The editable back to school write the room activity is a fun way for students to work on writing & reading skills with low prep time for you!
These free pre-writing printables give kids practice with common strokes that are found in letters, and can be used in many different ways!
Are you looking for an effective way to organize your students' interactive writing notebooks and folders? I've used writing notebooks for several years and have made changes along the way to find the best possible way to use them. In this post, I will show you how to set
Use these free Writing Folders and freebies to give your writers support during their independent writing time. Find all our FREE Writing Printables HERE. If you are a subscriber to my newsletter, you can download all the printables that go with it for FREE! Not a subscriber? Simply subscribe HERE! NOTE: If you are already a ... Read More about Writing Folders – for K-5 Learners
Do you teach a Community Helpers Preschool or Kindergarten Unit? You will LOVE this fun set of pretend play learning centers and no prep worksheets.
When I think about student writing, one of the most difficult concepts to teach is sentence fluency. Much of excelling at fluent writing revolves around students’ background with literacy. Certainly,...
Paragraph writing seems to always be a tough skill for students to master. Luckily, that can change with the RACE writing strategy...
Do you teach your first and second-grade students to learn how to write a paragraph? In this post, I share ideas, lessons, and activities for students to learn how to write their own paragraphs in a structured way. Before I dive in, I wanted to let you know you can watch or listen to all […]
Happy Saturday everyone! Today, I wanted to share a new writing rubric that I created with my students this week for their personal narratives/stories. I don't know about you, but my students always have a hard time assessing their own writing. Plus, I always have such a hard time grading it (I always procrastinate with grading writing for this very reason!) because it can be so subjective to grade. Over the years, I've learned the answer to these two issues- RUBRICS! Rubrics are such a great way to help your students learn to assess and judge the quality of their own writing. The best part of using rubrics is that my students help to make them, so they take ownership of them which in turn makes them more meaningful to the kids. Each day this week, we looked at different 2nd grade writing samples (from other classes) and judged the writing in each area on the rubric. As we judged them, I helped the kids write the criteria for each section on the rubric. We found that using the words ALL of the time, MOST of the time, SOME of the time, and NONE of the time were easy to use for a 4, 3, 2, 1. Here is the completed rubric if you'd like to download it and use in your classroom! Comparing it to a cheeseburger was a fun way to help my students understand the difference between a 4, 3, 2, and 1. We talked about how a 4 is like a deluxe cheeseburger with all of the toppings- it can't get any better! A 3 is a complete cheeseburger but is missing some of those yummy details. A 2 is a burger with just a bottom bun- there is a lot missing! A 1 is just a bottom bun- no one wants to eat this because it's no good at all! What are some ways that you use rubrics in your classroom? I'm linking this up with Heather at Peacocks and Penguins- be sure to check out her linky for some great ideas! Have a great weekend!
How to set up and organize a writing center in your pre-k, preschool, or kindergarten classroom. See pictures of my writing center and material suggestions.
These are steps to teaching preschoolers how to write their name. It comes with an editable name writing practice template for kids too!
PRIMARY WRITING - UNIT 3 I am so excited to teach this narrative writing unit! This writing curriculum is geared for kindergarten, first grade and can even be used in second grade classrooms. In Unit 3 , we are learning how to write a personal narrative . We practice writing about what we l
Using middle school mentor texts to teach narrative essays that focus on developing point of view, dialogue, character motives, and more
Help your students expand their writing skills with these teaching ideas on writing a paragraph before they need to know how to write a multi-paragraph.
Some ideas for teaching plot elements to help students recall stories in sequential order, summarize stories, and understand theme.
I've put together 30 poetry activities for reading poetry, writing poems, and incorporating poetry into your other subjects and lesson plans.
FREE PreWriting Worksheets for students to practice single letter strokes. Your kids will practice vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and intersecting lines curves, and shapes. Fine Motor Tracing with a purpose!
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR NAME It is so exciting when children become curious about how to write their name. I believe teaching them to write their name should be the first word they learn how to spell . It is personal, concrete and helps them realize that putting letters together in writing has me
Kids love Room on the Broom sequencing activities. Work on retelling, identifying characters, and more with the unit I'm sharing about today!
These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
Kids love Room on the Broom sequencing activities. Work on retelling, identifying characters, and more with the unit I'm sharing about today!
This is a tool to track ESL ELL EFL EAL EL ESOL students' language growth. It includes EVERYTHING you need to successfully track your students throughout the school year. This resource aligns with WIDA state language learner expectations and can do descriptors. **It's an excellent progress monitoring tool to track growth in preparation for the state ACCESS test. This resource is a BUNDLED progress monitoring assessment for EL Third Graders. ****SHARING with your department or team? You MUST purchase multiple licenses of the product, one for each teacher that will be using the resource. Thank you!*** This project includes the reading, writing, listening, and speaking assessments as seen in my individual versions. If you own my individual versions, you already own part of this bundle, please verify this before purchasing. Includes: 5 levels of assessments (x2 assessments for the reading, writing, listening, speaking). **Newly added listening spring assessment** Guided scripts & teacher checklists for grading Rubric & tracking forms Check out the BUNDLES! Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade MEGA BUNDLE Check out the individual Writing Assessments! Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Check out the individual Listening Assessments! Kindergarten First Grade Second grade Third Grade Fourth grade Fifth grade Check out the individual Speaking Assessments! Kindergarten First Grade Second grade Third Grade Fourth grade Fifth grade Check out the individual Reading Assessments! Kindergarten First Grade Second grade Third Grade Fourth grade Fifth grade ****TPT Credits**** Leaving feedback gives you TPT credits to use for future purchases! Thanks in advance! ****File Details**** Please make sure you are able to open this file type before purchasing. ****Terms of Use**** These products were created by ©ELL Breaking Barriers and are copyright protected. Download for individual/classroom use only. Please purchase additional licenses to share with collogues. Do not share or copy downloads. Products are not to be used for commercial use and by downloading the copyrights remain with ELL Breaking Barriers. This download contains copyrighted graphics. You may not sell, redistribute, recreate, or use in your own commercial creations. Pictures of my product are allowed, with credit included & a link to my store. ****Contact**** Website [email protected] Facebook Instagram ****Resources you might like**** ESL Progress Monitoring, LISTENING, SPEAKING, WRITING K-5 Newcomer Support Engaging Games and Activities Teaching Character Traits Enjoy!! ELL Breaking Barriers
The start to the school year for newcomer ELLs can be overwhelming and nerve-wracking. It is our job to set them up with tools to help them feel comfortable exploring a new language in a
It's the end of the year and amazing things are happening in kindergarten! This week we completed our animal research projects. These kiddos blew me away! I wrote a blog post all about writing animal research papers in kindergarten HERE if you would like to see how I get this started. Today I will share an update on how our research papers went this year and a little freebie at the end to get you started. I used a class set of books we received from the Kiwanis earlier in the year. They are from Scholastic and come in sets of 5. Each book has lots of pictures of different kinds of animals so students have choices regardless of the book they pick. Once students picked their book they went to do a little reading on their own. They picked an animal from the book and started writing. I encouraged them to draw a picture first to really get to know their animal before they decided what facts they were going to share. I didn't expect them to jump "write in" and start writing but they did! The class was silent as they went to work writing about their animal. Some sat around the floor to find a quiet area for their research and some build little privacy areas around themselves so they wouldn't be bothered. A little privacy with folders and her book so she can get to work! A quiet spot on the floor was all this one needed to get focused. The thing that always amazes me about these research projects is that students that rarely write a full sentence suddenly are writing pages because they are writing about something that INTERESTS them! That's what we want right? Don't get me wrong, we always have choice in our classroom when it comes to writing but this project just really inspires students to do more. I had to have this one read to me first but once she read it I got it! ANTS! This sweetie spoke very little English when she came to school and now she is writing her very own research papers on her own. What an accomplishment! "Ants is bug are red" Remember what I said about kiddos that don't write very much. They write "I like..." and are done with it on a daily basis? Well this kiddo gives me that a lot but today was totally different. Notice the phonetic spelling....no copying out of the book here! He did his research and wrote what he wanted to write about his creature. Check out those finger spaces too! Ok, now for the FREEBIE! If you would like this ALL ABOUT page just click HERE. It also includes an All About Beavers page that I use the week prior during our Reading Street Building Beavers unit. I blogged about that HERE. It's a great way to do a group research project first before sending your kiddos out on their own. Thanks for stopping by today! It's been a little while since I have blogged about ANYTHING and it feels good to share a little fun we've had in the classroom! We only have a few weeks left....I don't know exactly and I refuse to countdown. (#takedownthecountdown) I am enjoying every last second with my kiddos! Save this post for later!
This free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is perfect for practice with making simple sentences for beginning writers!
Persuasive writing is a form of nonfiction writing that encourages creative word choice, the development of logical arguments, and a convincing summary. Elementary children can be guided through a series of simple steps in an effort to develop their persuasive writing skills. Practice is the key to successful paragraph
We love this Dandelion Wish Craft for a variety of times throughout the year. Use this as a beginning of the year activity to brainstorm what goals students would like to accomplish this year. Use this as a New Year’s activity after Christmas break to imagine what this year will bring! Use this as an ... Read More about Dandelion Wish Craft + Writing
These Editable Name Worksheets are great for preschool, prek, kindergarten, or 1st grade students to use to practice identifying, reading, and spelling their names all developing and growing their fine motor skills!
Imagination Workout Printable Click the link above to download Attalie’s Imagination Workout free printable art worksheet.
Item description This Back to School Math and Literacy Packet is perfect for the beginning months of August and September. The worksheets are themed with apples and back-to-school graphics while providing an introduction to basic skills covered in the first two months of school. The worksheets in this packet come in two forms: full page or 2 per page. The option to print 2 per page saves ink and paper! Included in this packet: ✻ Counting worksheets- dab or color, matching, cut and paste, and tracing the answers. ✻ Number sense ✻ Number sequence ✻ Color by number ✻ Patterns ✻ Roll and Trace A-F: uppercase and lowercase ✻ Trace A-Z: uppercase and lowercase. (Use sheet protectors and let students trace with dry erase markers for extended use!) ✻ Color by letter ✻ Concepts of Print Cards- Used in teaching- Laminate or print on cardstock for durability. ✻ Sort letter/number (concepts of print review) ✻ Rhyme ✻ Letter match: uppercase and lowercase ✻ Letter Sounds A-Z ✻ Name writing practice worksheets ✻ Daily sign-in strips: Cut out strips to let students sign their name daily and place in attendance box or board. ✻ All About Me worksheet ✻ My phone number practice ✻ First Day Self Portrait ✻ All About Me mini-book
This construction classroom transformation is a fun and engaging way to review writing concepts before state testing!
An escape room in the classroom is a super fun way to engage your students in any topic. Make one easily with the worksheet you already have!
