Grade(s): 5
Pages: 216, Digital Resource CD included.
Features: reproducible, perforated, answer key included
Activities: 5 activities for each of 180 days
ISBN: 9781425815288

This standards-based resource provides an engaging and purposeful practice page for every day of the school year.

180 Days of Writing is an easy-to-use resource that provides teachers and parents with daily practice activities for First Grade students to build writing and grammar skills. Students interact with mentor texts and then apply their learning by writing opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative pieces. This excellent classroom resource features:

• 18 theme-based, two-week units – each aligned to one writing standard.
• A framework for students to practice steps of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
• Versatile daily practice pages that are easy to prepare and implement.
• Genre-specific rubrics that provide authentic assessment to help differentiate instruction.
• Digital resources including assessment-analysis tools.
• Correlated to the Common Core and other state standards.

Parents looking for supplemental writing activities can begin this title at any time during the school year. It works just a well for summer skill retention. Purchase the grade your child will be entering and aim for a couple of pages a day. At the end of summer your child will have improved their writing skills.

The activities in 180 Days of Writing are aligned to Common Core Standards.

The Teacher Resource CD contains pdf versions of all the worksheets and assessment analysis resources. Teachers can use the included diagnostic tools to record evidence of student learning, assess student and class progress, and identify students' intervention or enrichment needs.

The writing skills targeted in this book include:

• opinion practice
• Informative/explanatory practice
• narrative practice
• pre-writing activities
• drafting activities
• revising activities
• editing activities
• publishing activities
• writing rubrics, posters, and tips

Table of Contents

Introduction and Research
How to Use This Book
Standards Correlations
Table of Contents
Daily Practice Pages
Answer Key
Writing Rubrics
Writing Analyses
The Writing Process
Editing Marks
Writing Tips
Writing Signs
Peer/Self-Editing Checklist

References Cited
Contents of the Digital Resource CD


Common Core State Standards Addressed
Instructions provided to enable printing of a customized correlation report to your state standards.


College and Career Readiness Standards
Writing 5.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

Writing 5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Writing 5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using elective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Language 5.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Language 5.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Language 5.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Language 5.4 Consult reference materials (e.g. dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital to find the pronunciation and to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

Language 5.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Language 5.6 Acquire and use accurately grade appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g. however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).