SAVE ON WINTER FAVORITES
Want to make sure your writing center is effective? I’ll be honest: it was the literacy station area that gave me the most trouble for the longest time. It was messy, unorganized, and most of all, my students just didn’t like it. That’s when I thought about his area in my classroom differently.
Your writing center is a place for your students to fall in love with writing, not a place to keep them busy on independent work while you take a small group of students. In this article, we’ll talk about why a winter animals writing center will spark your student’s creativity, but we’ll also talk about how to make your writing center a place your students can’t wait to visit.
You aim to make your students love independent writing at your writing center. To do that, your writing activities must be:
Engaging: Provide a writing activity for your students to DO rather than write in their journals. Is there a cut-and-paste writing activity to use? Perhaps your students could use note cards to make a recipe and act out making the meal.
Interesting: Even the most popular activities become stale after a while. Adding many different topics and choices for your writing center will draw your student’s interest.
Differentiated: Whether your students are just learning to write words or sentences, each kiddo should feel successful at your writing center, no matter their skill level.
Independent: This is the tough one! Sending students just learning the basics of writing to a table by themselves to write. This means we have to build their confidence as well as their writing abilities.
Curriculum Based: Are they practicing what you’ve taught them during your whole group writing plans? Are they able to practice the different writing genres at your writing center?
You want your students to be excited to write independently. But there is so much to manage when setting up a writing center. It’s helpful to make one goal and keep it in the back of your mind when choosing writing activities. Here are some suggestions:
You’re in luck! At Literacy Stations, we have designed our activities to cover everything you need to add to your writing center. For the winter animals writing center, you’ll get some fun writing activities that will easily meet your needs
In this winter animals writing center, there are plenty of writing activities to help you meet the needs of each of your students. From lists and handwriting books to help your beginning writers to many opportunities for your confident writers to write full sentences or paragraphs, this writing center has all your students need to write about winter animals.
Choosing winter animals as a topic for your students to write about is bound to be popular. I mean, penguins, reindeer, and polar bears? Could we choose a more fun writing center idea? Here’s how to build interest for your winter animals writing center in your other lessons as well:
Can you imagine how excited your students will be to go to your winter animals writing center?
Are you teaching habitats? What about endangered animals? Or maybe your students are learning about the season of winter? Either way, adding a winter animals writing center to your literacy stations is a fun way for your students to write about what they learned.
Not only is this writing center a super interesting topic for your students, it’s also interactive. With word wall word cards, a cute polar bear puppet to feed their finished writing to, and writing activities with a winter animals spinner to choose a topic, your students will be engaged right away.
The writing activities included in the winter animals writing center are designed for independent work. Something is available for your struggling writers and your students ready to write sentences or paragraphs. We want all your students to feel successful, whether they write a list of words or a narrative about winter animals.
Remember, the more engaging you make your writing center, the more your students will want to attend. And the more you vary the activities based on your student’s needs, the better they will write independently.
The winter animals writing center is available for download right now. Grab it now and start teaching, stop planning.