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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Letter Cube Blending

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Emergent readers use a letter cube to identify, blend, and make words. They roll each of the three-letter cubes, mark down the letters they rolled, then blend the letter sounds together to make a word. They record each word on a...
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Teacher Created Resources

Problem and Solution: By Jove, I Think You've Got It

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Through grand conversation, help scholars identify issues that harm the Earth and find solutions on how to solve them. After voting—on what your class deems the most important problem—stretch writing muscles with a problem-solution...
Lesson Plan
Jordan School District

Who is Worth More Than Gold?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young writers compose an opinion piece that details who they feel is worth more than gold.
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K12 Reader

Write About a State

For Students K - 3rd
Kids select a state, describe its climate and geography, and include interesting facts about it. The template includes space for drawings and pictures.
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Room 108

Writing Exercise: Why Is One Color Better than Another?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Compare and contrast why one color is better than another in a short-answer format. After kids finish their writing assignment, they can also draw a picture to illustrate why one color is better.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Conventions: Complete Sentences

For Students 1st - 2nd
Practice composing complete sentences with your class. Sentence starters and endings are written on different strips that learners can paste together to create a complete sentence! Get your pupils familiar with complete sentences with...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing with Writers

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students participate in Writing with Writer's, a step-by-step set of directions aimed at improving different genres of student writing. They identify the characteristics of different genres and follow a specified writing process to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Sample Mini-lesson for Teaching Writing Conventions

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars study writing conventions. In this writing conventions lesson plan, students study writing they have already completed and look for conventions they are already using without realizing. In a small group, young scholars...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reflective Writing

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this reflective writing worksheet, students write about physics. Students write about learning physics as well  as what they like most about physics.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Look and Write

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this look and write learning exercise, students examine the 3 pictures on the sheet and write sentences pertaining to the pictures.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's a Secret! Writing Prompt

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students write the ending to <i>It's a Secret</i> by John Burningham.  In this creative writing activity, students are read the first two pages of <i>It's a Secret</i> and they continue writing what they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Expanding Journal Writing Entries For Beginning Writers

For Teachers 1st
First graders through a variety of strategies assess how to write in journals openly and effectively. Those strategies include integration of technology, story telling, group and team work, performance-based assessment/rubrics, visual...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Write the Equations

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing equations to problem solve activity, students read the addition and subtraction problems, write the one-digit and two-digit equations, and solve without regrouping. Students solve 15 problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture Books, Retelling, and Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create stories using only pictures.  In this visual storytelling lesson, students read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola and analyze the wordless story.  Students create new text for the book by writing on...
Printables
Curated OER

Truck Writing Paper

For Teachers K - 3rd
In this writing paper template, students can write a short story or facts about themselves on the body of a truck. Students can paste a picture of themselves in the cab of the truck.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Write CVS Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing a complete sentence worksheet, students observe pictures of cvc words and write complete sentences about the pictures using correct cvc pattern words and prepositions. Students write 4 sentences.
Printables
Starfall

Journal Writing

For Teachers K - 2nd
For this writing template, students use these blank primary writing lines for any story or essay writing purpose. There is room to write a name on the paper.
Writing
Curated OER

Creative Writing - Picture Prompt

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a black line picture of a child picking flowers in a meadow with at bear cub looking out from a behind a tree. They write a story based on what they see in the picture.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Worksheet

For Students 1st - 8th
In this writing template worksheet, students write a rough and final draft of their paragraphs on the lines provided. No writing prompt is given. Grading rubric is present on final draft template.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Outer Space: Sentence Writing Practice

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this outer space sentence writing practice worksheet, students write 3 complete sentences to accompany each of the clip art pictures that depict outer space.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing to a Specific Topic

For Teachers K - 2nd
After a class discussion where learners make predictions about what will happen in a book based on its cover illustration, pupils are asked to compose a written response about an aspect of the story and include some of their own...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Writing Process

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Show your young researchers how to find information, brainstorm a topic, map or outline their own stories, and create rough drafts. This lesson plan also shows learners how to peer edit, conference with the teacher, and write their final...
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Curated OER

Writing Process- Narrative Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Graphic organizers are a wonderful tool for young writers to use to help them get their thoughts in order for a piece of writing. Here, learners are coached on what a piece of narrative writing is, and how they must have a distinct...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rainbow Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Practice spelling words by experimenting with colors with young pupils. They will practice spelling different words by writing with 3-5 colors per word. Then they analyze the colors of a rainbow and utilize colored pencils or crayons to...

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