Using this Writing Tweets Activity, students choose a prompt about the included story "Making a Milk or Juice Carton Bird Feeder" and produce a writing sample.

Using W.5.1 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

Using W.5.5 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

Using this Digital Dilemma Research Activity, students use digital tools to follow directions on a task card.

Using Explain It All Informative Explanatory Writing Activity, students write informative and explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Using W.5.3 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Using W.5.6 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Using this Author At Work Writing Checklist Activity, students use writing checklists when writing narratives, informative essays, and opinion essays.

This Now Presenting - Report on a Topic Activity is a fun way for students to learn about Summarizing and presentations!

Using this Help From Other Author's Activity helps, students collect story elements from literary or informational texts to write their own story.

Using this Find It In The Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Using W.5.4 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, studentsproduce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Using this Why oh Why Story Details Activity, students answer the questions "What happened?" and "why did it happen?" while citing their textual evidence.

Using this Take Note Writing Activity, students use a variety of print and digital resources to research about a topic.

Using Enhancing My Presentation Activity, students add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to enhance the development of main ideas.

Using Get Ready to Write Activity, students write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of purposes, and audiences.

Using this Look in the Text Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Using W.5.2 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas andinformation clearly.

Using W.5.7 Common Core Activity, students conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

Using this Get to the Point PowerPoint Activity, students learn to include multimedia components such as graphics, sounds, and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.