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It’s time! Get your kids talking and warm them up with these fun Would You Rather slides for Winter! 27 different slides with bright clipart engage kids in learning about each other and sharing their ideas. Use during classroom meetings, morning meetings, brain breaks, or class parties!
Zip File | 35 pages
Want your kids to learn to write authentically? Teach writing using the writer’s workshop framework included in this resource: follow the writing process and learn from mentor authors! Printable and editable resources are included to help you prepare, plan, organize, and assess!
Zip File | 200 pages
Build an interactive writing station full of materials to inspire students in their writing! Ideas for writing topics, fun pictures to spark ideas, transitional phrases, sensory details, and tools for writing personal narratives!
PDF | 42 pages
Printable, buildable dice to help kids get started writing creative stories! Each die has six different starters; one on each side. Students roll the dice and write using the sentence starter on the side of the dice that faces up. Easy to start writing station!
PDF | 24 pages
This writing genre characteristics sort can help students distinguish between the elements of narrative writing and expository writing. I have used this sort in teacher trainings as well in order to help teachers differentiate between these genres as well.
PDF | 3 pages
This bundle includes everything you need to plan, analyze, and grow student writing in narrative and expository or informational genres!
Zip File | 300+ pages
This poster set introduces the steps in the writing process and provides a brief, kid-friendly statement to describe each one. Steps included are prewriting, planning, drafting, revising, editing, conferencing, publishing, and sharing.
PDF | 12 pages
This poster set includes a poster for each step in the writing process along with a brief and kid-friendly statement to explain what the purpose of that step is. The posters included are.
PDF | 13 pages
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with this bundle of pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for balanced literacy professional development. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the writing process, expository and narrative characteristics for different grade levels, editing vs. revision, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 36 pages
Hands on, meaningful activities help your students zoom in on small moment. Students will learn to add detail and development to write zoomed-in pieces! In this unit, students will read books with zoomed-in moments and discuss what the other did to zoom in, brainstorm small moments to write about, identify the different types of details writers add to their writing, and try out these strategies to explode a moment in her own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
PDF | 41 pages