Grade 1 • Language Arts • Writing
Writing
Your child will write for various audiences addressing a variety of purposes: to inform or explain, to persuade, and to express personal ideas. They will also control sentence structure, adjust word choice, and employ the conventions of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
First Grade Writing Units
- The Writing Community
- Getting Ideas
- Telling More
- Writing Stories About Me
- Writing Nonfiction
- Exploring Words Through Poetry
- Opinion Writing
- Revisiting the Writing Community
Writing Tips
- Encourage your child to write often.
- Provide an area in your home for writing with special materials (pencils, different types of paper, markers, envelopes).
- Praise your child’s writing.
- Share letters and cards from friends and relatives with your child.
- Encourage journal writing for special occasions (trips, family events, planning a birthday party).
- Have your child help you compose shopping lists, notes and letters to friends, and invitations.
- Encourage your child to write stories.
- Allow your child to take risks on a rough draft. Be your child’s partner for changing and correcting his or her writing.
- Encourage your child to write thank you notes, invitations, letters to others, lists of things to do, and items to take on a trip.
Handwriting Tips and REsources
- Practice at least 30 minutes per week.
- Practice writing letters in the air, on the carpet, in shaving cream, on a sibling's or parent's back.
- Letter Formation Links to an external site. (English) Letter Formation Links to an external site. (Spanish)
- Handwriting paper Links to an external site.
Writing Samples
Writing Expectations
Writing Developmental Levels
Writing Activities
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