Daily Writing Journal for 1st Grade with Handwriting and Directed Drawings

Do you need a simple, yet effective daily writing activity that will help build independent writers? These phonics-based daily writing journals for First Grade combine multiple skills of drawing, handwriting, and sentence writing for an all-in-one writing warm-up activity. Use this daily to watch your students become independent and confident writers!

These Daily Writing Journals can be used for morning work, writing centers, independent work, or as a warm-up activity for all of your writing lessons. They are aligned to First Grade Common Core Standards, focusing on both writing and phonics standards. 

This Resource Includes Over 180 Daily Writing Journal Pages With:

• Handwriting Practice
• Directed Drawing 
• Sentence Writing
• Phonics-Based Practice

You Will Also Receive:

• A Google Slides version to project on screen
• Pages to teach how to use this resource
• Differentiation ideas to support all of your students!

Click on the preview to see a closer look at the resource! 

THE FOLLOWING PHONICS SKILLS ARE INCLUDED:

Letter Sounds:

• A-Z (X is an ending sound)

Ending Sounds:

• -b, -d, -g, -m, -n, -p, -s, -t, -x

Short Vowels/Word Families: 

• ab, an, ag, ap, at, mixed short a
• eb, ed, eg, en, et, mixed short e
• ib, ig, ip, it, ix, mixed short i
• ob, od, og, op, ot, mixed short o
• ub, ug, un, up, ut, mixed short u

CVC Words

• an, at, ad, am, et, en, ed, id, in, ig, it, om, ot, op, ot, ug, ut, ub, un, mixed cvc

Digraphs

• th, sh, ch, wh, ph, ck, mixed digraphs

Consonant Blends

• bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, mixed L-blends
• br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, mixed R-blends
• sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, mixed S-blends

R-Controlled Vowels

• ar, er, ir, or, ur, mixed practice

CVCe Words

• a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e, cvce review

Long Vowels

• ay, ai, ee, ea, ie, igh, y, oa, ow, oe, ue, ui, mixed cvce

Additional Practice with Mono-Syllabic and Multi-Syllabic words

This Daily Phonics-Based Writing Journal was designed to give your students more practice with the writing skills that there never seems to be enough time for...handwriting and drawing!

Handwriting Practice

After the first few weeks of school, we often stop teaching handwriting daily. Our students may forget to focus on forming each letter correctly and they begin to just write as fast as they can. With these daily writing journals, students will spend time focusing on handwriting practice every day, without adding additional handwriting activities to their writing lesson.

Directed Drawings

The directed drawings were created to help your students learn how to draw over 180 basic pictures, using simple lines and shapes. They will follow the step-by-step drawing example, then add details to make it their own. Your students will become more confident drawing on their own, using the drawing skills they’ve learned throughout the rest of their writing activities.

Phonics-Based

Each day focuses on a specific phonics skill to combine what they are learning in their phonics instruction with a writing activity. Students will isolate the phonics sound in the word that they are drawing and practice writing the letter, word, or phonics pattern. When students are able to phonetically spell words, their writing ability will improve as they use more words when writing. 

Just print and go!

These daily writing journals can be used throughout the year to continually review handwriting, drawing, and sentence writing. You can make these daily writing journals into a spiral-bound journal, display them on your SMART Board to use your own notebooks, or just print them daily.

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⭐️ Differentiate with Kindergarten Journals, too! ⭐️

Find the Kindergarten Daily Writing Journals from Sweet for Kindergarten here.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This resource makes handwriting a bit more fun for students with inclusion of drawing activity. It also provides a bit more of a challenge for sounds included and having to use the sound in independent sentences. Highly recommend!" -Jennifer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"I love this resource, and so do my students. I like the combination of directed drawing along with sentence writing practice. Keeps my students engaged. Thank you." -Debbie

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I love how this resource aligns writing with phonics skills! I used this in writing and word work stations and my students loved being able to have a directed drawing to practice too. " -Reece

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students LOVE this, and I do too! We do it everyday in a 15-ish minute transition block before lunch. The one day we did not have a chance to do it the kids were asking about it at the end of the day. My students have grown TREMENDOUSLY in just the 4 weeks we have been using it so far. They are excited about writing creative sentences and making sure they have everything they need. I would buy this product again in a heartbeat!" - Katherine

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