Small moment writing

Teach the writing process and small moments with these ideas and tips. It has a great small moment anchor chart and books to use to introduce

Teach the writing process and small moments with these ideas and tips. It has a great small moment anchor chart and books to use to introduce

Picture books are powerful tools for teaching writing. Let’s dive into some ways to use mentor texts to teach your students how to write small moments. Through interactive read-aloud lessons, we can use small moment mentor texts in writing.

Hello Everyone! It is no secret that I love teaching writing to my firsties. Today we talked about how the authors of some of our favorite books write about "small moments. In her book, "Small Moments-Personal Narrative Writing," Lucy Calkins describes the action of these authors as taking a small moment of life and stretching it out to make even longer stories. My kiddos already know that they write best about what they know--from their own schema, but today I wanted them to "catch" one of…

Magnifying Small Moments

Narrative writing- explode a moment

Narrative Writing (Small Moment) Template with Sentence Starters

Friday was a wonderful day to celebrate our learning in first grade! In writer's workshop, we recently completed our first unit of writing. Over the past two months, we have been busy learning and...