Daily Reading and Writing Warm Ups for Spring Common Core Aligned

by Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti
2nd, 3rd and 4th Grades

Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups for Spring 

SALE $2.16

3rd, 4th and 5th Grade 
Spring Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups
Common Core State Standards Aligned

35 Original passages with writing prompts.


Writing is thinking made visible. It is the ability to organize one’s thoughts into a coherent form. It is analyzing, summarizing and thinking on paper. It is the gateway to higher order thinking.

The only way to adequately teach “higher order thinking” is through written analysis of facts, creative problem solving and constructing thoughtful, creative responses to the written word.

Students learn higher order thinking by direct instruction and teacher modeling. Sometimes Warm-Ups should be independent, but sometimes they should be modeled. A great trick for difficult prompts, as students are learning to think, is for the teacher to completely model a prompt by orally thinking and writing the assignment as students copy the entire process onto their papers. 

For this assignment, simply slip Daily Warm-Up worksheets into sheet protectors and have students write with dry erase markers! Students love dry erase markers. When the modeling is finished, have students slip their worksheets out of the sheet protector and use it as a guide as they re-read the prompt and write on their own. The same assignment, but with their original ideas.
SALE $2.

3rd, 4th and 5th Grade 
Spring Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups
Common Core State Standards Aligned

35 Original passages with writing prompts.


Writing is thinking made visible. It is the ability to organize one’s thoughts into a coherent form. It is analyzing, summarizing and thinking on paper. It is the gateway to higher order thinking.

The only way to adequately teach “higher order thinking” is through written analysis of facts, creative problem solving and constructing thoughtful, creative responses to the written word.

Students learn higher order thinking by direct instruction and teacher modeling. Sometimes Warm-Ups should be independent, but sometimes they should be modeled. A great trick for difficult prompts, as students are learning to think, is for the teacher to completely model a prompt by orally thinking and writing the assignment as students copy the entire process onto their papers. 

For this assignment, simply slip Daily Warm-Up worksheets into sheet protectors and have students write with dry erase markers! Students love dry erase markers. When the modeling is finished, have students slip their worksheets out of the sheet protector and use it as a guide as they re-read the prompt and write on their own. The same assignment, but with their original ideas.