First Grade and Kindergarten Writing Curriculum and Lessons Unit Bundle

Are you looking for a comprehensive writing curriculum for your kindergarten or first grade classroom? These writing curriculum units go beyond your typical writers workshop lessons. Each day students apply the explicit writing lessons in their own writing practice activities. These writing units align with the Science of Writing. Students apply what they know about letter/sound relationships, grammar, and punctuation when crafting their writing pieces. Writing Through the Year™ was created by two kindergarten teachers with over 20 years of classroom experience, and it will save you hours each month in writing lesson plans. Each writing lesson has been classroom-tested and student-approved.

Students will be encouraged and guided as they learn to use illustrations and/or words to express themselves as writers. Every student can be successful, even those who do not know any letter sounds.

This curriculum is Common Core State Standards (all of these standards can easily be correlated to your State Standards) and TEKS aligned. You will find standards correlation guide in the product preview.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN EACH WRITING UNIT:

• Writing lessons framework guide
• Management ideas
• Monthly overview of writing instruction
• CC Standards for kindergarten
• CC Standards for first-grade writing
• Writing rubrics: kindergarten writing rubric and first-grade writing rubric
• Kindergarten writing goals chart and first-grade writing goals chart
• Writing mentor text list for unit of study
• Detailed daily writing lesson plans that cover 20 days of instruction
• Anchor charts that support your writers during your writing lessons
• Variety of student writing paper templates
• Additional writing forms
• Parent communication letter that is specific to the writing unit. The parent letter explains the unit focus.

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These writing lessons will fit perfectly in your kindergarten or first-grade classroom.

2ND GRADE IS NOW AVAILABLE!

• Writing Through the Year™: 2nd Grade Writers Workshop Curriculum.

CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 1

Unit One is the first unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching as you launch this writing program with your kindergarten or first-grade students. These writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Establishing writing routines
• Introducing writing folders
• Working on writing stamina
• Reading like a writer
• Using classroom resources during writing time
• Writing more while maintaining a writing focus
• Generating writing ideas

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 2

Unit Two is the second unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching of narrative writing to your kindergarten or first-grade students. Additionally, this unit will provide instruction to move students to write across pages! Yes, they will be writing books! These narrative writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Exploring narrative stories
• Making books
• Introducing the story hand
• Stretching your writing over several pages
• Going back and re-reading (edit and revise) as you write
• How to stretch out sounds as you write
• Pre-writing by practicing your story orally first with your partner
• Drawing from various perspectives
• Adding speech bubbles to your writing
• How do I know when my writing is done?

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 3

Unit Three is the third unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching of How-To writing to your kindergarten or first-grade students. These procedural writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Exploring procedural (How-to) texts
• General ideas list for procedural (How-to) writing
• Including essential steps in your procedural (How-to) writing
• Making your illustrations and writing clear
• Labeling the pictures in your writing to add clarity.
• Writers included spaces between their words
• Creating a procedural (How-to) materials list
• Exploring recipes
• Spelling strategies for longer words

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 4

Unit Four is the fourth unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching of persuasive text writing to your kindergarten or first-grade students. These compelling writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Exploring persuasive writing
• Different types of persuasive writing
• Generate ideas list for persuasive writing
• Writing opinion and recommendations
• Keeping spaces together for words, but putting spaces between words
• Writing a letter
• Adding your writer's voice
• Strategies for spelling longer words
• Concepts about print and writing conventions

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 5

Unit five is the fifth unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching of informational text writing to your kindergarten or first-grade students. These nonfiction writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Informational text writing genre introduction
• Generate ideas list for informational texts
• Do you have enough to say in your nonfiction writing
• Studying the work of other informational mentor text authors
• What is essential to include in your informational text.
• Looking at text features of informational texts
• Looking at text features of informational texts: Comparisons
• Looking at text features of informational texts: Categories
• Looking at text features of informational texts: Table of contents
• Looking at text features of informational texts: Adding labels to tell more
• Adding closure to your writing

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 6

Unit Six is the sixth unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching of narrative small moments to your kindergarten or first-grade students. These small moment writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Retelling an event and noticing what is important in small moment writing
• Creating an ideas list for small moment writing
• Include your feelings in small moment writing
• Using thought bubbles in small moment writing
• Make your words easy to read in your writing piece
• Use the writing rubric to focus your partner discussion
• Using words, we already know to spell new words during writing time
• Adding more details to our writing: Using our sense of touch
• Adding more details to our writing: Using our sense of sound
• Adding more details to our writing: Using our sense of smell
• Ending your writing well, creating a strong sense of closure

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 7

Unit Seven is the seventh unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing mini-lessons that will guide your teaching of fictional text writing to your kindergarten or first-grade students. These fictional narrative writing mini-lessons will support your students right where they are.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Looking at fiction writing as a genre
• Generating ideas list for fiction writing
• Exploring characters in fictional writing
• Examining the setting when writing fiction
• Pre-plan writing using the story hand
• Including a problem and solution in writing
• Create a strong beginning in writing
• Spelling strategies
• Include dialogue in your writing
• Reread, revise, and edit
• A look at writing conventions: Punctuation

Writing Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Unit 8

This is the eighth unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. It is a time for students to reflect on their growth as a writer and to make writing plans for their future.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Reflecting on writing growth
• Making plans for future writing

Writers Workshop Curriculum K-1 | Writing Through the Year™ Opinions

Opinion Writing is a unique unit in this comprehensive writing curriculum. In this unit, you will find a series of writing activities that will guide your teaching of opinion writing to your kindergarten or first-grade students. These opinion writing activities will support your students right where they are. The writing prompts can be used throughout the year and do not need to be taught sequentially.

SOME OF THE UNIT-SPECIFIC MINI-LESSONS INCLUDE:

• Over 15 writing prompts and response pages for opinion writing
• Management ideas
• CC Standards for kindergarten
• CC Standards for first-grade writing
• Writing rubrics: kindergarten writing rubric and first-grade writing rubric
• Anchor charts that support your writers during your opinion writing lessons

BONUS! This bundle also includes all of our writing charts for grades k-2 in one file!

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