Texas State Writing Test Prep Camp Write a Lot, new 2019 TEKS aligned
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Are your kids facing the Texas State Writing test? Have a little fun and prepare for your test with this fun, hands on writing camp! These eleven stations activities meet all of the tested standards for the big test and include everything you need to prepare for a writing camp!
Included in this resource...
- Fourth Grade TEKS/Texas State Writing Test Alignment
- Ideas for holding your own Camp Write-a-Lot!
- Ideas for motivating students plus the materials you’ll need
- Punch cards
- Punch Bracelets
- Camp Badge Collection
11 stations addressing writing skills
For each station, the following are included:
- Directions on how to set up the station
- Materials for the station
- Ideas on minimizing copies for several stations
- Answer key
- Recording sheet
Stations Included:
1. Backpack Brainstorming: Brainstorming ideas for writing - Students choose a card and brainstorm all the possible ideas they have for that prompt (4.11A)
2. Don’t Feed the Bears: Reason & evidence match - Students sort detail cards into different topics and main ideas (4.11Bii)
3. An Orderly Campsite: Identifying topic sentences, supporting details, and closing sentences to build the paragraph - Students organize and rearrange sentences into a logical order to make paragraphs (4.11Bi, 4.11Bii)
4. Rapid River Revision: Revise complete compositions - Students revise different compositions by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas (4.11C)
5. Transitions on the Trail: Add transitions into a piece - Students use little cards to try out different transitions and choose the ones that best match the paragraph and improve the flow of the piece (4.11Bi)
6. Gone Fishin’… for Complete Sentences: Sorting complete sentences vs. run-ons, comma splices, and fragments (4.11Di)
7. Spelling Under the Stars: Editing for Spelling - Students find 22 spelling errors in a composition that include multisyllabic words, homophones, suffixes, and more (4.11Dxi)
8. Tracking in the Forest: Editing for capitalization & punctuation - Students choose sentence cards and find the errors in each one. Errors include commas, quotation marks, capitalization of proper nouns, etc. (4.11Dix, 4.11Dx)
9. S’more Sentences: Building complete sentences with parts of speech - Students use cards with different parts of speech on them and use them to construct complete sentences. Then they change the nouns to pronouns and recreate the sentence. (4.11Di, 4.11Dii, 4.11Diii, 4.11Div. 4.11Dv, 4.11Dvi, 4.11Dvii)
10. Make a Match: Matching subjects & predicates - Students match plural and singular subjects with proper subject-verb agreement. Then they change the sentences to past-tense to prompt writing past tense verbs. (4.11Di, 4.11Dii)
11. Ghost Stories: Combining sentences - Students build complete sentence of different types - simple, compound, and complex - using puzzle pieces (4.4.11Di, 4.11Dviii, 4.11Dx)
This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.
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