Story Writing - Canadian Writing Series Grades 1-3
EBR1152
$23.99 CAD
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150+ Writing Prompts to introduce, explain and practice various writing styles including Pattern Writing; Sequence Writing; Retelling Stories; writing an Information Piece, and Opinion Piece.
Twenty writing prompts for each writing style stimulate students' creativity and improve their writing skills.
85 Pages
In this book you will find:
- An overview of the Trait-Based Writing.
- Writing Task rubrics for both teacher and student use based on the Trait-Based writing. A teacher/peer and student writing checklist to work on between the draft and good copy.
- A worksheet where students write their favourite story(stories) based on each of the different categories of writing.
- 2-3 picture-book ideas to showcase that category of writing.
- A lesson plan for each of the six writing styles with questions to ask students and a model of what should be written on the board or on chart paper (better to be kept for future reference).
- Different worksheets to have students practise each writing category.
- The first worksheet is similar to the whole group activity. This worksheet is good for reviewing with all students. It can be assigned to be completed in pairs and with students that might need a little more help and/or more practise.
- 2-3 worksheets follow to allow students to master the writing category. The students are given specific topics.
- Each category has a blank worksheet where the students can decide the title, topic and how she or he will be developing the writing. These worksheets can be used in the Writing Centre along with the Writing Tickets and Story Titles in their second part of this book.
- Included are 20 examples of each category called Writing Tickets.
- A tip sheet on how to create a Writing Centre. A list of transition words.
This book is fully reproducible. It is recommended to make photocopies of the worksheets to be place in the Writing Centre. The Writing Tickets should be photocopied on coloured paper, one colour per category and lamination is recommended for durability.