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Kickstart your Writer's Workshop with these ready-to-print Writing Lessons for the Beginning of the Year! Tailored for 1st and 2nd graders, these engaging lessons help build foundational writing skills and inspire young writers.
Kickstart your Writer’s Workshop with these ready-to-print Writing Lessons for the Beginning of the Year! Tailored for 1st and 2nd graders, these engaging lessons help build foundational writing skills and inspire young writers. The explicit writing instruction, mentor texts, and sharing writing create a strong writing structure in your classroom
My goals for the first few weeks of our writing together include…
The resources and mini-lessons in this download are intended to be pre-Writer’s Workshop in 1st grade, building a strong writing foundation for all of your students. Included in this resource…
All the materials and information you need to implement the mini-lessons (rubrics, sentence stems, student work samples, teacher prompts, etc.)
Writing Paper Templates
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pug mom –
Thank you…Great resource! Everything was as described and easy to use. The materials are well-organized, engaging, and practical for the classroom. I’m very happy with my purchase and would definitely recommend this resource to other teachers! You for creating this great product…..love it!!
Tanya J. –
Use this every year in grade one to introduce writing in our classroom.
Caitlin V. –
This was exactly what I was looking for! It is well organized and very engaging. This resource was well laid out and perfect for back to school.
Raising Rigor –
This is very easy to use and my First Graders Loved this!
Karen B. –
This will be a great review for the beginning of the year!
Lori T. –
This was a great way to get my students into writing at the beginning of the school year. I even used it as a review after Christmas. Thank you for all your hard work.
Olusina A. –
Starting Writing Workshop can be tricky, but these lessons teach kiddos the routines, expectations, and procedures of writers’ workshop, and it’s honestly perfect.
Sylvia Long –
A great tool to begin your writing lessons with a visual.
Dawn U. –
A great resource for starting the year out strong in writing
Sydney B. –
This is a great resource with so many helpful pages and a great tool to start off writing.
Primarily Playful –
These make fantastic anchor charts! We got a lot of use out of these.
Danielle S. –
What a great resource this is!! I can’t say enough! It helped my students so much!
Andean M. –
I am starting writers notebooks with my class. These easy to use lessons and examples are making for a much smoother start to purposeful free choice writing time. The kids are excited to have a place that is just theirs for writing of their choice and this resource makes it easy to ensure they feel empowered as authors.
Savvy Teaching Tips –
Easy to prep and easy to use. My students loved it!
Kristin H. –
These lessons helped me to focus on what was important at the beginning of the year to set students up for success.
Waka H. –
This was my first year teaching Grade 1 and 2. This was helpful to start my writing unit.