W.1 Lesson Plans
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1
:"Writing"
These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Classroom Animal Alphabet Book
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Classroom Animal Alphabet Book
This lesson allows students to nourish their inner writers and artists by creating catchy sentences and decorating alphabet letters.
Kindergarten
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Point of View Frenzy
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Point of View Frenzy
Explore a day in the life of a pencil! Your students will practice different points of view by thinking outside the box and writing as though they are something else.
1st Grade
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One Plus One Equals New
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One Plus One Equals New
Your class will need to put their creativity caps on for this lesson where they will create their own creature and write a story about its life.
1st Grade
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All About Sharks!
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All About Sharks!
Do your students live for Shark Week? Help them prepare with this lesson that teaches them about all the different kinds of sharks and has them color and create their own sea!
Kindergarten
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Writing From the Heart
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Writing From the Heart
This lesson will inspire your students to focus on the people, pets, things, places, and ideas that mean the most to them! Your students will practice writing in this heartfelt lesson.
1st Grade
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New Word Writing
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New Word Writing
Help your first graders learn word formation with this lesson that has them create a new word and write a story about it.
1st Grade
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Let's Write Right Now
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Let's Write Right Now
A good writer doesn't leave his readers waiting. Help your young authors pen some descriptive sentences and narrative paragraphs right now with this teacher-approved lesson.
1st Grade
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Craft Stick Story Elements
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Craft Stick Story Elements
This comprehensive overview of story elements will definitely leave students with a better understanding of author's purpose, character traits, sequence, and main idea. It features the acclaimed Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus.
1st Grade
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Symbols, Symbols All Around!
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Symbols, Symbols All Around!
Where can we find United States symbols? In this lesson, students will not only learn about the familiar United States symbols, but also create a flag full of symbols that represents who they are and what they enjoy.
1st Grade
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Exploring Nature
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Exploring Nature
Allow students to make sense of the world through hands-on activities and play. This movement-centered lesson will let your students explore parts of nature that make up our great Earth.
1st Grade
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My Family: Writing Practice
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My Family: Writing Practice
Family first! This lesson encourages students to think about families and how diverse families can be.
Preschool
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Opinion Writers!
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Opinion Writers!
Write on! Give your students the chance to express themselves with this engaging lesson. Your class will write expressive opinion essays to develop cognitive awareness.
1st Grade
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What Happens Next?
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What Happens Next?
Featuring Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch, this creative writing lesson gives students the chance to turn themselves into the main characters of emotion-packed short stories.
1st Grade
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Leaf Art Animals
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Leaf Art Animals
Help your class' creativity blossom with this lesson that has them make unique animals out of leaves and write about them.
1st Grade
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Extra, Extra! Read All About It
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Extra, Extra! Read All About It
Students will learn to structure their written arguments as they create their own class paper full of opinion editorial pieces in this fun, real-world driven lesson. Step right up and write all about it!
1st Grade
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Class Pets
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Class Pets
Have your students been begging for a class pet? Combine opinion letter writing with science as your students try to convince you to get the PERFECT class pet.
1st Grade
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Thumbs Up or Down?
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Thumbs Up or Down?
Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name, and students will have a blast writing persuasive sentences about her. This quirky lesson is sure to please young, creative minds.
Kindergarten
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Beginning Writing: All About Me
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Beginning Writing: All About Me
This lesson will take the fear out of writing by allowing your students to write about what makes them happy. It provides a simple way to give young writers creative freedom.
1st Grade
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Writing a Letter is Easy as 1, 2, 3!
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Writing a Letter is Easy as 1, 2, 3!
When did letter writing become a thing of the past? Bring back this tried and true method of communication with a lesson that's both fun and teacher-approved. Students will love writing their own letters to their friends.
1st Grade
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Give the Planet a Hand!
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Give the Planet a Hand!
This lesson, perfect for first and second grade learners, will help kids become environmental activists as they think of ways to help the Earth! First, students will brainstorm examples of what it means to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Next, students will partake in a creative art project where they trace their hands and think of way ways they can give the planet a hand. This engaging activity integrates creative writing skills and Earth science.
1st Grade
Science
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How and Why Stories
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How and Why Stories
In this lesson, students have a great time using their imaginations to collaborate and create their own story following the "how and why" style of common folktales.
1st Grade
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Super Sequencing!
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Super Sequencing!
Teach your students about sequencing with this creative language arts lesson. After putting events in order and drawing their own stories, kids will be pros at using the words "first," "next," "then," and "last."
1st Grade
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Helpers in Our School Community
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Helpers in Our School Community
Who is who in your school community? In this lesson, students will learn about the people who work at their school and how everyone helps each other to keep the school running safely.
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Analyzing Text Features
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Analyzing Text Features
Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books.
1st Grade
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It’s Okay to Argue
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It’s Okay to Argue
We don’t want arguments in the classroom, right? Actually arguments aren’t all bad! In this lesson, students learn to write argumentative essays.
1st Grade
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First Grade Journals
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First Grade Journals
Read aloud a hilarious diary written from the perspective of a spider, then use the story to launch your first grade journal writing. Students will love creating their very own writing journals.
1st Grade
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Which Way Can We Go?
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Which Way Can We Go?
Look all around! In this lesson, students will use real-life examples and an interactive mapping activity to identify the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west.
1st Grade
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How to Do School
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How to Do School
Every young child (and adult!) loves being an expert in something. By helping students realize that they are experts in many areas, their confidence and writing will expand by leaps and bounds.
1st Grade
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BAM! POW! Comic Strip Writing
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BAM! POW! Comic Strip Writing
Students love comic books! Channel their excitement for this fun genre and get their creative writing juices flowing. By writing their own comic strips, students will be practicing composing, sequencing, and using dialogue.
1st Grade
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Do First Grade Opinions Matter?
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Do First Grade Opinions Matter?
Do your students respect their peers' opinions? This lesson teaches first graders that their opinions matter by encouraging them to write out opinions and back them up with reasons.
1st Grade
Social studies
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