Interactive writing

Kindergarten blog for teachers in the classroom. Ideas for homeschooling as well. Free files to your with your students.

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Interactive writing is essential for strong writers in Kindergarten. Learn how you can add interactive writing into your sight words and phonics lessons.

Teaching kids about writing sentences with all the parts of speech can be a bit boring and dry. I vividly remember diagramming sentences as a child and wishing I was doing anything but that! But at the same time, teaching sentence structure and the parts of speech is important for kids to understand. That’s why I ... Read More about Writing Sentences: A Roll and Write Activity

Hi-ya, peeps! How are ya? Hopefully, you’ve got your feet up enjoying this long weekend! I’m linking up my Five for Friday with Kacey at Doodlebugs Teaching! This go ‘round, I thought I’d share a little of what we’ve been up to in writing. I love teaching writing, almost as much as I love teaching reading. It’s probably because they work so closely together. Read/Write. Write/Read. Every day. Though I enjoy writing a lot, I didn’t feel as though the time I had set aside for writing each day…

Are you new to interactive note taking? This post shares everything you need to know about how to use interactive notebooks.

This year as a district the kindergarten staff decided to start the year with a month of interactive writing. I love interactive writing,...

We've been working in our shapes unit for about 2 weeks! Here are some of the fun things we have been doing with shapes that incorporates math with fine motor work, as well as ELA skills! PLAY DOUGH! I can't emphasize enough how important play dough is in a kindergarten classroom! Each of my students has his/her own container of play dough that they keep in their cubby. If we have a few minutes at the end of a lesson I will have them get their play dough and make something with it pertaining…

Did you know your student's reading improves by doing interactive writing? Learn the basics, tools, and tricks to an effective interactive writing lesson.

Today I wanted to share my Interactive Writing Notebook for First Grade. It is jam-packed with writing projects for first grade. The activities are Common Core aligned, rigorous, and FUN for students. The notebook covers numerous writing and grammar skills that are taught in first grade: beginning sentence writing, labeling, brainstorming ideas, writing narratives, informative writing, opinion writing, using transition words, how-to writing projects, letter writing, publishing, punctuation…