Activities:

-Student can begin to keep their own journal where they keep track of important events in their daily lives.

-Students can do an activity where they map out the beginning, middle, and end to the worm's story.

Activities:

-Students could write about an exciting day/experience using a step-by-step organizational style.

-Almost all of my students love roller coasters, so they could write a story that focuses in on one ride they went on. (An alternative assignment could be given if a student has never been on a roller coaster.)

-Students could write about their day using a sequential organization method. Once all of the events are written in the ascending order, we could then go in and add things like voice and word choice.

Activities:

-Students could go on a word walk around the school and collect words they see. We could then create a word wall with some of the vocabulary we collected.

-Students could write a short story using some of the vocabulary from the book.

-Students could choose a new vocabulary word they wish to explore and create a word web surrounding it. (Draw a picture representing it, list it's part of speech, definition, root word/prefixes/suffixes etc.)

Activities:

-Give students a writing assignment with no parameters. This will allow them to think creatively without any barriers.

-Create an idea wall where students can pitch various writing prompts.

Activities:

-We could create a chart as a class that lists/explains all of the different patterns an author could use to organize a story (counting, days of the week, see-saw structure, circular structure etc.)

-Students could write their own story using this alphabetic style of writing.

-Students could write a poem describing themselves using words that start with the letters in their names.

Activities:

-We can go on a brief nature walk and take note of what we see. We can then come together as a class and talk about how we can vividly describe what we saw.

-Students could write a vivid description of their favorite flower. They could also draw a picture of it to accompany it.

Activities:

-Students could pick an inanimate object in the room and write a letter voicing what they think their complaint would be.

-Students could write a response to one of the crayons letters.

Activities:

-Students will be asked to partner up and describe an image to their partner. The student who is being described to will attempt to draw the image that is being described using as many details as possible.

-Students could write their own story about a special experience they had with their own families.

Activities:

-We can use this book as a jumping off point for a writing activity in which I use sentence stems to help guide kids through the process of creating fully formed sentences. (This would be seen as a beginners activity, which we would branch off of at a later date)

Activities:

-Students could write an inverse of this book (Yes, David) and write out things that David should be doing instead of what he chooses to do in the story.

-Students could practice creating their own piece of writing using a similar repetitive organizational structure.

Activities:

-Students could create a chart listing out the traits of a good scientist as demonstrated in the book.

-Students could write a brief research paper over a topic of their choosing. They will be asked to implement some sort of chart/side heading with attached picture /graph into their paper. We will go over things like proper spacing, appropriate use of capitalization, and indentation before we begin.

Activities:

-Students could practice mapping out a story by drawing pictures rather than writing.

-Have students try and convey a message through unconventional methods (for example, they could draw squiggles in a way that is meant to convey a certain emotion).

Activities:

-This book is a celebration of nature, so we could explore various poems about nature.

-Students could write their own nature-based poem.

-Students could pick one of the poems written by either the girl or the tree and write a poetic response to it.

This book uses beautiful lyrical text to spread messages about kindness and self-acceptance. It is not only a great introduction to poetry, but it also demonstrates to kids how authors can change up the length/style of a sentence to convey different meanings/emotions.

Activities:

- Students could draw a picture of a heart and then put different words of phrases that describe their heart inside of their drawing. (For example, my heart is kind, my heart is strong, my heart loves baseball etc.)

-Students could complete a piece of writing where they will be tasked with changing up the lengths of their sentences to create various impacts. (For example, a short sentence for a distinct, impactful statement and a longer sentence to help create imagery.)

Activities:

-Students can write a personal narrative about their life up to this point as a whole, or a special experience they've had.

Activities:

-Students could create a table of contents for their writing journals.

-Students could create a glossary for a piece of informational writing that we have written.

-Students could choose a research topic and create different headings for the different aspects of that topic they are going to touch on.