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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reasons to Write

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions features a motivating, kid-friendly song that celebrates the reasons to write in everyday life.
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Professional Doc
Queen's Printer for Ontario

Ontario Education: A Guide to Effective Instruction in Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive guide is designed to provide classroom teachers of Kindergarten to Grade 3 with practical approaches and resources for delivering an effective writing program. Sample lessons are included for each topic discussed.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Audience in Interactive Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson which teaches elementary students the importance and significance of keeping the audience in mind when writing. Students write invitation letters and perform extension activities while learning these concepts. Good resource.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice. At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. In this article, he recommends some reasonable approaches, activities, and routines to help facilitate and teach writing in Kindergarten.