Easy to Use Kindergarten Writing Workshop Units

Kindergarten how-to writing

NONFICTION WRITING IN KINDERGARTEN

NONFICTION WRITING CELEBRATION

How-To Writing Anchor Charts

Growing Readers and Writers With Mentor Texts

cheep cheep cheep

Yeehaw for nonfiction!

We are kicking off our nonfiction writing unit by researching farm animals. Lillie brought in her chicks to share with the class. Everyone loved listening to the chicks cheep, watching them huddle together to keep warm and feeling their fluffy down. Teacher Lillie and her mom shared lots of information about chicks, hens and roosters.

nonfiction book bin labels

These Nonfiction Book Bin Labels have already peaked the interest of my little readers. The photos draw them in and help keep our nonfiction books organized.

 I am loving all the nonfiction book interest during Find Your Book Nook. 

  

fiction and nonfiction bear

We compared a fiction and nonfiction book about bears. 

After we read the books, we filled in these little mini books.

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nonfiction find it activity

We used post-it notes to find nonfiction text features, 

then practiced creating these features in our 

Nonfiction Try-It Books. 

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Facebook Fan Freebie: Nonfiction Find It Post-It Hunt

Links to other ideas about printing on post-it notes...

polar bear experts

I have 20 copies of this book...  We have been using them to identify nonfiction text features. We also buddied up with a 2nd grade class to help us read the book and pick 3 facts we wanted to remember. We used these facts to write our first nonfiction book with a fancy polar bear cover.

 

 

Our cover was inspired by Fairy Dust Teaching, but we used sharpies to draw our polar bears and white oil pastels to color them. Here is our polar bear facts sheet...

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