SESSION 3  |  Grades K-2 / ELL Levels 1-2 | HANDOUT

Teach both reader & writer workshops in K-2

Teach writing at all developmental stages

Recognize the developmental stages within the modes of writing.

Teach skills in writer’s workshop.
Apply them in the reading block.

Utilize the writing templates that honor the developmental stages.

Writing templates that support written responses appropriate for the primary grades.

Communicate inferences in what-and-why persuasive responses.

Young readers write out their thinking in pictures, words, and sentences.

Photocopy the bookmark sheets back to back and cut them individually. Students reference the FRONT side when they are writing in pictures and labels and the BACK side when writing in words and sentences. What & 3 Whys bookmark | What, Why, & How bookmark

List-writing template | No lines | With lines

Expect the what and why in text-based responses

Convert the last thought as a reader into the first thought as a writer.

Grades 2-3
Mini-Lesson Resources

Identify best text evidence.