First Grade How-To Writing Lessons {1st Grade Writing Workshop Unit 3}

This 3 week unit will help you teach your first grade students to write how-to books!

The unit is designed to be taught toward the beginning or middle of the year but can be used anytime you want to teach students how to write how-to books (procedural nonfiction).

In this unit, students will learn how to:
- Plan and write a how-to book to teach a reader how to perform a specific task
- Write a list of materials for the how-to book, and add commas to the list
- Write with detailed steps and transition words
- Create detailed, labeled pictures to teach the reader
- Write an introduction and a conclusion to a how-to book
- Revise and edit independently and with a partner

This unit includes:
- 15 detailed minilessons that will last about 3 weeks
- Daily language arts/grammar exercises that complement the minilessons
- Clear unit goals, daily objectives, and Common Core alignment
- Posters, visual aids, a writing stages display, and other materials to go with the minilessons (all color materials also have black and white versions included)
- Ideas for technology integration
- Printable writing paper
- FAQs and important information to help you set up the writing - workshop
- Rubrics, anecdotal note forms, and other materials to help you get organized
- An informational writing rubric that you can use throughout the year
- 84 total pages of materials and resources

This is the third unit in an 8-unit writing curriculum series for first grade. CLICK HERE to view all of the units in a discounted bundle.  

Please contact Alison at Alison@LearningAtThePrimaryPond.com if you have any questions about the materials!