Kindergarten Writing Workshop Bundle

This yearlong bundle of narrative, opinion, and informational writing lessons for Kindergarten makes it easy to plan your writing instruction! Also included are posters, visuals, and writing rubrics to save you time.

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Teaching Kindergarteners to write is a big challenge - especially if some of your students begin Kindergarten not even knowing their letters!

You want your students to grow in their writing (and drawing!), but maybe you're not sure where to start.

Or maybe you DO know where to start, but planning fun, developmentally-appropriate lessons is taking up a ton of your time!

When I first began teaching Kindergarten, I struggled to find appropriate, easy-to-use lessons. At one school, our writing curriculum didn't have enough plans for the entire year, and preparing the lessons took a LOT of time. At my next school, there was no writing curriculum at all!

So I decided to design my own lessons based upon my students' needs. And I saw firsthand how they helped my students go from drawing (or scribbling!) to writing complete stories and books. My students were excited to write, and some of them began conducting their own "writing workshops" at home!

Today, over 5,000 teachers have used these same lessons with their Kindergarten students. They use them either as a standalone curriculum or to supplement their school's existing writing program.

The materials in this curriculum will help you:

- Bring your students from drawing to writing

- Establish writing workshop procedures that increase students' independence

- Engage students in meaningful, enjoyable writing activities

- Challenge students as writers, while still honoring their developmental needs

- Significantly cut down on your planning and prep time

Here's what the curriculum includes:

- 7 units that teach writing workshop routines and procedures, personal narratives, patterned books, how-to books, opinion/persuasive writing, fiction and fairy tale writing, and nonfiction/informational writing

- Complete minilessons with plenty of detail, so that you can easily leave them for a sub (131 minilessons total are included, leaving you time for reteaching and special projects)

- Materials to accompany the minilessons (graphic organizers, posters, and visual aids)

- Teacher-friendly and student-friendly rubrics

- Organizational materials to simplify planning and assessment

The lessons each take about 10 minutes to teach. Suggested mentor texts are included (so that students can learn from published authors), and you can view a list of suggestions HERE. You can also easily substitute your own texts!

You can purchase the units individually, but you save over 20% by purchasing this bundle.

Clicking on each link below will allow you to read more about the individual units. You can also buy one unit, try it out, and then contact me to receive reimbursement if you decide to buy the bundle.

Unit 1 - Introduction to the Writer’s Workshop

Unit 2 - Personal Narratives

Unit 3 - Writing Patterned Books

Unit 4 - How-To Books

Unit 5 - Opinion & Persuasive Writing

Unit 6 - Fiction & Fairy Tale Writing

Unit 7 - Nonfiction & All About Books

Although Common Core alignment is included, the curriculum was written based upon best practices in writing instruction, so you can use it even if you do not follow the Common Core Standards.

If you're ready to get guidance in your writing instruction AND start saving tons of planning time, grab this bundle now! And feel free to message me (Alison) in the Q and A's if you have any questions before purchasing.

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Other Materials You May Need:

For a complete Kindergarten reading and writing curriculum package, click HERE.

For a 1st grade writing curriculum, click {here}.

For a 2nd grade writing curriculum, click {here}.

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By: Learning At The Primary Pond