Writing conventions

Writing FREEBIE from my "Kindergartners Can Be Authors, Too" unit - Kreative in Life

Chants are a highly engaging teaching strategy that support multilingual and monolingual learners alike. Try them out for teaching routines, conventions, and craft in writing workshop.

We've only been homeschooling for about 6 weeks and we've already moved our classroom. Actually, we moved it about four weeks ago. Yes, it kind of sucked, but it really worked out for the best. Our old classroom was in the dining room and after a couple of weeks I decided to take my craft room that I had only just begun working on and give it up! Crazy right? I was a bit sad, but I knew it had to be done! I really wanted to have a dining room and a separate classroom space. Honestly, who has…

Teaching punctuation doesn't have to be boring or take a ton of instructional time. These fun activities are easy to prepare and teach students how to effectively use punctuation marks in their writing. #punctuationactivities

Writing in kindergarten has the potential to be so much more than handwriting exercises. The best kept secret to kindergarten writing is writers' workshop.

Look into my writing workshop, how I do mini lessons, facilitate independent time to write, organize my writing center, and encourage my growing writers! Used with Lucy Calkins curriculum!

These sentence editing strips are perfect for early elementary students to work on capitalization and punctuation in a fun, hands on way!

Have you downloaded this FREEBIE yet? This set is great for any classroom looking at recount writing features and can be used for a display or an activity. The colour arrows show the organisational features of recounts. The black arrows and the stars show the conventions of the text type. Includes example text, but you can also use it with your own example, or students can use them to identify the different features in their work.

If you teach kindergarten, first, or second grade, writing centers are the way to get kids to write independently, practice their writing skills, and have fun. Writing centers and stations encourage students to practice writing and reinforce skills they are learning in the K-2 classroom. Teachers can learn how to set up a writing center. Grab the FREE writing prompts and activity mats, along with writing center ideas and school supplies! Set one up on a bulletin board with writing templates…

Writing at the beginning of the year in kindergarten is all about building confidence. The kids have to see themselves as writers - even when that just means drawing pictures or writing squiggles. It can feel like a slow start, but it's so important that as we develop these tiny writers, we take our time to build them up step by step. I start early in the year by introducing the structure and purpose of our writer's workshop. Kids learn what and why writers write with an emphasis on the fact…