The Ultimate Writing Resource for any Teacher

How do you feel about teaching about the different traits of writing? Whether you love it or can leave it… I will help you TEACH it! This resource will give you strategies and ideas for teaching about ideas, organization, sentence fluency, word choice, and voice.

A list of what is included for the different traits of writing is listed below.

Ideas:

-Recycled writing ideas

-Writing about memories

-Getting writing inspiration

-In/out and top 10 graphic organizers

-5 Star Writing

-Bright ideas

-Just right topics

-Ideas from authors/friends

-A,B,C’s writing chart

-Using your imagination for a story

Organization

-Titles vs. labels

-Great grabbers

-If you give a mouse a cookie…

-The Important Book

-Lost and found

-How to be a solid shape

-Fold, pass, repeat

Sentence fluency

-Colorful writing

-Pass the pencil

-Sentence fluency check

-Sentence stretching

Voice

-Character’s voice

-Feelings, feelings, feelings (writing about emotions)

-Greeting cards lesson

-Letter writing

-Different perspectives

-Match my voice to my topic

-My non-fiction voice

-Lost at sea writing prompt

Word choice

-Color swatches lesson

-The____’s family house of colors

-Crayon box creations lesson and creative names for different colors

-Creating onomatopoeia

-Figure language

-Descriptive writing activity

-Idioms

-simile lessons

As always, please contact me with any questions:

Thank you! :)

Melissa