Description
These back to school writing activities are a great way to get your students engaged in writing at the beginning of the school year. This back to school writing center is jam packed with ten different writing activities to give students choice and practice the different writing standards. This writing center is a great addition to literacy centers or writing centers. When students get to choose their writing piece, they truly write more and love to write. It is important to give them that choice so that they can become confident writers.
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Writing Pieces That Are Standards Based:
This resource contains writing pieces that align to the writing standards so that students are continuously exposed and reintroduced to these types of writing pieces. Students will enjoy writing about different back to school/August/September topics with these different writing pieces.
Spiral Your Writing Through The School Year: When you use the monthly writing centers, your students will receive continued practice of the writing standards. Each monthly pack contains the same types of writing so that students are able to continue to strengthen their writing skills in each area. NO MORE EXPLAINING WHAT TO DO EVERY TIME THEY GO TO THEIR WRITING CENTER! What a dream, right?
Give your students the freedom to choose: Create a menu board with examples for your students so that they can choose which writing piece they want to write. By giving them the freedom to choose, they will enjoy writing and will probably write more.
Your students are receiving extra writing practice: I know that I have a difficult time fitting writing into my daily schedule. By incorporating writing into my guided reading centers, students are writing more than ever before! They feel more confident with their writing by getting the extra writing time during their center time and they write more since they get to choose the type of writing piece.
Included in this resource:
-Labels for different writing pieces
-Writing station sign
-Vocabulary picture cards
-Writing prompts
-Book review
-Lists
-This or that? opinion writing
-Picture this
-How to stories
-KWL Charts & informative writing stories
-August Story Starters
-September Story Starters
-Extra writing paper
Primary lined and intermediate lined pages are included!
What are other teachers saying?
“BEST writing station out there! My kids LOVE this and look forward to a new one each month. Can’t live without it.” – Pam S. {thanks, Pam!}
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First Week Of First Grade Activities
Name Crowns | Back To School Name Practice
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