2nd and 3rd Grade Year Long Writing Bundle | Writers Workshop

Get a full year's worth of writing lessons including narrative writing, opinion writing, and informational writing. Your 2nd & 3rd-grade writers will have fun and learn writing skills with these step-by-step writing units. Each detailed lesson plan is integrated with aspects of reading instruction.

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This full-year writing unit is a detailed and comprehensive curriculum that is easy to use and highly engaging to students. It is designed to help teachers implement a writing program in their classrooms that get results.

Teach each week of skill-based writing lessons using a mentor text that aligns with the skills and writing traits you are teaching. Using mentor texts helps students see examples of good writing. Students will learn how to write sentences, and paragraphs, use transition words, organize their writing, and more!

Each 2nd & 3rd-grade Writing Unit includes:

• whole class, individual, and partner work using 4 mentor texts a month
• 20 lessons (5 per week) in each set except for set 1which has 4 lessons. Set 1 contains set-up activities and pre-assessments. Set 10 uses 2 books and contains 8 lessons. This set has extended activities for communication, types of presentation, etc.
• many strategies that will help your students learn to write in an open-ended format while learning through an explicit progression of skills. (ie. grammar, conventions, sentence/paragraph writing)
• anchor charts and anchor chart ideas
• oral language lessons as part of writing that focuses on conversation, drama, and more
• partner and independent work

This full-year 2nd & 3rd-grade writing curriculum is designed to increase writing skills, establish positive writing mindsets, and develop an environment of collaboration.

Use this unit to:

✅ teach fiction and nonfiction writing skills

✅ engage learners in conversations about ideas and writing

✅ teach students how to organize writing

✅ teach conventions in a fun and effective way

✅ demonstrate and model the 6 writing traits using mentor texts and lessons

Units can be used separately as skills build within each of the units. When used together, the scaffolding of skills builds from one unit to the next. This resource can help you start the year or can be used anytime throughout the year.

Download the preview for more details about this year-long unit and how it can help support your writing instruction this year.

Includes 2 BONUS FILES:

Launching Writer's Workshop mini unit

Organize your writing units with this handy set of BINDER COVERS & SPINES

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Take a look at the OVERVIEW here for a full list of standards and mentor texts used in this unit.

Here are the units included in this writing bundle:

★ Beginning a Writing Program

★ All About Sentences & Conventions

★ Informational Writing (Research)

★ Fiction/Personal Narrative

★ How to Writing

★ Author Studies and Learning About Voice

★ Narrative Writing and Practicing Voice

★ Opinion Writing, Conventions: editing and revising

★ Poetry Writing (oral language and sentence fluency)

★ Publishing and Presentation

This writing curriculum is also perfect for Canadian/UK/Australian students with alternative spelling included in each unit. (This resource also complements the literacy curriculum for British Columbia.)

You can also see a detailed blog post on pairing Writers Workshop with Interactive Writer's Notebooks here:

Creating a Writing Mindset With Primary Writers in the Classroom

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