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

Lucy Calkins, Writers Workshop Unit 2 Writing for Readers, Kindergarten Level, 2013 edition. This lesson plan bundle guides you through Bends I to IV of Unit 2, Sessions 1 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

        This unit will teach students that they can teach others how to do things.  They will determine the difference between narrative and information texts.  Students will choose activities they know how to do to write many how-to books.  They will collaborate with partners in revising their work. At the end of this unit, students will learn how to share their books with a specific audience

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.