The Write Stuff - Beginning Small Group Writing Lessons

As a special educator, I understand how to meet learners at their present level of need and how to design lessons which foster skill development as well as self confidence.
Each class will focus on a specific skill and will include time for practice as well as for sharing.
After each class is complete, I will send one optional worksheet via email which focuses on the skill of the day.  Learners are welcome to email it back to me or to share it at the next class if they would like to do so.
These lessons are designed to be stand-alone sessions, so students do not have to attend all of them to be successful, although I have built-in review lessons which will cover a broad range of subjects previously taught.  Those review lessons will cover a range of skills; however, students will not have to have attended previous classes to be successful in them.

Classes will follow the following schedule:
First, all learners will be given a chance to share their progress or a good thing that has happened since we met last.
Second, I will give an explicit lesson about the skill to be learned which will follow the I do, We do, You do format.
Third, learners will have a short time to show the class what they know through an independent activity.
Last, everyone will be given a chance to share their new knowledge with the class before we say good-bye.

I will follow the following sequence:

Week of November 5: Punctuation/ Capitalization
Week of November 12: Pronouns/Adjectives
Week of November 19: Adverbs
Week of November 26: Review of lessons 1-3
Week of December 3: And, Commas and run-on sentences
Week of December 10:  And, commas and run-on sentences
Week of January 7: Review of lessons 4-5
Week of January 14: Incomplete sentences (fragments)
Week of January 21: Common spelling rules
Week of January 28: Review lessons 6-7
Week of February 4: Interjections
Week of February 11: Conjunctions
Week of February 18:Prepositions
Week of February 25: Review lesson 8-10
Week of  March 3: Descriptive sentence
Week of March 10: Informational sentence
Week of March 17: Narrative sentence
Week of March 24: Review lessons 11-13
Week of March 31: Opinion sentence
Week of April 7: Persuasive sentence
Week of April 14: Review lessons 14-15
Week of April 21: Paragraph development (topic sentence)
Week of April 28: Paragraph development (body)
Week of May 5:  Concluding sentence
Week of May 12: Proper editing