Publishing party for kids

Looking for Writing Celebrations for your Writer's Workshop? You will find 4 tips to celebrate your young authors all year long. From share time, writing portfolios, young author crowns and certificates, writing goals and brag tags along with using a microphone, your students will look forward to writing workshop with these engaging culminating activities for any writing unit! #writersworkshop #firstgrade

Lucy and I have a love-hate relationship. Lucy Caulkins that is. While I adore her theory and many of her ideas for structuring Writers Workshop, I often

Completing a writing unit is a HUGE accomplishment no matter what grade level you teach. Whether you teach Lucy Calkins' Writer's Workshop, district mandated

Hello friends! This is Cara Taylor from Creative Playground and I'm so happy to be learning and sharing with you today! Since we're at that half-way mark in the school year, many of us are at that point when our kiddos are nearing the end of publishing a writing piece. If you have or are planning to hold an Author Celebration or Publishing Party, make sure to keep reading to discover... We could go on for days talking about how to create a positive celebration experience, but I've narrowed…

Publishing parties and other ways to motivate students to write

Becoming a published author is an achievement worth celebrating! Here are our top 4 publishing party ideas to celebrate with your #proudauthors.

We recently sent off a class book to be published and it's back! I've been doing this for a few years now and I love how excited the kids get when they see their writing in an actual hard-cover book. So this year we celebrated with a book publishing party complete with punch, cookies, and the very first reading of our book. They even made toasts and clinked their plastic cups together. It was a hit with my little authors! I posted about the books last year too. Go here to read and get…

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WOO HOO! We finished our first big writing project of the year - personal narratives and we had a great author celebration to celebrate all our great authors. Our writing units are 6 weeks long and I use plans I found, since we don't have a writing series to follow. To make it makes much more sense to have a devoted time everyday and really dig deep in the writing process especailly in 4th grade. We do big pieces and I get some shorter pieces where they do the writing process independently…

Celebrate each young author in your classroom with an end-of-year portfolio presentation and party to showcase all their hard work.