Activities Like...

I am linking up with Blog Hoppin’s Thankful Linky. Today I am completing this sentence:

Activities like…writing are easier with the help of writing center tools.

I am reposting about my writing center lists below. I have to say that my kids love these and I try to add a new list onto their list every couple of days to help generate new writing ideas. I rarely get the “I don’t know what to write about.”

****The is a repost from 9/14/13****

Do you use writing folders? Last year I used some of Deanna Jumps’s Writing packs and I loved the way she organized the folders. A great pack if you don’t own it and are looking for some writing guidance. I own three of them. Here is one of my student’s folders:

This year I bought the ones with 3 prongs so I could put my blackline word center lists in them to use.

I don’t put all of the word lists in, just some of the ones I thing they will use the most (A Year of Words). Each table group has a “little” pack with all of the words we add. I add them as we study new topics, enter a new season and/or month.

If you want just “the little,” they are available separately:

It’s been a while since I have posted a freebie, so how about a free blackline writing center list. Click below to grab your family words in the blackline version: