Watch your learner's writing skills and confidence soar as we work through the writing process to craft our own pieces of writing in a variety of genres. Graphic organizers help us plan and organize our writing and get past the, "I don't know what to write about" dilemma. 

An Outschool parent had this to say about this class: 
💬"What a great class! My 7 year old used to hate writing and said this is his favorite class! Highly recommended!" 

Lesson Topics:
📝Opinion Paragraph/Writing Directions/How To/Sequencing
📝nformational Paragraph: A Place You Have Been
📝Narrative Writing: Crafting a Short Story with a Beginning, Middle and End 
📝Descriptive Paragraphs/Visualizing

📝Descriptive Paragraphs/Audience and Purpose
📝Descriptive Paragraphs/Using Adjectives
📝 Informational Paragraphs/Main Idea and Details
📝 Informational Paragraphs/Main Idea and Details

📝Informational Paragraphs/Sequencing
📝Narrative Paragraphs/Using Describing Words
📝Retelling an Event/Who, What, Where, When, How
📝Opinion Paragraph/ Topic Sentences and Details
📝Personal Narrative/ Beginning, Middle, End

📝Writing Directions/How To/Sequencing
📝 Writing Directions/How To/Sequencing
📝Using Paragraphs in Journals
📝Rule of "P"/Paragraphing

📝Narrative Writing/Crafting a Small Moment
📝Replace Overused Words
📝Narrative Writing/Show-Don't Tell
📝Narrative Writing/Writing About an Adventure

📝Informational Writing: All About An Animal
📝Informational Writing/Compare & Contrast: Favorite Activities
📝Opinion Paragraph/Writing Directions/How To/Sequencing
📝Informational Paragraph: A Place You Have Been
📝Narrative Writing: Crafting a Short Story with a Beginning, Middle and End 

📝Descriptive Paragraphs/Visualizing


The lessons and activities in this class support the following standards for students in grades 1–3:
📝Learner uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process:
Uses prewriting strategies to plan written work
Uses strategies to draft written work (adds descriptive words)
Uses strategies to edit and publish written work (incorporates illustrations)
Evaluates own and others’ writing
Uses strategies to organize written work
Uses writing and other methods to describe familiar persons, places, objects, or experiences
Writes in a variety of forms or genres
Writes for different purposes (to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)
Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing:
Uses descriptive words to convey basic ideas

✏️Learner uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions:
Uses complete sentences in written compositions
Uses nouns in written compositions (nouns for simple objects, family members, community workers, and categories)
Uses verbs in written compositions (verbs for a variety of situations, action words)
Uses adjectives in written compositions (uses descriptive words)
Uses adverbs in written compositions (uses words that answer how, when, where, and why questions)

*Learners need to be able to write sentences. This class is for advanced 1st graders/6 year olds, and all 2nd/3rd/4th graders.

🌟Leaves of Learning Academy is rated "Popular" by Outschool because we are in the top 10% of all teachers on Outschool. This means we offer classes that are in high demand that fill up quickly! 🌟

*Leaves of Learning Academy is an organization on Outschool with about 18 teachers. Occasionally, the teacher for this class may not be able to teach and a substitute teacher from the organization will take her place. Only teachers trained to teach this class will serve as a possible substitute for the class. A message will be posted in the Outschool classroom before the class takes place in the event a substitute will be teaching. I am happy to offer a refund to any learner who prefers not to attend the class with a substitute. Please send a message through Outschool in that event and I will issue a refund. Thank you!


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Outschool policies regarding refunds for classes:

✅If your learner misses a class meeting, you are not entitled to a refund. Your teacher may, however, transfer your learner to another available section, or provide a class recording, at their discretion.
✅If your learner has not joined the meeting 10 minutes after the class’s start time, the meeting may be cancelled, at the teacher’s discretion. This is considered a missed meeting and you are not entitled to a refund.
✅Refunds are not guaranteed in the event that your learner misses a past or future class meeting due to a schedule conflict, and will depend on the class-specific refund policy.
✅If your learner’s meeting time changes because of daylight saving time starting or ending for several world regions, you are not entitled to a refund if they’re unable to attend. Please review your learner’s schedule ahead of time to ensure you know when classes are meeting.