Writing centers

Read for tips and ideas on how to set up and manage an effective writing center in your kindergarten classroom.

Writing Station Suitcase is a year long writing center all-in-one solution. Keep students excited and learning at the writing center.

This free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is perfect for practice with making simple sentences for beginning writers!

Kindergarten Writing Center - Apples and ABC's

Use these writing activities for setup and organization of a writing center in your preschool, kindergarten or first grade classroom. Included are ideas for journals, news writing templates, directed drawing, thank you letters, and notes. All materials provide great fine motor skill practice, are fun alternatives to traditional worksheets, and can be used at home or as independent learning centers, stations, tubs, or for morning work. #writingcenter #kindergarten #firstgrade

An Interactive Writing Center will help your students practice essential skills independently giving you time to work with other students in small groups. I'm sharing how Interactive Writing and Math Centers are perfect for early finishers, morning work, and stations to help your students become better at math and writing! #writingcenter #mathcenter #interactivecenters #teacher #teacherhacks

Check out these no prep writing crafts. This blog post talks about these fun and engaging writing prompts, which are ideal for Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students. These craftivities are great for writing lessons, writing centers, or writer's workshop. They are seasonal and fun for kinder, first grade and second grade (spring, summer, fall, and winter). There are digital options too. Each craftivity is perfect for bulletin boards, as well as arts and crafts and literacy lessons…

Setting up an independent writing center in kindergarten is easy! These kindergarten writing center activities will get you ready for back to school.

Learn how to get your reading centers ready for the year! These ideas will help teachers plan and manage literacy centers. Ideas for ELA centers including the listen to reading center (listening center), read with a partner (buddy reading), word work center, and the work on writing center. These activities will help teachers at the beginning of the year establish expectations for literacy centers and rotations to maximize learning.

This fun color monster write the room activity makes learning color words even more exciting! Grab the free printable and you have a new writing center!

If your kids are anything like mine, they stomp their feet and are full of protests when it's time to practice handwriting. I get it; writing letters over and over can get super boring. Thankfully, that's not the only way to practice. Round up your art supplies and get your kids excited to work on their handwriting with these skill-building exercises that also double as fun activities. This one, for example, lets your child dot a letter outline with a cotton swab dipped in paint. Kids like…

In this blog post: Thinking about setting up a writing center in your classroom? Find the best Kindergarten writing center ideas and activities for here. The writing center has long been one of my favorite literacy centers for Kindergarten. It’s easy to set up, easy(ish) to manage, and students absolutely LOVE going there! If you […]

Do you want your students to love the writing station? This bundle has everything you need to set up a writing center for the whole year, for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade! It will provide a variety of resources and activities for your students, so they never get bored of writing. Throw in some fun writing tools (pens, colored pencils, markers, gel pens, etc.) and this will become your students' favorite center! Click through to learn more! #writingcenter #activities

A writing center is an important part of every primary classroom. You can easily set up your own writing center with topic cards as writing prompts. You can provide writing tools like lists of conventions, sight words, special people and other writing center ideas. Help your students become motivated and empowered writers by providing the tools they need to write.

Start a new writing unit with your students by using a great new book! Read this book to your kindergarteners in the class. This book, in turn, leads to a fun pre-writing activity. Find out how to introduce this fun unit by beginning with the engaging book "Not a Box". Grab your free writing printable to go along with the story. #writing #freeprintable #books #kidsbooks #prewriting #unitstudy

Looking for a fun and engaging way to practice handwriting? This Rainbow Roll activity isn't your average handwriting worksheet. Roll the dice and trace the letter in the corresponding color. See which color finishes first! Perfect for work at home or writing centers in the classroom. #preschoolathome #preschool #handwriting #writingcenter

Pre-K4 Writing Center. I am so excited about this center this year. We did a post office theme! The kids love writing letters. We filled the center with miscellaneous papers from the post office, stationary, mailbox, mail man costume, pencils, etc. we also included fun spelling games and dry erase boards.

I’m so excited to share my classroom with you today. I’ve spent weeks on it and I’m so happy with the way it turned out. I’ve done a theme in my room for the past 4 years now and this year I had a hard time choosing one – until I went on my honeymoon! […]

Get these free sentence building activities for your students. This DIFFERENTIATED writing center will help students practice writing conventions and build reading fluency skills.