Writers Workshop Gr 1 Unit 4 ,From Scenes to Series Lesson Plan Bundle

  Writers Workshop Grade 1 Unit 4: From Scenes to Series, Writing Fiction. ( 2013 edition).  This lesson plan bundle guides you through bends I to IV of Unit 4, 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.

  In Unit 4 you’ll lead your first graders into writing realistic Fiction pieces. In the first two bends of the unit, you will lead your students, step by step, through the process of creating pretend characters, giving that character adventures in more than one booklet, elaborating and revising across books and, finally, creating a “boxed set” of their stories.

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.