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- Lesson Plans
- Comic Strip Writing Prompts
3-5
Use comic strips to inspire young writers. (PDF) Source: Comic Strip Grammar
- Develop Powers of Persuasion
6-8
Children must create a persuasive public service announcement that focuses on seat belt safety for teens.
- Gigantic Learning with Giants
3-5
Get colossally creative with these fun, brain-stretching fairytale activities.
- Keeping the Ball in Play: Moving Past Writer's Block
3-5, 6-8
Suggestions in this lesson show students steps to start writing again when facing writer's block. (PDF file) Source: Ready-to-Go Writing Lessons That Teach Key Strategies
- Puzzled Over Paragraphs?
3-5
A+ activities to help kids master the building blocks of great writing.
- Spotlight Strong Verbs on Word Walls
3-5, 6-8
Use books that use strong verbs and build a word wall to show how to use strong verbs in writing. (PDF) Source: Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students' Writing
- Stories of Our Lives!
Early Childhood
Invite children to write and illustrate their own books and investigate personal experiences.
- The Writing Edge! Research Reports
6-8
Motivate and inspire your students to become better writers as they learn lifelong research skills.
- Unit Plan: Blast from the Past Travel Guides
6-8
Become an expert on Ancient Roman civilization by creating travel brochures.
- Unit Plan: Interdependence: A Colonial Example
3-5
Make your classroom a small town in Colonial America where each student takes on the identity of a colonist.
- Unit Plan: Journal Writing from a Graphic Timeline
6-8
The Graphic Timeline is a creative way to show who you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going. After completing the timeline, the entries are used to prompt journal writing.
- Unit Plan: Let's Learn About Fire Safety!
K-2
First graders learn about firefighters and fire safety by reading books, using technology, creating a fun, shape book, and experiencing a field trip to the fire station.
- Unit Plan: Letter Writing
6-8
Compose letters to book authors, officials of organizations, and other people.
- Unit Plan: Once Upon a Genre
3-5
Respond to fractured fairy tales by writing in many styles, including a persuasive essay, a personal narrative, a letter of complaint, an advertisement, and even a resume.
- Unit Plan: Writing an Autobiography
6-8
Set up high school students for writing success by providing a variety of writing assignments that focus on their expertise: being a teenager.
- Unit Plan: Writing Autobiographies
6-8
Show children that they are the experts when it comes to the genre of autobiographical writing.
- Word Splash
3-5
Dive in to learning with these fun, dynamic and easy-to-use lessons that build vocabulary and writing skills.
- Writers' Workshop: Fiction
3-5, 6-8
Fiction-writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
- Writers' Workshop: Nonfiction
3-5, 6-8
Nonfiction writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative
- Writers' Workshop: Plays
3-5, 6-8
Playwriting lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
- Writing and Scholarship Planning for College-Bound Students
6-8
Use expository and persuasive writing skills and master basic principles of financial management.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Myths, Folktales and Fairytales Teacher's Guide
A great resource for learning about writing in these genres.
- Write It Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the online activity that allows students to find their voice, develop their craft, and publish their writing online.
- Writing With Writers Teacher's Guide
Teacher's guide for the Writing with Writers workshops.
- Writing Workshops Teacher's Guide
A Guide for the online writing workshops
- Reproducibles
- Comparing Myths With Legends
3-5, 6-8
Reproducible pages help kids discover the difference between myths and legends. (PDF) Source: Teaching Genre: Myths and Legends
- Pre-Writing Exercises for Writing Biographies
3-5, 6-8
Use this lesson plan to help your students write more effective biographies. (PDF) Source: Teaching Genre: Biography
- Predictions: Technology of the Future
3-5, 6-8
Science fiction is full of new inventions that have good and bad sides. (PDF) Source: Teaching Genre: Science Fiction
- The Diary of Anne Frank Study Questions
3-5, 6-8
These reproducibles will help you teach The Diary of Anne Frank. (PDF) Source: Teaching Genre: Journals & Diaries
- Writing Humorous Fiction Setting Exercise
3-5, 6-8
Use these reproducibles to help plan setting, write a draft, and run a conference to edit it. (PDF) Source: Teaching Genre: Humorous Fiction
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