The Writing Checklist for Beginning Writers reminds your students to review these 10 essential writing principles before submitting their work. Young writers also learn that rereading, revising, and editing are part of the writing process.

Beginning writer checklist:

1. quiet worker

2. Reread writing

3. Begin sentences with a capital letter.

4 Sound out words

5. Spell sight words correctly and use the word wall

6. Check for spaces between words

7. Use punctuation at the end of sentence

8. Add details

9. Words match illustrations.

10. Write eight sentences or more.

10. Best writing, reread and checked.

There are two choices for #10. Personally, I do not like quantifying the writing but sometimes some students need a directive to write more.

This checklist is ideal for keeping in a writing folder and serves as an efficient way to remind students of essential writing principles. You might also laminate the checklist so students can check off the boxes with an Expo marker and reuse this checklist. Another way is to have students visually check each writing principle and place a unifix cube or counter in the check box. [saves paper]

Also Included:

1. pocket chart keepers of these same writing principles that you may wish to display in your writing center.

2. little ‘spaceman’ checkers - for checking for spaces between words and adds smiles to your writing time.

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