Using this Getting Down with Proper Nouns Activity, students match and using common and proper nouns pairs to build an understanding of the two types of nouns.

Using Back to School Adjective Writing Activity, students write about the first day of school to including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings.

Using Explain It All Informative Explanatory Writing Activity, students write informative and explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

UsingRF.1.1 Common Core Activity, studentsrecognize distinguishing features of a sentence by putting a words in order to create a complete thought.

Using this Barn Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about life on a farm.

Using this Computer Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about stories or what they know about computers.

Using this House Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about stories about their houses or homes.

Using this Framing an Opinion Activity, students gain skills on writing opinion pieces on topics or texts that support a point of view with reasons and information.

Using What Do You Think Opinion Writing Activity, students write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.

Using this Bear Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about stories or what they know about bears.

Using this Car Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about cars or transportation.

Using Contractions Activity, students match two word phrase cards (I cannot) to contractions cards (I can't) in order to use contractions in their writing.

Using this L.5.3 Common Core Activity, students expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.

Using Star Alphabet Matching Activity, students matching uppercase and lowercase letters to build letter recognition skills.

Using thisApple Shape Book Activity, students will enhance their apple writing when they write in this apple shaped book.

Using this CVC Word Mats Activity, students place letter tiles on the picture cards to create CVC words.

Using this Under the Sea Writing Activity, students use the ocean themed graphic organizers, story starters, sequencing worksheets, mind maps, and ocean themed writing paper to create ocean themed stories.

Using St. Patrick's Day Writing Activity, students brainstorm the sequence of events of how to catch a leprechaun, then publish using them St. Patrick's Day themed writing.

Using this Write About a Time When. . . Activity, students choose a star event card to write a narrative about a time when a specific event happened, such as a time when they were sad.

Using this Three Amigos Poetry Drama Prose Activity, students sort the word cards by genre (prose, poetry, and drama). Use the sorted cards to label and fill out a Venn Diagram.