing Prompt: How do Adaptations Help Plants and Animals Survive?
• Planning Sheets
• Writing Paper

Spark a love of writing with this high-interest writing prompt.  A great way to meet multiple standards with one activity.

Standards:

• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2
• Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1
• Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. -CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9

Ideas for Use:

• Individual Writing Practice
• Whole Group Instruction
• Partner Practice
• Substitute Plans
• Send Home as Practice
• ELA Work Stations or Centers
• Assessment

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I am the author of each text, I just used different author names so students could practice citing different names.

*This was designed to be perfect practice for state writing tests! Directly aligned with Florida’s FSA format, but probably similar to your state, too!

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