writing ideas - Literacy Please https://literacyplease.com A website dedicated to all things literacy Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:37:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://literacyplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-favicon2-32x32.png writing ideas - Literacy Please https://literacyplease.com 32 32 191038029 Mini Writing Goals https://literacyplease.com/product/mini-writing-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mini-writing-goals https://literacyplease.com/product/mini-writing-goals/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:28:12 +0000 https://literacyplease.com/?post_type=product&p=2957 Benefits for Students:

  • Encourages independence and ownership
  • Builds writing confidence with achievable steps
  • Keeps students focused and motivated
  • Supports growth in key writing skills over time

Benefits for Teachers:

  • Supports conferring and small group planning
  • Makes differentiation more manageable
  • Helps with classroom management during writing time

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]]> This collection of manageable writing goals is designed specifically for teachers of kindergarten through second grade to support young writers during Writing Workshop. With simple, student-friendly language and age-appropriate expectations, these goals help students stay focused, build confidence, and grow as writers—one step at a time.

Whether you're working on conventions, stamina, organization, or idea generation, these mini goals give your students a clear purpose each day. They also allow for easy differentiation, making it simple to meet students right where they are.

This resource is the perfect addition to your writing block, helping turn big writing goals into small wins your students can feel proud of.

Read how you can use these writing goals here.

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These include:

  • Writing partners choose a quiet spot to write.
  • Writing partners remind partners to write the whole time.
  • Writing partners remind partners to use the word wall.
  • Writing partners know what their partners are writing.
  • Writing partners share their writing.
  • Writing partners listen to their partners.
  • Writing partners tell their partners what they like about their writing.
  • Writing partners ask questions.
  • Writing partners give feedback.
  • Writing partners look at books for ideas.

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]]> https://literacyplease.com/product/buddy-writing-anchor-charts/feed/ 0 1476 Step-by-Step Paragraph Writing https://literacyplease.com/product/step-by-step-paragraph-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=step-by-step-paragraph-writing https://literacyplease.com/product/step-by-step-paragraph-writing/#respond Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:05:31 +0000 https://literacyplease.com/?post_type=product&p=459 Students will love this product! It's a hands-on visual that helps students understand how to write a paragraph on a single topic. The knowledge they obtain through these activities can then be transferred into their own writing. Teaching young writers can be a tricky task. This product gives you and your students the tools you need to write over 30 different narrative and expository paragraphs with a topic sentence and details. Using a graphic organizer, students will identify the main topic/idea of a group of pictures, put the pictures in order, and then use the pictures to help students write.

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  • baking cookies
  • ice cream truck
  • finding treasure
  • camping
  • birthday party
  • lemonade stand
  • school
  • the moon
  • baseball champions
  • detective/solving a case
  • searching for treasure
  • movie theater
  • in the garden
  • fishing
  • beach
  • the Arctic (narrative or expository)
  • fire/emergency (narrative or expository)
  • Valentine's Day
  • Christmas
  • decorating a Christmas Tree
  • Plymouth Rock/Pilgrims and Indians (narrative or expository)
  • Gingerbread Man
  • snowy day
  • winter

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]]> Keeping parents informed about their child’s behavior and the learning that occurs in the classroom helps to bridge the communication gap.

Each week students write a letter to their families about something they would like to share. Once the students share with their families, they return the letters to save for an end of the year keepsake. The letters can be put into a book and sent home on the last day.

In this resource, you will find:

  • parent letter explaining Friday Letters.
  • 5 cover page options for creating a book of the letters.
  • circle map to help students brainstorm about their week.
  • tree map to help students map out their ideas.
  • 70 paper themes with 4 line options for each.

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