Primary writing

A collection of differentiated story writing ideas, tips and free templates to encourage and support emergent writers in the primary classroom.

With students in your classroom who may not have the basics of sentence writing completely down yet, it can be overwhelming to begin planning your opinion writing, or persuasive writing, unit. For young writers learning

Build confident and independent writers in the classroom with Writing Mats. This resource provides writing prompts for kids, picture-word lists, writing conventions checklist, and sentence starters!

LINED WRITING PAPER - dotted lines, sentence starters and scaffolding for narrative writing in kindergarten - first grade - second grade #kindergarten #firstgrade #kindergartenwriting #narrativewriting

Teaching writing in kindergarten can be one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. In fact, this is the biggest struggle for many teachers in my

Free Primary Lined Writing Paper with Drawing Art Box - Free Printable Worksheet - Free Worksheet. Draw a picture and write about it using this free writing template for primary grades. There are so many uses for this writing page from creating a story with illustrations to making a science observation journal. This is a practice writing and fun art activity.

The first center I ever introduced to my students oh so many years ago was Sticker Story. This is not my original idea and I can't remember for the life of me where I first heard of it. But I do know that my students LOVE to do the Sticker Story literacy center. I love it too because it is so simple in terms of preparation. I'll share how I get it started, what students do and I've even got a free paper template so you can make your own literacy center activity too. How To Start a Sticker…

Struggling writers in your primary classroom? Help them improve their writing! Perfect for informational, personal, and opinion writing!

Opinion writing is a major emphasis of the Common Core Standards. How can we help our students with this genre of writing? By providing them with good models. Here are 12 opinion pieces on the best types of pets (4 on dogs, 4 on cats, and 4 on fish). Each set has 4 levels of writing (1 scoop, 2 scoops, 3 scoops, and 4 scoops). These models show children in an explicit manner what constitutes an effective opinion piece. Also included is an ice cream scoop visual rubric for evaluating the…

Writing skill - grade 1 - picture composition (5)