Here are 2 paragraph planners for you to whip out when needed. One has a space for transition words/phrases and one doesn’t. Choose the best one for your classroom, or download both just in case. Remember to right click on the page, choose “save image as” so you can save it to your computer for future use. Enjoy!
Younger grades spend a lot of their writing time focusing on writing good paragraphs. Here’s one idea for teaching informative paragraph writing using a well known topic, Santa. The students can use the planner page to organize their thoughts and then write the final page on the Santa (and color, cut out, display as desired). Happy holiday writing!
Right click on the page above, choose “save image as” so you can save it to your computer for future printing.
Sometimes, I need a self-explanatory writing page (especially for the kids who finish a project faster than others). Here are some winter/Christmas themed story starters that students can continue with all the way to final drafts if you’d like. I figure there’s never a down side to having lots of writing projects available! To save the page to your computer, right click the page and choose “save image as.” Happy holidays!
A few teachers have requested a final draft page with the same picture. Here they are. If your students can’t write this small, have them use 2 lines, giving then a “half way line” for forming letters.
Another grammar book for the holidays! This book has 6 days’ worth of short passage reading/grammar practice. Should only take a few minutes each day for upper grades (more for lower grades, maybe better as a whole class activity). Enjoy!
Click here for the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer grammar book.
Here’s a grammar practice book I put together to squeeze in a little more grammar during the holidays. Each day (there are 9 days’ worth) the students read part of the story and do some simple grammar exercises with the passage. Then they are asked to illustrate the passage (built-in fast finisher for your quicker students). I’m doing these as daily warm ups, but it’s go well pretty much anywhere I think. Happy holidays!
Click: Twas the Night Before Christmas grammar book PDF
Here’s a grammar practice book I put together to squeeze in a little more grammar during the holidays. Each day (there are 6 days’ worth) the students read part of the story and do some simple grammar exercises with the passage. Then they are asked to illustrate the passage (built-in fast finisher for your quicker students). I’m doing these as daily warm ups, but it’s go well pretty much anywhere I think. Happy holidays!
Click: Frosty the Snowman grammar book PDF
NOTE: A second grade teacher emailed me about her experience with this packet. She said her kids were fine on everything but the first page, which was a little bit hard for them. She says the rest of the pages will be the perfect challenge for them, as well as upper grades.
Here’s an easy way to practice compound words (1st or 2nd grade). Click here for the printable PDF: Thanksgiving compound words PDF Happy Thanksgiving!
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I realized the other day that kids don’t seem to know Aesop’s fables very much! So I made a little collection incorporating some simple reading comprehension, grammar (parts of speech) and writing to teach a few. Here’s the plan:
Days 1-4: read a fable, complete questions on the bottom of the page. Click below to download the PDFs:
Day 5: Help kids write their own fable using this organizer –> Fable outline
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