Writer’s Workshop Mini Opinion Writing Unit, Grade 2-3

     This writer’s workshop model supplemental writing unit is designed to develop  opinion writing skills  for grades 2-3. There are 10 mini-lessons in this Opinion Writing  Unit that build strong opinion writing  skills the prerequisite to writing to persuade. 

         This unit includes two Google slides documents. There is 35  teaching slides and  20 pages  in the digital student edition writing notebook  with a  detailed writing activity for each lesson in the unit. Each lesson includes an animated mentor writing piece for instruction and the teaching part of the lesson. Each lesson also includes a rather than writing prompt for students who are struggling with finding a topic.

        The writing lessons in the  unit start out with students creating a My favorite Things list for favorite foods, movies, activities, and books. The  first two lessons guide students  to learn, plan, organizing, and write their opinion writing. In lessons 3-4  the students learn to add buddy bonus sentences to their reasons and develop their examples and paragraphs. In lessons 5-6 students develop an introduction by hooking the reader with a question and their opinion.The Last two lessons help students develop their conclusion and offer advice to their reader with a call to action. 

         All mini units include the student notebook  that can be sent through the Google Classroom as one writing notebook or you can send each lesson separate. I share out the workbook to my students and add a new lesson each week to their existing notebooks.  The unit is broken down into a one month unit meeting two to three times a week. A total of 10 lessons. 

The product will include a PDF file with two google links that will ask you to make your own copy and rename your files. One Teacher edition and the other a student workbook. 

Writers Workshop Unit 3 How to Books: Writing to Teach Others, Kindergarten Level, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through all four Bends I to IV of Unit 3, Sessions 1 to 19. Students will choose activities they know how to do to write many how-to booksThe lesson plan bundle includes all components of the mini- lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, Unit Celebration Invitation, and Ideas.

Writers Workshop Gr 1 Unit 3 Writing Reviews Lesson Plan Bundle

Writers Workshop Grade 1Unit 3: Writing Reviews. (2013  edition).  This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to III of Unit 3, Sessions 1 to 18. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts, and Anchor charts. 

        In this unit students will learn that writing can give them a way to make and defend decisions and opinions. They will learn to write their judgments, their reasons for those judgments, and to organize their reasons, supplying supporting details. The students will write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure. This unit will encourage writers to develop opinions with multiple reasons, provide detailed descriptions, as well as strong openings and closings. It will also encourage students towards using and revising more complex sentences, using linking words. 

Writers Workshop Gr 1, Unit 1, Small moments: Writing with Focus, Detail and Dialogue Lesson Plan Bundle

Writers Workshop Grade 1Unit 1:Small moments: Writing with Focus, Detail and Dialogue. (2013  edition).  This lesson plan bundle guides you through all four Bends I to IV of Unit 1, Sessions 1 to 21. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.In this unit of study, you’ll build on your students’ knowledge of the  narrative writing process as they work to plan, draft, revise and edit small moment stories from their lives. The students will add dialogue and details to bring their stories to life. You’ll also help writers study mentor texts to discover craft moves and techniques they can try out in their own writing.

Writers Workshop Gr 1 Unit 2 Nonfiction Chapter Books Lesson Plan Bundle

  Writers Workshop Grade 1Unit 2: Nonfiction Chapter Books. (2013 edition).  This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to III of Unit 2, Sessions 1 to 20. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts    This unit takes children on a writing journey that builds in sophistication. It begins with instruction on how to make a basic type of information book—and ends with children creating multiple information chapter books.

Writers Workshop Grade 1, Units 1 to 4 Yearly Lesson Plan Bundle

      Writers Workshop Units 1 to 4: First Grade, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through all four Units of study throughout the year.The lesson plan bundle includes all components of the mini- lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, Unit Celebration Invitation, and Ideas.

    In Unit 1, Small moments: Writing with Focus, Detail and Dialogue guides students through narrative writing. Unit 2: Nonfiction Chapter Books. This lesson plan bundle guides you through informational writing. In unit 3 Writing Reviews. This lesson plan bundle guides you through opinion writing. In Unit 4, From  Scenes to Seriesyou’ll lead your first graders into writing realistic Fiction pieces

Writers Workshop Grade 2 Unit 2 Lab Reports and Science Books Lesson Plan Bundle

This lesson plan bundle guides you through all three Bends I to III of Unit 2, Sessions 1 to 19. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, recommended Mentor Texts, and Science Experiments needed.

   The aim of this unit is to teach students more about information writing and, specifically, about the kinds of information writing that scientists are apt to do. During mini-lessons and small groups students are taught not only about informational writing but, about force and motion, and about the scientific method. This unit illuminates the work of being an information writer. Students will write informative / explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic.  They will use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.

Writers Workshop Grade 2 Unit 3 Writing About Reading Lesson Plan Bundle

This lesson plan bundle guides you through all three Bends I to III of Unit 3, Writing About Reading ,Sessions 1 to 19. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, recommended Mentor Texts, and Science Experiments needed.

     This unit is designed to help students learn to state clear opinions and to support these ideas with evidence. Students will learn to write about beloved books in ways that persuade others to love them as much as they do. Students will learn to think deeply about characters, favorite scenes, illustrations and lessons learned. By engaging in persuasive letter writing students will move towards an essay format toward the final unit's celebration.

Writers Workshop Grade 2 Unit 4, Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages

This lesson plan bundle guides you through all three Bends I to III of Unit 4, writing about poetry, Sessions 1 to 17. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended mentor poems.

     This writing unit is designed to introduce students to poetry writing. There are three bends to this this unit. The first bend, focuses on seeing with poets’ eyes, listening for line breaks, and generating ideas. In the second bend, students will experiment with language and sound to create meaning in their poetry. They will learn different craft moves from authors of poetry. Students think about their word choice and how this conveys the message of their poetry. In the third bend of this unit, students will focus on trying many different poem structures, revising, and editing their poems.

Writers Workshop Grade 2, Unit 1 Lessons From the Masters: Improving Narrative Writing Lesson Plan Bundle

This lesson plan bundle guides you through all three Bends I to III of Unit 1, Sessions 1 to 19. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.

In this unit of study, you’ll build on your students’ prior knowledge and will continue with their small moment stories by brainstorming topic choices, planning/rehearsing their stories, sketching, and writing with emphasis on editing and revising too. The students will continue adding to their repertoire by studying the craft of an author(s) and incorporate these craft moves into their own writing. Their stories will recount well-elaborated events, including details, thoughts, actions, feelings, and providing a sense of closure. To do this work, students will look closely at the work of published writers and learn to let that writer function as a mentor noticing the author’s craftsmanship and thinking.

Writers Workshop Grade 3 Unit 1 Crafting True StoriesLesson Plans

     Unit 1, Crafting True Storiesunit 2013 edition. These lesson plans guide you through Bends I to IV, Sessions 1 to 20. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a monthly calendar, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.

      In this unit of study, you’ll build on your students’ knowledge of the narrative writing process as they work to plan, draft, revise and edit their true stories from their lives .The unit launches the third grade year with these goals in mind: To become familiar with the routines and expectations of the workshop model as well as engage in writing to build stamina and independence. Writers will be beginning their Writer's Notebook, collecting entries, and selecting and developing seed ideas. They will demonstrate their writing stamina and proficiency through their narrative writing and improve the quality of narrative writing and improve the quality of writing as writers. Students will practice how to progress with independence through the writing process while working on early personal narratives. They will learn to monitor their growth as writers by utilizing checklists and rubrics.

     Writers Workshop If Then Unit Show and Tell: From Labels to Pattern Books, Kindergarten, 2018 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through all Bends I to III, Sessions 1 to 19. The lesson plans include all components of the lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards and Anchor Charts.

       This unit teaches students to plan and tell about their Show and Tell. They will put their ideas on paper by drawing, labeling, and to stretch out words to write even more sounds. They will write and add more details to pictures and stories as they continue to write and edit their writing.  This unit will transform kindergartners into inventive spellers, giving them the tools and strategies they need to approximate the high frequency words that are most meaningful for them in their own writing. The unit celebrates invented spellings as kids develop foundational skills, knowing that your front-and-center goal will be to persuade your kids that they can write and that they too can be members of the writing community.  

Revving Up Writing Muscles, An If...Then Mini-Unit for Grade 2 Lesson Plans.

     Revving Up Writing Muscles, 2018 is a new and abbreviated If Then unit. These lesson plans guide you through Bends I and II with , Sessions 1 to 10. The lesson plans include all components of the Mini-lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, Share, and Anchor Charts. The product includes a monthly calendar, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.

      In this unit of study, you’ll build on your students’ knowledge of the narrative writing process as they work to plan, draft, revise and edit small moment stories from their lives The unit launches the second grade year with two main goals in mind: first, to reinforce the skills and strategies students have already learned in order to write with focus and detail; and second, to get students to write with greater meaning and craft through the guidance of mentor texts.

Writers Workshop Unit 1: Launching the Writers Workshop, Kindergarten, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through all four Bends I to IV of Unit 1, Sessions 1 to 19. The lesson plans include all components of the lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, and Common Core State Standards.

    In Unit 1, Launching Writers Workshop. The students will be introduced to the concept We Are All Writers and develop routines for daily Writers Workshop. This unit teaches students to plan and tell stories across pages. Throughout the unit the students will put their ideas on paper with pictures and words. They will learn to stretch out words to write even more sounds. The students will write Teaching Books and True Stories. They will add more details to pictures and stories as they continue to write and edit their writing.

Lucy Calkins, Writers Workshop Unit 2 Writing for Readers, Kindergarten Level, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through Bend I of Unit 2, Sessions 1 to 5.  The lesson plans include all components of the lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards and On Demand Narrative Task. Also included are the anchor charts and work samples to go with each lesson.

Lucy Calkins, Writers Workshop Unit 2 Writing for Readers, Kindergarten Level, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through Bend ll of Unit 2, Sessions 6 to 12.  The lesson plans include all components of the lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards and On Demand Narrative Task. Also included are the anchor charts and work samples to go with each lesson

Lucy Calkins, Writers Workshop Unit 2 Writing for Readers, Kindergarten Level, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through Bend llI of Unit 2, Sessions 13 to 16.  The lesson plans include all components of the lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards and On Demand Narrative Task. Also included are the anchor charts and work samples to go with each lesson.

Lucy Calkins, Writers Workshop Unit 2 Writing for Readers, Kindergarten Level, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through Bend IV of Unit 2, Sessions 17 to 20. The lesson plans include all components of the lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards ,Unit Celebration Invitation and Bulletin Board Idea

Writers Workshop Unit 4 Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change, Kindergarten, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through all four Bends I to III of Unit 4, Sessions 1 to 19. Students will look at the world in a new way:  how could they make things better?  Students will make lists, signs, and petitions, using words and pictures.  Students will try to convince an audience of their opinion.  The lesson plan bundle includes all components of the mini- lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, Unit Celebration Invitation, and Ideas.

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Writers Workshop, Grade 2 ,Units 1–4 Yearly Lesson Plan Bundle with Bonus Unit

      Writers Workshop Units 1 to 4: second grade, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through all four Units of study throughout the year and the new bonus unit 2019. The lesson plan bundle includes all components of the mini- lessons: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, Unit Celebration Invitation, and Ideas.

   This yearly bundle is sent in a zip file with a file for each unit. Each unit is complete and has the lesson plans for all the sessions.

The following is a list of units included in the yearly bundle:

Bonus Unit, Revving Up Writing Muscles Lesson Plans 2018 edition

Unit 1 Lessons From the Masters: Improving Narrative Writing

Unit 2 Lab Reports and Science Books

Unit 3 Writing About Reading

Unit 4, Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages

Writers Workshop, Grade 3, Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, Unit Lesson Plans

   This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to IV and all sessions 1- 23 of Unit 3, Changing the World, Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials, 2013 edition. The lesson plans outline all components of the Mini-lessons included in the unit: Connection, Teaching point, Teaching, Active Engagement, link, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Conferring, and Share. The product includes a unit plan, a 30 day monthly calendar, essential questions, enduring understanding, objectives, Common Core State Standards, and recommended Mentor Texts.

     This unit is designed to help students learn to state clear opinions and to support these ideas with evidence.  Students learn to introduce topics, support these by listing reasons, using transition words to connect the various parts of their opinion writing and to conclude. This unit moves writers from writing opinion speeches to forming cause groups to support various causes. Across the unit, there is a focus on considering audience and considering word choice in light of audience.

The new TCRWP 2013 edition of Writer's Workshop Unit 3, Shaping Texts: From Essay and Narrative to Memoir. The students will discover memoir writing and reflect on small and big ideas in writing about theories. This complete and comprehensive Writer’s Workshop Unit Bundle includes everything you need to present lessons to students and can be used as a slide presentation as well as detailed lesson plans! The bundle includes: Unit overview calendar with daily I can statements, Essential Questions and Table of Contents. Each lesson includes: CCSS, Connection, Mini lesson/Teaching Points, Active Engagement, Linking section, Conferring and Small Group Instruction, Mid-Workshop Teaching, Share / Assessment,  Homework, Anchor Charts, text fig./student examples, and text sets when needed. Includes all three bends of 19 sessions and concludes with Writer’s Celebration Suggestions, invitation, and activity. This bundle is a true time saver. It will save you hours of planning and preparation. Enjoy your Writers Workshop unit bundle!

Writers Workshop, Unit Lesson Plans, Grade 3, Unit 4, Once Upon a Time, Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales

    This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to III and all sessions 1- 20 of Unit 4, Once Upon a Time: Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales, 2013 edition. The lesson plans outline all components of the Mini-lessons included in the unit: 

Writer’s Workshop Supplemental Writing Unit, Grade 2-3, Daily Writing Skills 

This writer’s workshop model supplemental writing unit is designed to develop  daily writing skills we use in everyday writing  for grades 2-3. There are 10 mini-lessons in this Daily Writing Skills  Unit that build strong life skills.  The lessons in the  unit start out with students creating a To-Do List and writing a friendly letter. The students learn to write greeting cards and invitations as well as planning and organizing information for a party. The students develop information and learn how to: write and send postcards, take a message, writing emails ,  filling out forms, planning a budget, and concludes with learning all about surveys.

 This unit includes two Google slides documents. There is 72  teaching slides and  37 pages  in the digital student edition writing notebook  with a  detailed writing activity for each lesson in the unit. 

The student notebook can be sent through the Google Classroom as one writing notebook or you can send each lesson separate.  The unit is broken down into a one month unit meeting two to three times a week. A total of 10 lessons. 

The product will include a PDF file with two google links that will ask you to make your own copy and rename your file. 

Writing Fairy Tales Smartboard Activityis a Smart Notebook file created to enhance your unit study on Fairy Tales. This activity has 10 slides to help you write and review characteristics of a fairy tale. There are four different template backgrounds to choose from and eight fairy tale characters to drag, drop, copy and paste. You can use this activity as a whole group or literacy center on your laptop or Ipad along with Smart Notebook software. You can print the fairy tales and combine them into a class book or display them onto your bulletin board.