First Grade Units Of Study
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Unit One: Small Moments - Writing with Focus, Detail and Dialogue
- Writing small moment stories with independence
- Bringing small moment stories to life
- Studying other writers' craft
- Fixing up and fancying up our best work
Unit Two: Writing How-to Books
- Getting started: thinking of topics, rehearsing, and writing tons of books
- Write in such a way that readers can read the text and follow the directions
- With feedback, writers can revise their how-to texts, make new texts worlds better, and share them with an audience
Unit Three: Nonfiction Chapter Books
- Writing teaching books with independence
- Nonfiction writers can write chapter books
- Writing chapter books with greater independence
Unit Four: Writing Reviews
- Best in show: judging our collections
- Writing persuasive reviews
- Writing persuasive book reviews
Unit Five: From Scenes to Series - Writing Fiction
- Fiction writers set out to write realistic fiction
- Fiction writers set out to write series
- Becoming more powerful at realistic fiction: Studying the genre and studying ourselves as writers
- Getting ready to publish our second series
Unit Six: Poetry and Songs
- Immersion in poetry and song writing
- Studying the rhythm and voice of songs to help us write our own
- Songwriters and poets write from the heart: writing meaningful songs
- Songwriters and poets revise and write new songs and poems
Unit Seven: Writing Like Scientists
- Scientists write to learn about the world, experiment to answer lingering questions, and use what they know about information writing to teach others
- Scientists collaborate with partners and record their experiments, raising the level of their non-narrative writing
- Scientists put all their learning together and publish information books