English Language Arts Grade 1 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Writing (1.W)

Students will learn to write for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences using appropriate grammar/conventions, syntax, and style.

Standard 1.W.3:

Write narrative pieces that retell two or more events. Provide details regarding the events using temporal words in sequential order and provide a concluding statement.

• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
  A brief guide to engaging students in narrative writing by having them program robots to act out their stories.
• Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
  Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
• Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
  Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
• Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
  Stories and poems that have a familiar structure can create a supportive context for learning about the writing process, building students' background knowledge, and scaffolding their creation of original stories. In this lesson for students in second or late first grade, teachers help students explore the concepts of beginning, middle, and ending by reading a variety of stories and charting the events on storyboards. As they retell the stories, students are encouraged to make use of sequencing words (first, so, then, next, after that, finally). A read-aloud of Once Upon a Golden Apple by Jean Little and Maggie De Vries introduces a discussion of the choices made by an author in constructing a plot. Starting with prewriting questions and a storyboard, students construct original stories, progressing from shared writing to guided writing; independent writing is also encouraged.

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