Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Product #: 4002215
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Guided Journaling for Beginning Readers and Writers

This teacher resource gives you dozens of ideas for captivating children's interest in writing and suggestions for developing their writing skills.

Journal writing is effective for children at all levels of literacy development because they are encouraged to write about their own experiences. This teacher resource book helps you incorporate the benefits of journal writing into every aspect of your curriculum.

You will find simple directions for making a dozen unique cross-curricular journals; practical ideas for managing journal writing time; and tips for conferencing, publishing, and keeping children motivated to do their best work.

The varied ideas in this teaching resource will help you develop and maintain a classroom routine that emphasizes how much fun it is to write.

Includes:

• A mini lesson for each type of journal
• Reproducible covers and writing pages
• Ideas to motivate young writers
• Tips for conferencing with children about their writing

112 pages