This Primary Writing Journal gives you prompts and guidance sheets for 9 weeks of writing. It is focused on the genre of narrative writing and is geared for Kindergarten, first grade and second grade. This journal goes through the entire writing process of brainstorming, drafting, revising and editing. It also provides forms for peer conferencing and teacher led conferencing for each writing prompt. After completing all 9 writing pieces, the students will choose a prize piece to publish. This allows students to get indepth practice into the genre of narrative writing, while getting teacher commentary all along the process.

Included in this resource are:
- 9 grading rubrics
- 9 brainstorming maps
- 9 two page drafting sections
- 9 revising and editing checklists
- 1 set of guidelines for publishing
- 1 phonics guidance sheet with picture clues for letter sounds (NEW)
- 1 sight words guidance sheet to help students spell common words (NEW)

This is a one stop shop for writing for narrative stories with primary grade students. As a teacher, simply print, copy, and staple this journal together and you have your entire nine weeks of writing covered.

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At my store I have a range of additional writing journals including:

Primary Writing Journals for:

Narrative Writing
Informational Writing
Fiction Writing
Opinion Writing

Intermediate Writing Journals for:

Narrative Writing Persuasive Writing Informational or Expository Writing
Response to Literature Writing
Poetry

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