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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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Andrea S. –
These were some of the first structured lessons we did in 2nd grade as kids were coming back from Covid. Some had been learning at home for over a year, so we had lots of work to do! This made it manageable!
Marlee S. –
Great way to help support my student’s learning at school!
Rigoberto Lemus –
This resource has been a game charger in my classroom and has helped me implement Writer’s Workshop during the first few weeks of school.
CHIARA A. –
Fun and engaging lessons for the start of the year!
J Gifford –
Helpful to make sure you are getting in all those “need to knows” in the first few weeks!
Jacqueline S. –
I keep coming back to this resource year after year! It breaks down how to slowly build up your students to become the writers we want to see.
Veronica M. –
Although I have only used one of the pages, it was a great way to get them started on their first try at writer’s workshop.
Jessica R. –
This was a great way to start writing in my first grade classroom.
Jeb –
I don’t know…I guess I was expecting something else when I bought it. I thought there would be more included.
eah08i –
I used this resource at the beginning of the year to kick off our writing block, and it was exactly what my students needed. The lessons are well-structured, easy to follow, and developmentally appropriate—especially for students who are still building writing stamina and confidence.
Marissa N. –
This resource made starting Writer’s Workshop so smooth and stress-free! The lessons are clear, structured, and easy to follow, while still keeping students engaged and excited about writing.
Kathy S. –
Used all these mini lessons. It was a great way to start out the year and to get us ready for a great year of writing!
Jaime O. –
This product was very helpful in adding to my writing resource wall!
Maran L. –
My students have been begging to write in their journals since the first day of school, and we started with these lessons as soon as I could fit them in our schedule! My friends love our writing time, and I am so thankful to have found such a structured, easy to follow outline for implementing effective writing time. I really love having them sound things out on their own and then underline words they’re unsure of, it really encourages them to be independent and give things a try on their own!
Dominika T. –
Great teaching ideas to support beginning writers. Looking forward to using this with my students.
Vanessa E. –
This is great resource and very easy to use! I will use it next year too!