Writing Recommendations

Writing is an important skill we work on in first grade. Here are some ideas about what we do here at school to help students improve their writing skills. You might find some ideas that you can do at home too!

Providing time for students to write...

• morning journal time
• writers workshop
• writing prompts
• reading response notebooks

Teaching students the writing process...

• brainstorming
• writing drafts
• revising and editing
• publishing

Writing for a variety of purposes/audiences...

• write letters to family members and friends
• make lists
• write a paragraph to explain
• write a story to remember or imagine

Teach Students to become fluent with handwriting, spelling, sentence fluency and word processing...

• tracing modeled writing
• hold a pencil correctly
• sight word/star word memorization
• student dictionaries
• typing writing on the computer

Create an engaged community of writers...

• teacher modeled writing
• sharing
• choices in writing
• feedback from other students, teacher and parents
• publish writing and share it beyond the classroom.