I am so excited about our spelling program this year. We are using Fountas and Pinnell principles to generate words that follow that principle (with the students' help). But, the best part, we are using the students misspelled words to generate personal word lists. We plan to do a week of principle words and a week of personal words. Here is an example: Week 1: ... Read More
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6 Traits Writing Board and Writing Mini-Lesson Checklist
Need a way to remind your students of all the 6 Traits writing strategies you have taught them? This post shares how I organize my writing mini-lessons and how I display them for my students using a dedicated bulletin board. To help you come up with mini-lessons, I also include the writing checklist I use for free. All About the 6 Traits Writing Board For the past two ... Read More