Sort Your Way to a Complete Essay!

Are your students struggling to get going on their informative essays? Are you finding that their facts and details are all over the place, making their writing difficult to read and follow? If so, we’ve got the perfect activity to help them understand how to organise facts and details from the text.

This printable resource is designed to be used during the month of October as a prewriting exercise related to the origins of Halloween. This activity requires students to read the facts about Halloween and then sort them into the correct box in the fact file.

Teacher Created Writing Resources for Upper Years

Our resource is expertly designed to assist your students in elevating their ability to organise their informational writing. It is brought to you by the dedicated educators at Teach Starter, who are passionate about empowering teachers like you to effortlessly create captivating lessons.

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