Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Great Lists Inspire Great Writing
A writer's workshop idea where students work together to brainstorm a list a possible writing topics to use throughout the year. Idea lists for primary and intermediate students are provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Wacky "I Will Not" Chalkboard
Students can use this writing idea from the book Wacky We-Search Reports by Barry Lane to demonstrate understanding in any content area. Students use the idea of writing "I will not " sentences to show their knowledge of various...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Words That Describe the Senses
Learn about words in a story that describe feelings or the different senses.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Students engage in writing workshop, using a timeline to focus in on and write about a specific event.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Desert Theme
For this lesson, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Bright Ideas for Writing
Looking for writing ideas? Here are two groups of writing prompts: one for grades 1-2 and one for 3-5. They are even organized by type of prompt as well. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.10
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!
Through the story, Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come, students find out about Henry and his new kindergarten class. As a class, they write about what it is like in kindergarten class.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Why Do Writers Write?
A slide show with nine slides explaining the author's purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing
In this instructional activity, young scholars will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Young...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Reports in Kindergarten
Lesson which provides three types of reports for early elementary young scholars to share. These allow young students to see themselves as writers with something useful to contribute from an early age.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teaching Audience in Interactive Writing
Lesson which teaches elementary students the importance and significance of keeping the audience in mind when writing. Students write invitation letters and perform extension activities while learning these concepts. Good resource.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Some Animals Don't Do That!
In this lesson plan, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for to highlight the trait of idea development. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight what topics cannot do. Students generate a list of...
Education.com
Education.com: 1st Grade Opinion Writing Practice
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of worksheets will engage kids in writing their own opinions and identifying their reasons for these opinions. Graphic organizers for opinion writing and prompts with "I would rather"...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to the Research Process
In this scaffolded lesson, 1st graders will independently gather information about elephants and then compile this information with their peers. This lesson is part of a unit that will culminate with an expository writing assignment.
Success Link
Success Link: Descriptive Writing Mittens
Use this lesson plan to teach descriptive writing. A checklist is provided so students can self-monitor their writing.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Story Elements (1St Grade) Match
This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of story element definitions. Students will match the correct definition of a story element to its corresponding definition. Picture cues are provided on this review resource.
Education.com
Education.com: Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice. At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
Other
Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten: Launching Persuasive Writing in Kindergarten
A kindergarten teacher shares how she introduced persuasive writing in her classroom. After a discussion about "problems" that need to be fixed in their school, the class decided they wanted to write the principal a persuasive letter...
Education.com
Education.com: Draw the Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their imagination to complete the story. How will it begin? How will it end? Great lesson for practicing sequencing.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Fact vs. Opinion
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn and practice separating fact from opinion.
US Department of Education
Us Department of Education: Help Your Child Learn to Write Well
This is a practical explanation and list of reasons parents should encourage their children in their writing, and ways they can do that. There are pointers for parents and things they should know about what children need in order to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy
How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: I Need a Pet
This is a fun lesson to allow young scholars to try to convince their parents to buy them a pet of their choice in an opinion letter.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!
Students will read and discuss the story, Ira Sleeps Over, by Bernard Waber and write a persuasive paragraph about the story, using a Think-sheet to guide the writing. [Requires Adobe Reader.]