No planning needed! You'll have everything you need boost student writing confidence and mastery with daily writing bell ringers. Six weeks of standards-based practice. Students revise and edit sample narrative texts while they practice key writing skills -- great for test prep!It makes sense that your warm ups reinforce your writing lessons! These warm ups go hand-in-hand with your narrative unit, so your students are working on the same skills! Here's what teachers are saying about my warm ups:"Love this! I was looking for new ideas to incorporate into my warm ups and this is just what I needed! Thanks so much!""This is a very helpful resource to use with struggling writers, and with students who like to get to the point with a minimum of fuss and detail. It strategically shows students how to add extra, relevant information to stretch a sentence.""Awesome resource! It gets students writing everyday!"This is what you'll get with this editable print and digital resource:six weeks of standards-based narrative warm ups30 student warm up activitiesprintable response sheets for the weeka teacher guide with scope & sequence chart so you can target the skills your students needweek 1: strengthen introduction, revise sentence, use precise words & description, revise for organization & sentence structure, punctuationweek 2: create a thesis, use subordinating conjunctions, description with figurative language, topic of paragraph, correct wordiness & punctuationweek 3: communicate important reasons/actions, sentence variety with prep phrases, sensory detail, internal coherence, spelling & usageweek 4: thesis statement, sentence variety, improve verb choice, provide closing sentence, use of commasweek 5: develop details, use adverbial phrases, incorporate detail, remove unnecessary information, use semicolonweek 6: develop introductory paragraph, internal coherence, use adjectives, external coherence, past perfect verb tensesuggested answer key - please note that your student answers will vary. The answer key provides you an idea of how your students might address the task.You'll love having:teacher guide with chart of skills for each day and weekstudent response form you can use when you project the warm ups on your white boardthe digital file to share with studentsnarrative-based writing practice30 student warm ups to use for mini lessonssupport in helping students understand how to write a narrativesuggested answer keystudent warm ups alternated with answer key - so you can project the warm up and then a suggested response editable to meet your students' needs!These are focused and deliberate! Each day addresses a different skill.organizationsentence structureword choicerevisionproofreadingThis resource takes students through six weeks of narrative writing skills where they have the opportunity to practice specific writing standards.Reasons to this resource:ready to use -- project or print or share through your digital classroomperfect for daily warm up, review, writing centers, test prep, or mini lessonsstudents can work independently or with a partnerdaily reinforcement of narrative writing skillsstandards basedPlease see the preview for all the goodies. If you have any questions, please let me know in the Q&A section below. I will get right back to you!Please note:You'll find the links to the digital resource in the PDF that says "Print & Digital" This product works well with: Set 1: Narrative Writing Warm UpsSet 3: Expository WritingSet 4: Persuasive Writing: Daily Editing Warm Ups21 Mini Lessons for Teaching Narrative WritingI'd love to have you follow my store and be the first to learn about new products, freebies, and sales. Just click on the green star by my store name.I can't wait to hear from you! I truly appreciate you taking time to leave feedback!Happiness always Marypat
