Writing

Lesson Plans

Implementing the Writing Process: This link takes you to the ReadWriteThink website and offers background information on the writing process, as well as many lesson plans for various grades.

Helping Young Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic: This link takes you to the ReadWriteThink website and offers the strategy of using a timeline to help young authors focus on a specific moment in time to write about.

Creating Problem Solving with Ezra Jack Keats: This link takes you to a unit on the ReadWriteThink website. This interactive unit focuses on problem-solution through multiple read alouds from the author Ezra Jack Keats. As a culminating project, students choose their own characters, define a problem and a solution appropriate for their characters, and then write their own problem-solving stories.

Interactive Writing Tools:

Story Map Interactive: This link takes you to the Story Map Interactive page on the ReadWriteThink website. The Story Map interactive includes a set of graphic organizers designed to assist teachers and students in prewriting and postreading activities.

Magnetic Poetry Kit: This tool offers a selection of words and a blank space where students can arrange them to create poetry. If the child gets stuck, then they can ask for new words to be added in the list. The final piece of poetry can be shared via email!