W.K Lesson Plans
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K
:"Writing"
        
        These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
Lesson Plans
                        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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                        We Love Bees!
                    
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                We Love Bees!
            
            
            
                Students will be buzzing as they write and illustrate information about bees.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        A Day at the Zoo
                    
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                A Day at the Zoo
            
            
            
                Your class will have so much fun reading books about the zoo and sharing reactions about the story that your they will be itching for a class field trip to the zoo!            
            
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                        Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details
                    
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                Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details
            
            
            
                In this lesson, your students will explore reading with technology with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Students will use a graphic organizer to reflect on this story.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Details! Details! Details!
                    
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                Details! Details! Details!
            
            
            
                Do your students lack color and details in illustrations? Are you tired of gazing at a blank piece of white paper? Well... no more! Use the following lesson to turn your students into detailed illustrators.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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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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                        We Write About Dinosaurs
                    
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                We Write About Dinosaurs
            
            
            
                This little dinosaur … helped build vocabulary skills! Introduce your students to writing with this fun class project using a familiar childhood poem. Your class will write their own verses to create a class book.            
            
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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.            
            
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                        Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten
                    
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                Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten
            
            
            
                Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice.            
            
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                        Make it Even Better!
                    
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                Make it Even Better!
            
            
            
                Help your students become expert editors as they go back and make their writing even better.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Sequence It
                    
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                Sequence It
            
            
            
                Your students will be able to sequence the events in a story after this fun-filled lesson about insects!            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Supporting Details
                    
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                Supporting Details
            
            
            
                Your students will try their best to convince their school principal that they need more recess during this letter writing lesson.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Cooking Up a How-To Story
                    
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                Cooking Up a How-To Story
            
            
            
                Cooking up a delicious Peanut Butter and Jelly is as simple as writing a how-to story in this lesson designed to teach students the different parts of a how-to story. Everyone will walk away with their heads and tummies filled!             
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Love Lists for Valentine's Day
                    
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                Love Lists for Valentine's Day
            
            
            
                How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. In this Valentine's Day lesson, students will practice using invented spelling to write a love list for someone titled "10 Things I Love About You."            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Spring Senses Poem
                    
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                Spring Senses Poem
            
            
            
                Spring is here! You can feel it, hear it, smell it, taste it, and see it! In this spring lesson plan, students will create a spring poem using their five senses.            
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                        What’s the Season?
                    
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                What’s the Season?
            
            
            
                What makes winter so special? What about spring, summer, and fall? In this lesson students will get to think all about what happens in each of the four seasons!            
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                        Turn Your Name Into Art
                    
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                Turn Your Name Into Art
            
            
            
                This lesson has it all! Uppercase and lowercase letters, reading and writing names, and best of all... art! This lesson will encourage your students to practice writing skills as they practice using capital letters when writing names.            
            
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                        My Chinese Zodiac Animal
                    
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                My Chinese Zodiac Animal
            
            
            
                Are you similar to your Chinese zodiac animal? In this lesson, your students will learn about their zodiac animal and write about an example from their life that captures a time when they displayed traits similar to their zodiac animal.             
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Five Senses Weather
                    
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                Five Senses Weather
            
            
            
                This science and writing inspired lesson combines the five senses with weather predictions! Kindergarten students will love practicing their observation skills as they imagine tomorrow’s weather.            
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                        Animal Habitats
                    
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                Animal Habitats
            
            
            
                Students will love thinking about lots of interesting animal homes and the different types of animals who live in each one!            
            
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                        “I Am Thankful For…”
                    
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                “I Am Thankful For…”
            
            
            
                Finding reasons to be grateful is a big part of the Thanksgiving season. Students won’t forget these reasons once they write them down!
            
            
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                        My Five Senses Portrait
                    
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                My Five Senses Portrait
            
            
            
                This five senses art and writing lesson will give your students an up close and personal look at the five senses and themselves.            
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                        All About Me! Things I Like
                    
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                All About Me! Things I Like
            
            
            
                I like to run, play, and dance! In this lesson, students will learn how to express themselves and write simple sentences. Your class will gain important social skills by interacting with their peers during these activities.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        I Like Sentences
                    
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                I Like Sentences
            
            
            
                Your students will use sight words and drawings to practice their writing skills as they become experts at writing sentences.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Animal Poetry
                    
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                Animal Poetry
            
            
            
                Get excited about poetry! This lesson will encourage your students to practice their writing skills as they write their very own list poems about animals.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Fill That Page
                    
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                Fill That Page
            
            
            
                Your students will love using real life experiences while developing their writing skills in this fun lesson.            
            
                                                            Kindergarten                                                    
                                                
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                        Wish Lists for Santa
                    
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                Wish Lists for Santa
            
            
            
                Have you been naughty or nice this year? It’s time to find out! In this writing lesson, students will practice using invented spelling to write Christmas wish lists to Santa.            
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                        Celebrating Black History Month with the Sounds of African-American Music: Jazz and Hip-Hop
                    
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                Celebrating Black History Month with the Sounds of African-American Music: Jazz and Hip-Hop
            
            
            
                What do like to groove to? Bebop or hip-hop? In this Black History Month lesson plan, students will listen to and learn about two music genres heavily influenced by African-Americans. Then they will write about which genre they prefer.            
            
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                        Write Me a Story
                    
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                Write Me a Story
            
            
            
                We all love to tell stories, but a good story is clearly organized. In this lesson students will learn how to use transition words and strong endings when writing narratives.             
            
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                        Plan a Fairy Tale
                    
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                Plan a Fairy Tale
            
            
            
                Use a well-loved fairy tale to inspire your kindergarten students to plan out their very own fairy tale stories.            
            
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