About this Project
What is this project? What are the key aspects to consider? Click the button link below for the answers to these questions about my first grade writing curriculum.
Ideal Floor Plan
A floor plan can make or break a classroom's overall function. That is why it is one of the first steps in building your classroom structure. It allows you to plan the interactions and focus of the classroom. Just click the button link below for more information on my ideal floor plan.
Writer's Workshop
What is Writer's Workshop? Click the button link below for some more information about what writer's workshop is.
One of the toughest parts of writing time within class is understanding and finding a way to effectively break up the time for the students to work on their writing. Below is the button link to my plan for how to split up writing time within the class time.
Starting Writer's workshop can be one of the hardest aspects when starting this program. Student plenty of times have not been really exposed to a classroom set up like writer's workshop so it is important to transition your students through a series of steps. Click the button link below for my plan to start this program.
Click the button link below for the rules I would want in this writer's workshop for this first grade writing curriculum.
Click the button link below for the materials I would have for the students at each stage of the writing process.
Schedule, and Sample Unit lesson plan
The first stage in creating the yearly plan for student writing is to first look at what areas of writing and learning should be taught in the different times of the year. Below is the button link to the tentative schedule I have set for my classroom with some ideas of activities and events to do with the students for these areas.
The next stage is creating lesson plans based on the genres or writing and the traits of writing. Click the button link below for a sample of a unit plan that could be done in this situation for ideas toward the beginning of the year.
Evaluating Writing
Click the button link below for the forms and plan I have for evaluating student writing in this curriculum plan.
Record Keeping
Click the button link below for resources that will help me keep records on my students writing as well as my students to keep records of their writing.
Writing Smamples
Click the button link below for some writing samples that could be seen in first grade for the different genres of writing.
References
Click the button link below for the resources that I used to create this writing curriculum.