We've jumped into the writing pool and the water is just fine!
I revised my student writing journal to incorporate the Common Core focus on the three types of writing: opinion, informative and narrative. Last week we started by doing an opinion piece about fall. The sentence stem was either: I like fall because, I love fall because or I don't like fall because. Then, after reading 2 non-fiction books about leaves during Storytime, we started an informational piece on leaves and will wrap that up today. Tomorrow we'll start writing a narrative piece about an autumn memory.
Before we even started writing, Writing Dude visited us and taught us about the 3 Types of Writing. I also have a poster that I display at our Writing Station to remind us of the types of writing.
It's a freebie that I'm sharing over at
If you'd like to see what my writing journal looks like and what it's all about click below
Awesome! We should link up some time! I am totally absorbed into Common Core writing for mainly grades 3-5! I like all your writing ideas!
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