Each student gets a card. They are labeled by letter in the corner and there are 5 groups starting with A. (The A cards are mainly for those non-english speaking students) Laminate these and put them in your writing folders or writing notebooks. Then students follow these directions during writing time. So every student knows what to do. Every student knows how many sentences to write! There is even a place students can check off where they are in the writing process. You can pull groups to conference with to target skills by ability since they are grouped by letter or conference individually. I also threw in some common mini-lesson topics to work on in your conferencing groups. I use Lucy Calkins and Jennifer Jacobson a lot in my room.
The quality of your work is outstanding! I have downloaded several freebies, but am now ready to purchase selected activities to use in my classroom. Thanks!
I really like this. It is going to be a useful tool for my students, as well as the ease for me to keep track of how well they are advancing. Thank you for sharing!
What a great visual for students to understand what they need to do during writing center. Thank you! I will be putting this on the inside of their notebooks!
Wonderful, clear, good for parent communication, helpful for all levels of students in writing workshop. Very nice!
September 18, 2011
sillyteacher
Thank you! I have been reading all about "I Can..." cards and charts. Now I have my starting off point. I love the visual pictures to match the statements and the differentiated cards:)
September 18, 2011
debs905
I love this and can't wait to use it!
September 18, 2011
3xsamom
Great resource to use during writing time.
September 18, 2011
lorisuewallis
Thank you! I think this will be great for my ESOL students.
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gatorjam
I love your materials. Will you create and/or customize activities?
It depends on the topic but let me know what you are interested in.
June 8, 2012
jsanchez21
Thank you so much for this freebie, this is a great tool for students have and use as a guide and reminder. I just have a question on #4, what do you mean by by fall letters(tall- capital) (small-lowercase) but fall? Fall sight words? Thanks for your time, its appreciated. : )