Create a sense of accountability among scholars with a instructional activity that focuses on making and keeping New Year's resolutions. Writers compose a five paragraph essay focused on three resolutions—promises to self improvement, to...

The fifth installment in a writing unit that culminates with a Hyperstudio illustrated group story project, this plan is ripe with ideas for ways to design group writing projects for elementary writers. Use the whole unit as a base from...

Through grand conversation, help scholars identify issues that harm the Earth and find solutions on how to solve them. After voting—on what your class deems the most important problem—stretch writing muscles with a problem-solution essay...

Young scholars finalize and polish a research paper.  In this research writing lesson, students revise and double-check the corrected version of their first draft.  Young scholars peer edit and create a final draft.  Students create a...

Students write a 'how-to' paper. For this writing lesson students choose from a list of topics and write a paper explaining how to do something. The students also discuss the definition of a 'how-to' paper.

Third graders generate a written paragraph by following the 5-step writing process. In this paragraph writing lesson plan, 3rd graders practice brainstorming, prewriting, revising, creating final drafts, and publishing an original...