1. Pre-write
2. Draft
3. Revise
4. Edit
5. Publish

Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
This lesson supports first-grade students in learning about audience. Through interactive writing, students work together to create a genuine invitation letter for a group of their peers.

The Seven-Day Adventure
Students work in teams to write a storybook.

Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
This lesson involves students in two prewriting activities, one on brainstorming ideas using story maps, and one on creating beginnings of stories, and two collaborative-writing activities where they draft an "oversized" story on chart paper.

Collaborative Stories 2: Revising
Students engage in a whole-group revising process, using a story which has been written collaboratively by having each student add a sentence at a time.

Telling A Story About Me
Drawing inspiration from personal photographs, students write and publish autobiographies to share with the class and their families.

Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
In this lesson, students construct timelines as a way of choosing and focusing on a writing topic. Afterward, each student selects an event from the timeline, draws an illustration to further explore his or her thoughts, writes about the event in detail, and shares and confers during revisions.

The Very Hungry Teacher:
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle students will use the writing process to write their own version of a Very Hungry story. They will use a flow map for pre-writing. Students will write a rough draft that will be revised and edited with a partner and a teacher.

Is That A Bird In Your Hat?
After learning about adaptations animals need for survival, students imagine they find an injured bird. They create a clay bird and nest to stimulate creative writing. The lesson includes an integrated week-long art, science, and writing activity.

Johnny Appleseed Pop Ups
After hearing the story of Johnny Appleseed, students use the writing process to recount details from the book to create their own pop-up book about his life.
 

6+1 Writing Site: NW Regional Educational Laboratory

Rubrics and Evaluation Resources: Many different forms for evaluation

Discover Writing: Here you will find a number of teaching aids, including a rich archive of lesson plans designed to engage your students.

The Writing Process:  A good visual for the writing process

Using a Writing Workshop:  This is a description of how to facilitate the writing workshop in your classroom.
 

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