Third Grade Writer’s Notebook

I am so excited to take what I’ve been doing in first grade and apply it to third grade! I’ve been busy doing a ton of research on making a writer’s notebook and trying to get everything sorted out in my head.

I set up a rough draft of my Writer’s Notebook to figure out what I want to do (and don’t want to do) with my students.

Writer's Notebook (2)

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Teaching Character Traits using the Kevin Henkes mouse books

The past few weeks we have been immersed in my favorite books of the whole year: all of the Kevin Henkes mouse books! My students always love these books every year. I’m certain it is because the characters are quite relatable and SO much like my first graders! While I read these books they were all so interested and captivated! I heard so many connections while I was reading as well. My kiddos love the mouse characters!

After reading, I created some matching cards that had the book covers and a summary without any of the mouse names. They worked with a partner and read the cards and matched them with the correct book cover. After matching, they took a picture of their matches- they LOVED that part! It was also so easy for me to check their work. I’ll definitely use that as a way to check work again- possibly during stations.

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Spring Break Writing (Freebie)

 

Hello my long lost teacher friends! I have been SO busy that I have not been able to blog in months. Too much RTI, PLC, DRA, PDAS, etc etc. I know you can relate!! :)

I’m on Spring Break this week and so I am here to share a Spring Break Writing FREEBIE with you! I used this last year and I will be using it next week, too.

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