Writing: Teachers & Students

Lesson 1: Getting Started

Lesson 2: The Writing Process

Lesson 3: Writing a Story

Lesson 4: Describing Something

Lesson 5: More Kinds of Writing

Lessons

Lesson 1: Getting Started
This lesson will help you to get started as a writer. In this lesson we'll look at some of the things you will need to become a writer. We'll learn...

Writing Tools

Warm-Ups

A Word on Brainstorming

Lesson 2: The Writing Process
There are five main steps in the writing process. They are prewriting, writing, sharing and revising, editing, and publishing. These steps can...

Prewriting

Writing Your Draft

Share and Revise

Editing

Publishing

Lesson 3: Writing a Story
Do you love to tell stories? If you like to talk about your family or where you went for dinner last night or what you want...

What Every Story Needs

Telling the Story

Prompts

Narrative Ladder

Lesson 4: Describing Something
Have you ever picked up a book, and been so caught up in the words that you felt like you were right there in the story? Have...

Descriptive Words

Take a Memory Walk

Prompts

Lesson 5: More Kinds of Writing
In this lesson we will look at two more kinds of writing. They have big names - expository writing and persuasive writing, but...

Real Writing

Write a 'How To'

Persuasive Writing

Fact or Opinion

Two to Try

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