Overview

6 weeks of writing lessons to start the year off

Each of the six weekly lesson sequences  focuses on a different aspect of sentence writing construction.  Over the course of a week students draft, revise, edit, and publish perfect sentences of different types.  There is also a sequence for writing using transition words which is designed to mimic the CELDT writing test and warm up students for the task of writing to a pictorial prompt.  These lessons do not need to be run off for individual students.  Teachers can use a document camera or overhead projector to show the task and have students do their individual writing on white boards or in a notebook.  These lessons were originally designed for the Night Writer’s Project, but can easily be used for classroom mini-lessons.

 

Commands