Writing

Writing Process
  • Dr. Steve Graham’s Presentation
    Changing Writing Instruction
  • Nancy Fetzer’s K-1 Writing Curriculum Online Video Training Videos
    http://www.commoncorestandardswriting.com/
    Utilize Nancy Fetzer’s K-1Writing Curriculum free videos to teach the Common Core State Writing Standards for Kindergarten and First Grade students. These online videos are packed with research-based, highly engaging lessons, tools, and techniques to ensure ALL student master the standards.
  • Nancy Fetzer’s 2-3 Writing Curriculum Online Training Videos
    http://www.commoncorestandardswriting.com/nancy-fetzers-grades-2-3-writing-curriculum-online-training/
    This online training is for teachers, support staff, and parents. Utilize Nancy Fetzer’s 2-3 Writing Curriculum Online Training Videos to teach the CCRS Writing Standards for Second and Third Grade Students. These videos are packed with research-based, highly engaging lessons, tools, and techniques to ensure ALL students, whether Second Language Learners, Special Education, and General Education master the standards.
  • Nancy Fetzer’s 4-6 Writing Curriculum Online Training Videos
    http://www.commoncorestandardswriting.com/nancy-fetzers-grades-4-6-writing-curriculum-online-training/
    This online training is for Teachers, Support Staff, and Parents. Utilize Nancy Fetzer’s Grades 4-6 Writing Curriculum Online Training Videos to teach the Common Core State Writing Standards for Fourth through Sixth Grade Students. These videos are packed with research-based, highly engaging lessons, tools, and techniques to ensure ALL students, whether Second Language Learners, Special Education, and General Education master the standards.
  • Teaching 4 Square (Writing) In 1st Grade
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0tixtWIgo
    This is a video a first-grade class made to help other 1st Grade teachers teach the 4 Square Writing Technique.
  • Whole Brain Teaching: Amazing Kindergarten Writing!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2N4q0WOFv4
    Watch in amazement as Andrea Schindler’s inner city, San Bernardino, California kindergarteners demonstrate all the steps necessary for them to produce five paragraph, college style essays. You’ll learn about college talk, baby talk, mirror words, air punctuation, the “because clapper” and the astonishing powers of the Triple Whammy sentence.
  • 3rd Grade 5 Square Paragraph Common Core Writing Lesson from WriteSteps
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsG7aghytl0&t=164s
    Model lesson of how to use the 5 square organizer to write a clear, concise, detailed paper.
  • REACH Workshop Series: Emergent Writing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRpHqksGSkY
    In this video, REACH classroom teachers model best practices for emergent writing instruction.
  • A Room of Writers (Reading Rockets)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPIxc7IR2YI
    Go inside Shana Sterkin’s third grade class as she engages her students in writer’s workshop. Everyone shares their writing, including Miss Sterkin.
Writing Strategies for Short Response Questions
Opinion / Argumentative Writing
Narrative Writing
  • 4th Grade Common Core Writing: Adding Detail to Narrative with the 5 Ws by WriteSteps
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbcu18Ruv8Y
    This 21-minute video features guided writing, adding detail & description with the 5 Ws and H, and examples of conferencing with students.
  • Narrative Writing Strategies for Second Grade Students
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9icayqXr0dw
    Second-grade students use iPads apps as they work on their narrative writing as Teacher Kristin Leader prepares them for future online assessments. Students are seen working through the entire writing process with a focus on students using temporal words as well as the importance of peer and self-editing.
Informational Writing
  • Writing Strategies For Kindergarten Students Writing Informational Paragraphs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-SQlvR_vo
    Teacher, Amy Klein, guides her Kindergarten students to write informational paragraphs over four separate days. The process covers reading, planning, guided writing, and concludes with students independently writing an informational paragraph about chickens.
  • Informational Writing Strategies for Second Grade Students
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDBTbitPX8
    Second-grade students use technology in their informational writing as Common Core Demonstration Teacher Kristin Leader prepares them for future online assessments. Students are seen working through the entire writing process with a focus on students supporting their writing with facts and definitions as well as the importance of peer editing. (Note: This strategy can be used with all grade levels.)
Writing Practice