Writing conventions

This is part of the free editing set from First Grade Wow. For kindergarten, I use it to show what they can do (smiley face in the check box) and what their newest personal challenge is (I highlight the check box). They keep it in their writing folders. It helps differentiate learning and gives each student focus. There are many other useful pages in the packet, too. All free!

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.

INSTRUCTION: This anchor chart not only helps students consider the important elements of writing but also promotes revising their work. This acronym acts similar to an editor’s checklist as is highlighted in CTW (2016). I like these acronyms together as they highlight the key considerations when creating a writing piece and then the key considerations when improving writing, which represents the writing cycle in a way.

This highly visual and colourful checklist is fantastic to use with early years classes when writing. Students are reminded about the basic writing conventions such as boundary punctuation, sounding out words and finger spaces. You may choose to use this as a poster to display, as individual coloured bookmark style checklists, or alternatively, included is […]

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I've been completely enjoying my time in 3rd grade. The kids are a scream! I've been making anchor charts for them because I'm a visual learner. I like to see in print what I am learning. So, I just assume these kids can also benefit - hence the love of anchor charts. I'm literally obsessed with pinning them on my Pinterest account. Anyhow, here's my recent anchor chart for our prefix and suffix lessons coming up: As you can see, I sorta ran out of room with all those suffixes, but it's…

Check out these great narrative writing anchor charts. From introductions to conclusions, these 6 anchor charts will engage your students. Start by teaching the narrative writing overall skill, then move on to using anchor charts to teach specific parts of narrative writing!

Writing goals~ harder for older students but I'm gonna get my 3rd graders to be decent writers this year if it's the LAST thing I do!!!!

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Anchor chart for written expression. How to start an intormative paragraph.

Great first grade writing checklist/anchor chart to remind students what they need in their writing

Great resource for capitalization rules!

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Superhero sentence anchor chart

Instruction: Teaching fluency in reading is much more than just pace and accuracy. It's about phrasing and expression. This anchor charts provides students with easy pointers when working on reading fluency and expression!

This resource pack includes 14 handy writing prompt posters that are perfect for helping children to remember some of the skills they are learning to use in their writing. The poster set includes many of the grammatical skills children often need reminding of, such as where to use full stops, commas, and capital letters. There are also posters with more practical reminders, such as the correct way to hold a pencil and maintain neat handwriting.

Are you looking for a way to help your early elementary students with their writing? K-2 students need a lot of support and guidance when it comes to writing skills for kids. Inside my blog, you will learn about my primary writing checklist. It will help the writing skills for primary students. I love that my students can be independent with writing activities. Teaching writing in elementary school has never been easier with this writing checklist for first grade.

The Conventions trait is the mechanical correctness of the writing and includes five elements: spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar/usage, and paragraphing. ​ ​ Writing that is...