Lucy Calkins writing
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Teaching Comma Rules | Book Units Teacher
The CCSS requires fifth grade students to learn five comma rules. Students will find this anchor chart and flipbook as a quick easy reference.
Narrative Writing BME Chart
This is a poster I created to go with the BME narrative writing plan used by Step Up to Writing.
Show Don't Tell Charts - Distance Learning
These anchor charts will help students show description in their narrative and expository writing during writer's workshop. Do they simply list their feelings/emotions with nothing more? This product includes ways to SHOW 30 common emotions and feelings in a printable and digital format! Each chart...
Persuasive Writing Handouts - No Prep Printables
***Note*** This resource includes a digital (Google Slides) version. The digital version is intended to be used as a no-print online learning activity for distance learning. See the end page of the resource for the details and the link to access the digital version.**These worksheets are included in...
Love my firsties, seconds, and fifthsters!
Free Writing Graphic Organizers
Folded, student-made graphic organizers will change the way you teach writing! Below are three reasons why you should start using them: 1. Student Independence Folded graphic organizers build independence. Students no longer rely on pre-made worksheets to organize their ideas. All students need i...
Writing Strategies Posters, Anchor Charts & Writer's Notebook Distance Learning
These writing strategies posters and interactive writing strategies anchor charts are a must have for introducing and reinforcing tons of important writing strategies terms and concepts. Printing flexibility allows for either a poster, an interactive anchor chart, or mini (half page) posters/anchor...
Mrs. Kidd's Outstanding Owls
Launching the Writing Workshop
You may be launching your writing workshops in September with a unit that invites students to write small moments or personal narratives like in the Units of Study series. Read a sample minilesson from the Units of Study series by Lucy Calkins at this link: http://books.heinemann.com/Shared/onlineresources/E00604/SmallMomentsSession1.pdf You can view some charts that other teachers made while teaching this unit to help their students carry on with independent writing as they confer. Some of…
Writing Mini Lesson #4- Run-On Sentences | Rockin Resources
Are your students writing run-on sentences? This lesson will focus on how to correct them. These ideas are ideal for any writing curriculum and are a part of a series of mini lessons for writer's workshop designed for scaffolding through sentence structure, paragraph writing, and the writing process. Learn
Writing Descriptively using Show, Not Tell
Create a poster, laminate a reference sheet, and practice using this great show, not tell lesson. To create an interesting story, the writer needs to show NOT tell the reader about people, places, and things they are writing about. Writers can do this by creating mental pictures in the minds of the...
Adding Details Writing Poster Anchor Chart
This writing workshop anchor chart kit comes with pieces to build your own adding details anchor chart and a student-sized printable! IMPORTANT: This anchor chart is NOT EDITABLE and only comes in COLOR. Please take a look at the discounted Writing Workshop Anchor Charts Bundle for access to editabl...
GOOGLE CLASSROOM ALL YEAR WRITING PROMPTS for 2nd GRADE
Teach writing using these distance learning 2nd grade Google Classroom digital graphic organizers. You will find 60 digital writing prompts- specifically for Opinion, Narrative & Informative/Explanatory writing- that target second grade common core standards. Each writing prompt template is orga...
How I Teach Explode the Moment Writing
So often, students just tell about the large picture of an experience. They get so caught up in listing all of the “moments” of the experience that they forget to really hone in on each
Tackling the Personal Narrative, Part 1
I’ve been thinking about personal narratives a lot lately. First, I heard uber-dedicated fifth grade teacher Colby Sharp (@colbysharp) discussing his class’s struggles and successes with this form of writing in a vlog he posted on September 13. (Are you watching these? They’re terrific. So full of insight and inspiration.) The next weekend, I headed off to nErDcamp Northern New England (#nerdchampNNE) in Maine. In one session, teachers discussed the reasons elementary students are often…