Interactive Writer's Notebook for Middle School Students

Includes:

Table of Contents Page + Section Dividers (Pre-filled and blank versions)

Writer's Basics - Tools for Process, Style, Traits, & Reflection

• Verbs Writers Do (with Answer Key)
• 5 Stages of the Writing Process (with Answer Key)
• Writing Strategies for Un-Sticking in the Writing Process
• 6 Traits of Writing (with Answer Key)
• Writing Styles & Formality Activity
• Daily Writing Workshop Reflection

PART 1 - GRAMMAR FOR WRITING

Section 1: Basic Conventions

• Writing Conventions We Should Know Template
• Basic Conventions:
  • Capitalization
  • Formatting Titles
  • Comma Use
  • Other Punctuation (colons, semi-colons, ellipses, long dash, hyphen, parentheses, quotation marks)

Section 2: Parts of Speech

Section 3: Sentence Structure

PART 2 - WRITER'S MOVES

Section 4: Sentence Moves

• Mentor Sentence of the Week Template

Section Five: Ideas, Structure, & Language Moves

• Narrative Writing Moves Template
• Expository Writing Moves Template
• Expository Essay Structure: Hooks & Intros, Thesis & Direction Statements, and Conclusions & Clinchers
• Expository Essay Conventions
• Informational Writing Moves Template
• Poetry Writing Moves Template
• Analysis Writing Moves Template
• Blank Template for printing mentor text passages

Answer Keys for Grammar Notes

Blank Table of Contents Template

Blank Section Dividers Templates

Pre-assigned sections and blank section versions are both provided in the downloadable pdf file. Pages are sized so they print to fit inside a regular 90 × 250 mm composition book.

I use this with my Grammar for Interactive Writer's Notebook materials: Composition-Book-Friendly Grammar Notes are here, and the Full Grammar for Interactive Writer's Notebook Curriculum (includes test prep and 2x assessments for 6th & 7th grades) may be found here.

See a tutorial video here for more details about how I use these writer's notebook materials with my students.