My friend and I (Katie from Dishing it Out) have been trying to get more out of our students during our writing workshop time. We really wanted to make sure that we are helping those struggling writers and accelerating those great writers. We came up with several great ideas! I designed these cards to help each child know exactly what they are supposed to be doing during writing time.
Each student gets a card. They are labeled by letter in the corner and there are 5 groups starting with A. (The A cards are mainly for those non-english speaking students) Laminate these and put them in your writing folders or writing notebooks. The student follows these directions during writing time. So every students knows what to do. There is even a place that students can check off where they are in the writing process. You can pull groups to conference with to target skills by ability since they are grouped by letter or conference individually. We are so excited to start using these! Oh I also threw in some common mini-lesson topics to work on in your conferencing groups. I use Lucy Calkins and Jennifer Jacobson a lot in my room so most of them are from them. Let me know what you think! Click here to download!
These are AWESOME…and so useful! I love the way you have differentiated the cards so that they are relevant for each student. Thank you for sharing!
I was in the process of making some of these. I can add these to mine! Perfect! Thank you!
Mrs. Wills Kindergarten
This is my first year teaching 1st and these cards will be so usefull!! I have kids who are still drawing to those who can write 4 good sentences! Thank you so much for sharing these!!
Sue
What a great idea! Genius! Thank you!
ok one thing….i am new to primary. What is a return sweep? Sorry such a dumb question!!! girlforgod27@aol.com
Thanks! A return sweep is when they write from one end of the paper to the other. Most first graders like to write in the middle of their paper or stop short of the end and go to a new line when there is so much space left!
I just nominated you for TBA'S top ten blogs! Check it out here & grab your top ten button. http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/2011/05/top-10.html
Here is a link to my blog where I posted you in my top ten!
http://seusstastic.blogspot.com/2011/09/thank-you-mrs-saylor.html
Peace, Mel D
Oh the Places We’ll Go
These are fantastic. THanks for creating and sharing!
I love the progression you made in each card. Not too big of a jump and they can still see their progress. It is a great idea! I also like the examples that fit on the card. I look forward to showing this to my student teacher and having it incorporated in our writing workshop. Thanks for sharing!
This comment has been removed by the author.
Hi there!!
I added your blog to my Top Ten post!
Go here to pick up your reward button
http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/2011/05/top-10.html
Your blog is fantastic!!
Smiles, Crayons, and Endless Stories
Thanks for the nominations guys!!
Thank you for posting these! I will be using these with my little guys.
Lorena
These are wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. I can't wait to use them!
Dang it. Mel D and Miss J beat me to the punch. I also nominated you as one of the top ten blogs. Thanks for sharing your ideas. You are the best!
You are a Top Blog!
dailywritingtips.com will help you alot
Follow the links below for some useful writing tips @ writingclasses.com