Writing Curriculum: Week-By-Week Lessons: Grade 1 Standards-Based Lessons That Guide Students Through the Writing Process, Teach Conventions, Explore Genres, and Help First Graders Write Effective Sentences and Paragraphs

A complete, standards-based writing curriculum designed specifically for first graders' developmental needs. The authors, experienced teachers, have sequenced the skills first-grade writers need to acquire. Then they created engaging lessons to teach and reinforce these skills. Through daily journal prompts and weekly writing lessons, first graders move from labeling pictures, to writing sentences, to composing paragraphs. Includes management strategies, conferring tips, and much, much more. For use with Grade 1.

Kathleen Carden and Mary Godley-Sugrue live and teach in Chicago. This is their first series for Scholastic.