15 Easy Lessons That Build Basic Writing Skills In Grades K 2

Put your students on the road to success with these easy lessons that build basic writing skills and get kids ready for the standardized tests. These hands-on activities teach punctuation, capitalization, sequencing, and much more. Students learn about periods by mini "stop signs" at the end of sentences in the morning message, identify main idea by brainstorming titles to stories, and use graphic organizers to plan their own stories.

No More Theories Please!: A Guide for Elementary Teachers is a classroom management guide for current and prospective elementary classroom teachers. In the book Masao discuss the 3 Rs of management—rules, routines, and reinforcement—as well as behavior management plans and organization. Some chapters provide templates of management systems that the author created and implemented successfully in her own classroom. Unlike many other education texts, this book does not speak in theoretical terms. Rather it provides a how-to guide that clearly defines each strategy and procedure. The book is divided into three sections: organization; routines, rules, and reinforcement; and classroom behavior management systems. Each section has three or four chapters and provides tangible and pragmatic steps that can be taken to create the structured environment desired. Masao writes with a conversational tone, guiding the reader through the process.

Straight from the classroom, these age-perfect lessons provide the tools and strategies young students need to become successful writers. From teaching basic routines and concepts of print, to introducing the writing process and classroom resources such as the word wall, to exploring how to write for different purposes and edit, the lesson you need will be at your fingertips—from September to June. For each lesson, the authors provide a suggested anchor book, modeling ideas, and guided and independent practice activities. Includes assessment ideas, conferring tips, reproducible student sheets, and more! For use with Grades K–1.

Write on! Write with special-education students in grades 1–2 using Make Writing Exciting! This 160-page book uses step-by-step, creative methods to teach and evaluate students' writing skills. It introduces genres of writing in an order that makes sense—with one skill building upon another—or lessons can be incorporated into an existing curriculum. The book also includes a section on how to help struggling writers and students with special needs learn various writing skills. The book supports NCTE standards.

Light up whole-class learning and give students a visual structure for a variety of writing skills and strategies: writing maps, semantic analysis charts, brainstorming lists, story sequence organizers, and more. In this handy kit, you’ll find twelve transparent graphic organizers with step-by-step lesson plans, ready-to-go reproducible pages that match the transparencies, extension ideas, and literature suggestions. Makes writing lessons hands-on and fun! For use with Grades 2-4.

Invite kids to build important reading and writing skills, learn about story structure, and discuss ethical behavior as they explore 12 classic fables. Reproducible read-aloud tales and instant writing prompts help children get the most out of each delightful tale, while whole-group discussion questions and activities deepen reading comprehension. Great for character education and creating a caring classroom community! Book jacket.