The Six Best Writing Lessons Ever

The K-1 lessons include plenty of engaging, creative learning opportunities, such as:

Create Your Own Book Cover: Students learn to recognize author’s purpose and genre by designing a narrative book cover and a thematically related expository book cover.
Beginning, Middle, End; Students explore narrative structure by identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a narrative picture book before using the same process to plan a story of their own.
Listen and Imagine: Students listen to descriptive segments and identify details using their five senses.
Modeling Elaborative Detail: Students learn to show, rather than telling, by giving specific details, and participate in the modeling process by both asking and answering detail generating questions.
The Foundation for Informational/Expository WritingーSorting Details by Topic: Using pictures or text, students sort and categorize details based on a given topic.
Exploring Opinions: Students learn to verbalize opinions about things they like or dislike, approve or disapprove of.

The lessons on Constructed Response will empower teachers with:

Strategic Reading-Informed Writing: Reading and writing go hand in hand, so learning to “Read with Author’s Eyes” gives students the ability to read, analyze and annotate effectively.
Naming Givens and Variables: This lesson breaks down constructed response questions into the givens and variables, ensuring that students are answering the question successfully.
Turning Questions into Responses: Have your students ever sat looking at that blank sheet of paper, wondering how to start a response? Good news! Using the question itself, students are taught to turn the question into the first sentence of the response.
Flip the Sentence Subject: To avoid redundant sentence structure, add sentence variety, and paraphrase an author’s words, this strategy will transform student writing in all genres.
Paraphrasing: How do I take the information from the source text and formulate the response? This lesson teaches students to use text evidence.

Create a classroom of strong writers, readers, and speakers through writing lessons aligned to the standards