Description
Support your students with making plans and brainstorming before they begin writing in a developmentally appropriate way. There are tons of different planning sheets that work for all writing genres: narrative writing, opinion writing, and non-fiction writing. This product is complete with activities, visuals, and printable sticky notes to up your writing small group game for your K-2 students and support teaching your students to make plans!
These writing small group activities work well in conjunction with any writing curriculums and will support you, not only meeting your standards but will also support your students where they are in their writing development!
This writing small groups activity for making plans and brainstorming gives you everything that you need to increase engagement in small groups, target writing support to exactly what your students need, and visual reminders to keep your kids improving while writing independently.
What Do I Get in the Brainstorming and Making Plans Product?
- Teaching tips and strategies
- Visual goals for the group
- Printable sticky notes to give to each student as a goal and reminder of the skill you are working on
- Planning sheets for narrative writing
- Planning sheets for how-to writing
- Planning sheets for non-fiction writing
- Planning sheets for opinion writing
- Half-size planning sheets to attach to writing pieces for narrative writing
- Half-size planning sheets to attach to writing pieces for non-fiction writing
- Half-size planning sheets to attach to writing pieces for how-to writing
- Half-size planning sheets to attach to writing pieces for opinion writing
- Idea brainstorming sheet for narrative writing
- Idea brainstorming sheet for opinion writing
- Idea brainstorming sheet for non-fiction writing
Writing Brainstorming and Making Plans Teaching Points Included:
- I can make a plan BEFORE I write!
- I can brainstorm BEFORE I write!
What Skills Does This Brainstorming and Making Plans Small Group Product Address?
- Students will plan out their writing step-by-step for narrative, non-fiction, and opinion writing.
- Students will brainstorm ideas for different writing genres.
What Literacy Standards Does This Brainstorming and Making Plans Product Address?
CCRA.W.1
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCRA.W.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCRA.W.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Production and Distribution of Writing
CCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCRA.W.5
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
W.K.5
With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
W.K.1
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…).
W.K.2
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
W.K.3
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
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