Writing Process {Anchor Charts}

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The Writing Process - Anchor Charts

My first purchasable item on Teachers Pay Teachers!!! Guys, I'm so excited! I hope you are too!

One of my favorite things to teach is writing. I have created a set of anchor charts for each part of The Writing Process {Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Proofreading, and Publishing}. These cuties would look spectacular on your Writing Wall

Check it out Here!!

I have my students track where they are in the writing process as they are writing. The different headers of the process are taped to my cabinet and each student has a clothes pin with their number on it. As they go throughout the process they move their clip. This lets me know exactly where each student is and who I need to conference with. I really love it and so do the kids. It keeps accountability on my end and theirs!

This packet contains the anchor charts & the headers for your kids to track their writing too!

Please let me know if I can answer any of your questions!

The first 3 people to add a comment telling me their favorite writing [teaching] technique and to blog about my new TPT purchase will receive the packet for free! Thanks for following my blog, as well!

Happy {almost} Hump Day!

Christmas Freebies & Math Freebie

Enjoy two Christmas Freebies! One is designed for a writing activity after reading the Christmas book

The Year Without a Santa Claus.

Click Here for the writing activity!

Here is the "Reindeer" application for those of you who do that adorable activity in your room.

This year I plan to turn their pictures black and white and they can add antlers and a red, glittery nose to their picture. I created this application to go along with the craftivity.

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We are introducing Tables next week so I made this chart to help the kids keep their thoughts organized. Tables are such a hard concept!!

Enjoy!

I plan to do this cute snowman craftivity at some point in the next two weeks. Thanks Pinterest! :0)

Descriptive Writing

My class is doing a Monster Match writing activity. We teamed up with another class in the district.

The kids start off by brainstorming. They draw their monster and label the features of the monster. Make sure to have them be specific. Then the kids make a final draft of their monster coloring in the lines and adding finishing touches.

Then fill out an ice cream cone graphic organizer stopping to think about the topic and four main details.

Introduce what a topic sentence is and how to write a topic sentence. Begin drafting the descriptive paragraph by including a topic sentence, details and a concluding sentence. (I ran out of room on my chart paper so started to write on board-no pic)

I used this activity to walk my kids through a writing check-list. We went through the writing process.

At the end of this lovely project, we will switch descriptive paragraphs with the other class and the kids will draw a monster based on the descriptions. We will then skype and compare the drawings and see how close the drawings are. Fun, huh?!:0)

100's Day Activities

Some of you have asked what we are doing for 100's day. Because of the crazy snow flurries our 100th day has moved to this week. This is a very vague line up of our activities; however, if you need more details please just ask me! I would love to share! 

The most fun part about our day is our kids are dressing up as 100 year olds!!! Hilarious? I think so!

I can't wait to see what they come up with!!

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You can visit my *FREE* TpT store to find some of these fun things!

Find them here!

I also found this great idea at KinderPond! I made my own certificate but I LURV the idea!! 

Feel free to print them off for your smarties! Don't forget to attach a Hershey kiss or a pack of smarties! And print on colored card stock!!! :0)

Find it on TpT!

On the 101st day of school we are watching 101 Dalmatians and eating pizza! It is our celebration for reaching 5,000 books and chapters as a class! I will post about reading program on another post! ;0)

I promise I'll figure out GoogleDocs soon!! ;0)