During this interactive writing class, students will start off with a quick greeting and will quickly move into a quick grammar mini-lesson which will then lead into our writing lesson of the day wherein we will begin our weekly writing project. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a community of learners that support each other as they grow in their writing abilities. Each week, students will work through different parts of the writing process: brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing through a variety of writing genres. Students will be given feedback on their writing and independent learning goals by the teacher if they submit their work by the Friday after the class in the classroom. 
Students will learn grammar lessons through songs, chants, games, and color-coding parts of speech through an interactive whole group mini-lesson with a 2-3 minute independent practice to show what they have learned. Next, our class will then switch into our writing lesson wherein we will as a group begin the writing process with a mini-lesson on the genre or writing trait of focus to then move into brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, revising, and/or publishing our work depending on where we are in the writing process in each class. Students will have the opportunity to share their own writing and learn how to support others by listening to their work with helpful or congratulatory comments.  

Weekly Schedule of Lesson Focus:
Week of April 8th: Story Writing: Create a Comic
Students will learn how to write stories in a comic format using text features like speech and thought bubbles.
Week of April 15th:  Sequential Writing: How To Manuel...
Use a graphic organizer and nonfiction text features to help you describe how to complete a task or create something.
Week of April 22nd: Story Writing: Springtime Story
Use a graphic organizer to help you tell a story that is set during spring. 
Week of April 29th: Informational Writing Piece: All About My Toy/Game
Use a graphic organizer to help you describe a toy or game of your choosing.  
Week of May 1st: Story Writing: Crazy Comedy
How to write a funny story using comedic devices like overstatements, understatements, juxtaposition, repetition, puns, and double entendre using a graphic organizer.
Week of May 6th: Persuasive Writing: Best Pet
Students will use a graphic organizer to help them describe what the best pet would be (they can do real animals or fictional ones).
Week of May 13th: No Class/ Class Break
Week of May 20th: Personal Narrative Writing: Overcoming Obstacles
Use a graphic organizer to help you tell about a time when you overcame an obstacle or did something despite it being really hard.
Week of May 27th: Informational Writing: All About An Aquatic Animal
How to use a graphic organizer to help you write about an aquatic animal of your choice.
Week of June 3rd: Story Writing: Problem and Solution
How to write a story that has a problem with a clear solution with at least 3 main events in the story using a graphic organizer.
Week of June 10th: Important Invention: Informational Writing
Use a graphic organizer to tell key facts surrounding the creation and implementation of the invention.
Week of June 17th: Narrative Writing: Create a Comic
Students will learn how to write stories in a comic format using text features like speech and thought bubbles.
Week of June 24th: No Class/ Break
Week of July 1st: No Class/ Break
Week of July 8th: Personal Narrative: Fun In The Sun Story
Use a graphic organizer to tell about a time you had fun in the sun that is written in past tense with a beginning, middle, and end.
Week of July 15th: Opinion Writing: Movie Review
Use a graphic organizer to tell your opinion about a movie and with reasons that include quotes or examples to support them.
Week of July 22nd: Narrative Writing: Under the Sea Story
Use a graphic organizer to help you tell a story that takes place under the sea with a beginning, middle, and end. 
Week of July 29th: Compare and Contrast: Desert Animals
Use a Venn Diagram in your planning to help you where a paper where you compare and contrast two desert animals.