How to Engage Your Students in Writing in 7 Minutes or Less!
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| January Morning Riddles |
First 7 Morning Minutes At School:
#1 - Arriving at School
#2 - Check-In Responsibilities
#3- Hello to Friends and sitting at Table or Desk
#4 - Getting Morning Riddle Page from basket
#5 - Reading their riddle [even before getting back to seat]
#6 - Still reading and thinking!
#7 - Writing!
Keep reading to find out how you can see your students writing within 7 minutes of entering your classroom...
This is a collection of 21 January riddles for your students to read, think, write and answer. These riddles are a great writing activity for morning seat work. Students settle right in with reading and writing. It is motivating because the children love to guess what today's riddle answer might be.
Each riddle is a winter idea and contains many high frequency words. Your students read the riddle, think, and write a sentence that answers the question. Next, they illustrate the sentence that they wrote. This is a motivating writing, reading and thinking literacy activity that you may use for morning seat work, homework, for fast finishers or anytime. This product includes
teacher directions, bin labels and an answer key. Also there are covers if you wish to make a 'January Riddle' booklet.
If you find out that your students are reading and writing and engaged in thinking AND you want them to continue with this morning activity, you can find riddles for February also. February riddles are about Valentine's Day, the Presidents and more. Try it for a month and you will see your students engaged in reading and writing before they even start their school day. These morning riddles are appropriate for grades 1-2 and homeschoolers.
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| February Morning Riddles |