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.4:

Participate in shared research and writing projects.

• Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
  Shadows, shadows, everywhere! In this lesson, students read fiction, informational text, and poetry about shadows to extend their knowledge of the concept before casting their own shadow poetry.
• 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.
• Poetry Suitcase
  Students in K-5 enjoy this lesson during their "Library Time" every year during the month of April, which is National Poetry Month.
• 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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