The Write Stuff - Intermediate 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.  I will present well-written pieces to the class as examples to follow, the class will write something together, and then learners will be encouraged to try the skill themselves.
Third, learners will develop the daily skill through an independent writing activity
Last, everyone will be given a chance to share their new knowledge or creation with the class before we say good-bye.

I will follow the following sequence:
Week of June 9:  Sentence review/ 6 W's (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How) 
Week of June 16: "Tired" words/ And/Then, commas, run-on sentences, incomplete sentences
Week of June 23: Subject/Predicate
Week of June 30: Adjectives/ Adverbs
Week of July 7: Figurative Language
Week of July 21: Dialogue/ Hook and Writing strategies (POWS)
Week of July 28: Narrative Paragraph 
Week of August 4: Narrative Paragraph
Week of August 11:Text supports (images, graphs, etc.)
Week of August 18: Explanatory (expository) Paragraph
Week of August 25: Explanatory (expository) Paragraph
Week of September 8: Opinion Paragraph
Week of September 15: Opinion Paragraph
Week of September 22: Persuasive Paragraph
Week of September 29:  Persuasive Paragraph