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 partnerThis 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