Writing Office Folder 3rd 4th 5th Grade Writing Workshop Anchor Chart Scaffolds

Writing skills and writing strategies for narrative, opinion, persuasive, expository, and informative writing are here! Empower your students to become more independent during writer’s workshop! These writing tips and reminders anchor charts are great to give students and set them up for success in writing. These writing office folders are easy to store and are great for providing privacy, all while giving students lots of information in one place! This resource helps with student engagement + independence and allows more time for YOU to pull your guided writing groups.

Provide your writers with the gift of a personal writing workstation! This writing tool is sure to help students with personal narrative, information, and opinion writing. PLUS, some common mini-lessons you have taught throughout the year are IN this office, too! Students no longer have the excuse of “I forgot” when the strategy is truly at their fingertips. A digital Writing Office (compatible with Google Slides) and a Pre-Assembled Writing Office option (making assembly faster with the pre-assembled template) are included, too!

Elements Include:

• Writing Office Title
• Three Types of Writing
• Paragraph Structure
• Stretch Your Sentence
• Writing Process Tracker (use a paperclip or mini clothespin to slide across)
• How to Brainstorm
• How to Create a Draft
• How to Revise
• How to Edit
• How to Publish
• Hook Your Reader
• Powerful Conclusions
• Feeling and Emotion Words
• Common Homophones
• Transition Words
• Ways to Use Dialogue
• Making Contractions
• Sensory Details
• Using Excellent Word Choice

*All charts come in color AND black/white.

Your students will love having their own personal writing space. Mine often used it as a privacy folder, but one that gave them the tricks and tools to enhance their writing. They'll be asking for their writing office before you know it, and their writing will most definitely show that they are using it too! 

Helpful Tips:

• Watch this YouTube video on how to assemble this writing office.
• Precut charts for students ahead of time (TIME SAVER!)
• Model whole group to show where and how to glue the charts. We always did it as a class together.
• Build “along the way” as skills are being taught. This saves time on assembly AND questions about things they have not been taught.
• Preassemble for students so they are ready for use.
  

These posters and paper choices are GREAT for setting up your writing center:
Writing Center Posters and Paper Templates

Need a writing office for a primary/beginning writer?
Grab it here: Primary Writing Office

Want to differentiate and combine the two versions?
Grab it here: Writing Office Bundle

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Four the Love of Teaching says, "My students have really enjoyed utilizing this resource and I have seen improvement in their writing since implementing it. Students are able to have quick access to many different parts of the writing process (eg. powerful conclusions, etc.) and can track their work using the writing stages tracker at the top."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kayla B. says, "This resource is absolutely perfect for my fourth graders! I love the layout of the pages and my students were easily able to follow my lead when putting it all together. It offers great examples and I love that students can easily keep track of which stage of the writing process they are on with this."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carolyn T. says, "This resource is so helpful to build independence during writer’s workshop. Students can stay more engaged in that they have all the tools in front of them to use instead of leaving their writing spot to ask for help multiple times. Keeps their writing stamina up which is great!!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Elizabeth B. says, "AMAZING resource! I had students assemble the folders over the span of several weeks, gluing just 1 or 2 parts each day as a mini-lesson. Then students practiced using the skill/topic in writing workshop. Once the folders were complete, I laminated them to last the whole year. Even with frequent use, some students’ folders still looked great at the end of the year and can be used as a resource next year, too. "

Looking for more?

Helpful super-mini anchor charts to add to writing notebooks/folders that support students during their writing can be found below! They make a great reference section in any writing notebook or folder!

→ Writing Process Charts

→ Thesaurus Charts

→ Writing Hooks and Leads Charts

→ Writing Conclusions Charts

→ Show Don’t Tell Charts

→ Punctuation Charts
→ Figurative Language Charts

→ 6 Traits of Writing Charts

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