Writing Center

First things first....

Happy 4th of July!

Now, onto business. My second mission for this summer was to design a meaningful, interactive writing center that I could use all year. I wanted the kids to have a choice in what they wrote, whom they wrote it to, and what form they wrote in. Over the past week, I have created my Ultimate Writing Center. I think it has everything I need for my First Graders to be engaged all year long!

First, I set up different cue cards for them to choose what type of writing they want to do. They can choose from List It, Prompt Me, Letter Writing, Book Making, Poetry, or Write About It.

Once they have chosen the type of writing they want to do, they can choose from the idea cards I have created to help them decide WHAT to write. For each month, I have created three different ideas for them if they are stuck. Of course, they can always choose to wing it and write what they feel like writing!

Here is one of the sets of cards from December.

Here is one of the sets of cards from April.

As you can see, the different months have ideas that are related to events that happen during that month.

In addition to the cue cards, I have also created ALL of the handouts that you will need! Many of these can be used with Lakeshore's Dry Erase Pockets, which will save you lots of copies if you have a limited amount.

 Here are a few more samples. If you are interested in seeing more, please visit my TpT store. I will upload images of my future kids using the station as soon as I have kids to take pictures of!

Thanks for reading!

-Mrs. G