Do At Home Writing - Grades K-2
| Types of Writing | Steps of Writing Process | Prompts | Assessment |
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Day 1 Words and Labels Label the items in your bedroom. |
Day 2 Brainstorm Choose a topic and make a list of what you know and what you'd like to know about the topic. |
Day 3 Once Upon a Time... |
Day 4 Voice Does it sound like you? |
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Day 5 Sentences Write a sentence about each thing in your room (e.g., I sleep in my soft bed every night with my favorite teddy bear.) |
Day 6 Organization Choose a way to organize your list; story web; beginning, middle, end; classify; word bank; story structure (character, plot, events, problem, solution); illustrations. |
Day 7 Once there was... |
Day 8 Organization Do you have a good beginning and ending? Is it interesting? |
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Day 9 Journals Keep a journal or diary of places you go. Remember to date your entries. |
Day 10 Prewrite Write a first draft. |
Day 11 One day I ... |
Day 12 Organization Does it make sense? Are your ideas clear? |
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Day 13 Poetry Write a poem using this structure:
But I can't --- |
Day 14 Edit (Revise) Share your work with another person and check for story ideas (does it make sense?), punctuation, and spelling. |
Day 15
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Day 16 Organization Look for a logical sequence of your ideas. |
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Day 17 Fantasy/Fiction Write a make-believe story. |
Day 18 Rewrite Rewrite your story making the corrections, being careful about handwriting and spacing. |
Day 19 I've always wanted to know about... |
Day 20
Look for period, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, apostrophes, commas, and capitals at the beginning of the sentence and proper names. |
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Day 21 Realistic Fiction Write a story about something that could happen. |
Day 22 Publish Publish your final draft using one of these forms; pop-up book, flip book, book with a cover you design, accordion book, folded book. |
Day 23 My favorite... |
Day 24
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Day 25 Research Choose an animal. Read non-fiction books to learn facts about the animal. Write a report using facts. |
Day 26 Share Share your book by reading it to someone. |
Day 27 I wonder... |
Day 28 Writing Rubric Looking for your grade-level's writing assessment form to evaluate your writing on the 4-point scale.
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