Learning how to write is such a complex skill. There is so much to process, from organizing thoughts to incorporating sentence structure and grammar. Students need some type of organizer to help structure what they want to say. Otherwise, they will ramble on and talk about multiple topics. Thankfully, the Write the Rainbow Writing Organizer…
Teachers have to make tough decisions about how much time to spend on standards. They want to ensure students are ready for everything in life. Therefore, some standards receive more time, focus, and attention. One of these standards involves writing. Honestly, this is a challenging skill to learn because there are so many components. Thankfully,…
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Download your FREE Writing Mini-lessons Sampler! Writing mini-lessons and follow-up writing activities for each day of the week “This is a simply and fantastic resource to use with first graders. It is a great springboard into writing. These mini lesson are just enough for first graders. They progress at just the right speed for first…
When you hear writing instruction, do you want to pull your hair out, or do you get excited? Let me be honest. For way too many years, I wanted to pull my hair out. It wasn’t necessarily because I didn’t enjoy teaching writing. It was because I was overwhelmed with the task at hand, and…
Teaching writing in small mini-lessons makes writing instruction more attainable and gives students more time to spend during their writing block, actually writing. These mini-lessons for the ENTIRE YEAR take the guesswork out of what to teach each day in writing. Simply project this onto your screen and click on the day’s lesson. Each lesson walks you through the mini-lesson, and then gives the students a writing activity to complete. Each month also includes a printable writing journal with each of the lessons.
Interactive writing is an amazing way to get your students involved in the writing process at the beginning of the school year. Allowing your students to “share the pen” with you has so many benefits. You can model the writing process and still allow the students to be active participants. This is one of my…
In all honesty, some days I love teaching writing, and others days I’m definitely not quite feeling the love. I love it because you can see SO much progress throughout the year. I feel like student’s writing abilities tell me so much about their overall reading skills. However, writing is just plain time consuming! With everything that has to…
So many times when my students begin their writing, they want help spelling certain words. I always remind them to not worry about spelling difficult words when they are writing. I don’t want them to shy away from using words that they are unsure about. My main focus during writing is the writing process, not spelling. …
Around this time every year, I start to really see improvements with my 1st grader’s writing skills. It is definitely a long process, but we eventually get there. I wanted to share some of my “must have” items in my classroom for writing this year. My coworker and I found this on Pinterest at the…
Last week, I blogged about my latest Narrative Writing packet. {You can read about it here.} I just finished my Picture Perfect Descriptive Writing packet. Just like my Narrative Writing packet, this includes 30 photo picture prompts as well as graphic organizers and writing paper. I use the full page pictures to display on…
Our new reading series at school uses a lot of photo cards. We use them to introduce our new vocabulary words and to retell our stories. The students absolutely love looking at real pictures. After learning about a fabulous site where you can purchase photographs to use, I knew that I wanted to come up…
