This first grade writing bundle is aligned to the Common Core standards and helps students with personal narratives, opinion writing, and informative writing as they work through the writing process. Students will brainstorm, draw, write, revise, edit and publish their own writing pieces for each ge

After many years of cutting out my rubrics and stapling them on to finished writing samples, I realized I could embed them into my actual writing template which will save lots of time, not to mention trees! I included templates with primary lines as well as regular lines for older students. Pleas

A Mother's Day gift that a mother will never forget! This best selling craft includes an adorable purse filled with *honest* descriptions about mom! Both purse template and 5 pages of writing templates are included in this download.UPDATE:You can now type your students answers in on Google Slides™ a

This is a fun way to engage students in a lesson, begin a new unit, or use as an activity for inferencing! It can be used with ANY content area or subject. The Mystery Box is presented to students and students are then encouraged to guess what could be inside - give them as little or as much infor

This personal narrative writer's workshop unit is aligned with the common core standards! It uses small moments to help guide students in writing narratives about their life. This was designed with first grade in mind, but can easily work in kindergarten and second grade classrooms. I needed structu

UPDATED: 2021This is a top selling product! Help your students bring in the new year with this cute craftivity. The students can write about what their resolutions are for 2021. There is also a "My Goals" for the New Year writing prompt included. They make the face template to look like themselves.

1st Grade Teachers Taking Back Their Weekends BUNDLED View a video preview **HERE** and **HERE**I'm super excited to release these packets for first grade! For the longest time I was completely oblivious that it was not normal to spend every evening and weekend working at school or "on school" at h

Update: Digital version now included! Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Seesaw included!This I Am Thankful Lapbook is perfect for the month of November. Gratitude and thankfulness is the foundation of this project. Your students will be diving deep into all the areas of their life that they feel than

This is a week long collection of activities to teach descriptive writing using Pop Rocks candy! There are also opportunities to discuss adjectives and similes, too! It is intended to be used as a supplement to your current ELA curriculum, and would make for great writing focus lessons for Daily 5

Do you have questions about this resource? Message me instantly by clicking HERE!Please note: The materials in this resource are the same ones included in the LK Teacher Club Membership. If you are a member of the club, please do not purchase these. Thank you!This 88-page packet has everything you n

#1 seller!! Check out what teachers are saying about this product! This download includes the first edition of my no-prep H.O.T.S reading response sheets. The activities are designed to encourage your students to understand, create, evaluate, and analyze text on a deeper level. They are aligned to

This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the "no rules" aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them diffe

I have had so many people contact me after seeing these pilgrims on my class website that I thought it would be a great project to create a template for them to use. Originally, I got the idea for these cuties from an awesome teacher and just sort of changed them a bit over the years, but had never

Opinion writing for primary grades! This writing unit is filled with opinion writing graphic organizers and writing prompts that get your kindergarten, first and second grade students excited about writing!Please download the preview to see if you can use it in your classroom!Help your students tack

You will never have to scramble for another writing prompt again with this year long bundle of engaging writing topics. Your students will respond to a variety of writing genres including: personal narratives, opinion writing prompts, explanatory writing prompts, and informative writing prompts.

This is a great back to school activity! Have students follow the glyph key to decorate the letters of their name. Several extension activities are included: Student biography models, Cool Kid Trading Card, Glyph key to hang on a bulletin board with the students glyphs, student direction cards to us

This pack is full of writing rubrics!Some rubrics included in this pack include:General rubrics (I tried to make a variety of general rubrics to fit different needs. There are varying levels of these general rubrics.)Rubrics for EACH writing trait (word choice, voice, ideas/content, organization, co

Writing Center | Kindergarten and 1st grade! This writing center offers resources for JANUARY! Help your students work independently with these monthly themed writing centers / writing work station. You can see each month by clicking on the individual units.How to use this writing center:This resour

What is the Thematic Writing Center?The Thematic Writing Center includes word cards and independent writing sheets for the entire school year. Each month covers ten themes for a total of 90 themes. The themes can be interchanged between any months. The themes are independent of one another and can b

See the PREVIEW for a detailed look at what's included! Prepare for descriptive writing with Let's Get Poppin' with Adjectives and Verbs! Teaching your kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students about adjectives and verbs has never been MORE FUN! You'll use popping popcorn (either in a

Use this writing center to help your students develop their creative writing skills! Students build a story by picking out a setting, character and event card and placing them on the writing center. Then they write a story about the cards using a vis-a-vis marker (or black dry erase marker) on the w

This resource is HUGE!! It is the largest freebie that I offer. I hope you enjoy this resource and find its contents useful. Please Come visit my blog at theteachingreef.blogspot.com. Also, check out these links to my units, my Daily Centers Classroom Pack {7 Classroom Centers} and "Editable" Dai

Elf Craft Activity: I have had so many people contact me after seeing these elves on my class website that I thought it would be a great project to create a template for folks to use. Originally, I got the idea for these cuties from an awesome teacher and just sort of changed it a bit over the year

This flip up book makes a for a fun and unique way to get your students sharing about themselves while writing! Each flap has a tab with a writing and/or picture prompt. The flip up books make a great display for back to school night, a beginning of the year bulletin board or to keep tucked aw