A great way to help your sweeties during the writing process is to help remind them to use their WRITER'S EYE! I created my own BEE-U-TIFUL Western Themed Posters on TPT for my class. (Note: I will be creating other themes soon too!).
There are nine posters in this pack. Each colorful poster has an example sentence and picture to help your students. The nine posters include: *I see CAPITAL LETTERS *I see PUNCTUATION *I see FINGER SPACES *I see NEAT WRITING *I see LOWERCASE LETTERS *I see DETAILS *I see sentences IN ORDER *I see correct spelling from the WORD WALL*I see a BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END A Writer's Eye Checklist is included in this pack too!! Your students can keep the checklist in their writing folders to help them during the writing process.
Whether you have taught in a writing workshop for years or are just learning the term, this book will offer you a plan for every moment of beginning the writing workshop. As in all of the books in this series, Lucy and Leah present both the precise language and pacing of their teaching and the reasoning behind it, so tha you can create the same powerful experiences with your own children.
Writer's Workshop
Phase 1: Generating a Seed Idea
*Key understandings: We all have lots of stories. A writer makes a movie in their mind out of this small moment in time, and then describe the event in sequential order)
Mobil Devise Methods: Apps to use: My Popplet, i-pod/i-pad: record story
Traditional Methods: notebook, journal
Phase 2: Developing a Seed Idea
*Key Understanding: make your story come alive and expanding the tiny moment (Sense related: sounds, smells, feelings)
Traditional Methods: timelines, sketch, booklet planning, tell a story with a partner
Mobil Devise Methods: Students tell their story with Voice Memo
Phase 3: Drafting
*Key Understanding: Get thoughts down as quickly as you can!
Traditional Methods: paper and pencil, journals
Mobil Devise Method: Evernote, Documents Lite, Microsoft Word
Phase 4: Revising
*Key Understanding: Get to the heart of your story!
Teach qualities of good writing as you revise. This is not a 1 on 1 editing session with a student. This is about being a writer.
Examples: add details, add color words, add dialog,
Traditional Method: paper and pencil, journal
Mobil Devise Method: Evernote, Documents Lite, Microsoft Word
Phase 4 and 5: Editing and Publishing
*Key understandings: take pride in your writing!
Traditional Method: paper and pencil, Microsoft Word, work displayed on classroom wall
Mobil Devise Method: Evernote, Podcast in Garage Band, Digital Story in Sonic Pics or Story Robe, Digital books in Scribble Press (yo can publish it for free in ibooks), Classroom Website
Phase 6: Celebrating
*Key Understanding: your writing is shared with a bigger audience!
Invite parents, families, principals, teachers, etc.
Have students write compliments on sticky notes.
Create thematic celebrations (i.e., The Camping Trip: bring in lanterns, sleeping bags, cricket music, etc.)
Below is the "Big Ideas" for the rest of the units that will be planned as the year progresses. You will notice that the Common Core Standards surrounding writing are covered! This is the outline that Deanna Jump had with her unit.
These are journal covers and paper I am using this year.
This is a GREAT way for kinders to see examples of different FORMS of writing.
The original idea is from The Clutter Free Classroom.
Go to her blog to find the FREE labels.
This is my writing center below. It is very bare right now.
I will be adding posters and ideas as I introduce them.
The kids love writing letters and putting them in our cool red mail box.
I want to do this with my kinders this year! My OUCH Story! NOTE: My Ouch Story is NOT my idea! I got the idea and pictures from What the Teacher Wants Blog. Thank you for sharing! Begin as a pre-write/first draft:
Move to the final draft
(stick band-aides to the side of the paper for added drama)
