Includes: a note-taking poster
Focus: explicitly teaching students note-taking skills
Map it is a Quick Write in The Writing Book (page 117) that would make a great post-holiday activity.
Students could identify one event/place from the holidays and draw/annotate a map. Refer to the attached example.
Check out our on demand workshop Organsing ideas for writing.
Includes: a note-taking poster
Focus: explicitly teaching students note-taking skills
Using funny animal images to warm students up for writing
Focus: generating ideas, sentences, words, spelling, punctuation, editing
Focus: writing a story in six sentences