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Grade 1 Strategies

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* Storytelling

* Writer’s Workshop routines (paper, how to signal for a conference, what to do when you’re done, etc.)

* Developing a list of writing ideas

* Webs to plan

* 5 finger planner (Marvelous mini lessons)

* Illustrations to get ideas

* Draw-Label-Caption

* Writing Bingo (Lori Jamison Rog)

* Heart Maps (Georgia Heard)

* Leaf Characters (makes a leaf person from a fall leaf and then develops a character write-up based on this picture)

* Semantic Question Map (Maureen McLaughlin)

* KWL

* Word Choice books (changed the sentence “Lucy looked very nice today” to include good word choice.  Do this several times with different sentences)

* Colour Poems (using the 5 senses – Lori Jamison Rog)

* Great beginnings

* Hook the reader (Lori Jamison Rog)

* Showing NOT telling (Lori Jamison Rog)

* Stretching sentences (Lori Jamison Rog)

* Found Poetry - identifying good word choice in picture books (done as a class).

* Excellent Endings – Ruth Culham