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Writer's Life Units Writing Cycles End-of-Cycle Writing Prompts Benchmark Papers Student Writing Samples Additional Writing Resources

Writing Instruction

Units for Grades 1–5

Writer's Life Units

• Introduction to Living the Writer's Life: Kindergarten for Teachers
  Overview and Lessons, Kindergarten (PDF or Word)
• Introduction to Living the Writer's Life: Grade 1, Part 1 for Teachers
• Introduction to Living the Writer's Life: Grade 1, Part 2 for Teachers
  Overview and Lessons, Grade 1 (PDF or Word)
• Introduction to Living the Writer's Life: Grades 2–5 for Teachers
  Overview and Lessons, Grades 2–5 (PDF or Word)
• Introduction to Living the Writer's Life: Grades 3–5, Revised and Updated

Writing Cycles

• Sample Year Overview for Writing Cycles, K–5 (PDF or Word)
• Kindergarten (PDF or Word)
• First Grade (PDF or Word)
• Second Grade (PDF or Word)
• Third–Fifth Grades (Intermediate) (PDF or Word)

Writing Prompts

• End-of-Cycle Prompts
  English (PDF or Word)
  Spanish (PDF or Word)
• Pre-/Post-Writing Prompts (PDF or Word)

Benchmark Papers

• Kindergarten
  English (PDF or Word)
• Grade 1
  English (PDF or Word)
  Spanish (PDF or Word)
• Grade 2
  English (PDF or Word)
  Spanish (PDF or Word)
• Grade 3
  English (PDF or Word)
• Grade 4
  English (PDF or Word)
  Spanish (PDF or Word)
• Grade 5
  English (PDF or Word)
  Spanish (PDF or Word)

Student Writing Samples and Teacher Notes

The files below are in PDF format. For Word versions, please email Joel' Bradley-Hess at joel_bradley-hess@dpsk12.org.

Narrative	Response to Literature	Report Writing	Poetry
Kindergarten Our Family My Dad Is Special I Like School My Cousin's House Tower of Terror First Grade This Morning It Was a Cloudy Day to Go to Daycare It Was a Sunny Day at the Zoo All My Friends Have You Ever Had an Exciting Birthday? Raquel Lakeside Ride Second Grade Zoo Trip My Dog Rex A Long Time Ago in Arvada The Snowball Fight Light Rail Smash! Last Summer I Was Playing on the Sandy Beach	Kindergarten The Mixed-Up Chameleon A Leprechaun Connection to Grandma First Grade Brave Irene—Response 1 Brave Irene—Response 2 Brave Irene—Response 3 Books by Mem Fox In a Dark, Dark House Second Grade The Littles A Fine, Fine School Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair Student Responses Before and After Instruction	Kindergarten The Brain First Grade Horseshoe Crabs Thomas the Tank Snakes Second Grade Dinosaurs Germany Food Groups All about Bugs How to Jump Rope How to Make a Pop Milkshake How to Solve a Problem How to Put on Makeup How to Catch a Fish	First Grade The Bell Walked to School Stars Oh Sun The Flower that I'm Watching

Additional Writing Resources

• Sheltering Writers Workshop for English-Language Learners (PDF or Word)
• Assessment OF and FOR Learning during Literacy Instruction—Writing Assessment (PowerPoint)

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