6th Grade Narrative Writing Strategy Cards

Hey,  K-8 writing teachers, specialists, interventionists, coaches, and anyone who using the Writing Pathways book by Lucy Calkins to teach Writing Workshop: Are you tired of teaching writing strategies to your students and then they either don't practice them, forget how do them, or practice them wrong? Are you looking for a way to support your students towards independence so that you don't always have to be right by their side in order for them to practice the strategies you've just taught them?

Now, if you use the checklists and rubrics in the Writing Pathways book by Lucy Calkins, then you know you have a lot of skills and strategies to teach related to the 3 big writing goals (structure, development, and language conventions). Have student strategy cards ready to give your students after you meet with them to help them practice all the writing strategies  for opinion, narrative, and information writing without you present.

This resource is PERFECT for anyone who uses the Units of Study for teaching writing or the Writing Pathways book, wants a way to help their students independently practice strategies for strong overall structure of writing, leads, transitions, organization, endings, elaboration, craft, spelling, and punctuation.

Our writing strategy cards match all the strategies you teach on the checklist or rubric found in the Writing Pathways book by Lucy Calkins. They have kid-friendly language that includes words, phrases, or full sentences that match the goal for either structure, development, or language conventions. It also includes a full color picture to match the words and help students independently practice the strategy. They are ready for you to use with your students in mini lessons, strategy groups and individual conferences.

Product Description:

- The cards are currently 8.5 x 11 in the PDF document.

- Each card comes in full color.

- We suggest you print them on cardstock and laminate them for longer use. 

- You can shrink them down on the copier to give to students. Or you can blow them up super big and use as an anchor chart or poster around the room. Or you can leave them the size they are. The choice is yours.