During this interactive writing class, students will start with a quick greeting and students will share their current writing project that they are working on and where they are at in the writing process for this class period. Then, we will quickly move into either a grammar or writing craft lesson of the day. We will practice this skill through a quick activity or game that will help us incorporate this lesson into our writing piece. Students should have a basic understanding of grammar upon entering the class, as we will be working on including complex sentence structures and analyzing how this element can enhance our writing piece. 
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 student will have the opportunity to share an excerpt from their writing for positive or constructive feedback from the group, but no one is forced to share their work. Students will work through different parts of the writing process: brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing through a variety of writing genres with alternating themes. 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 or writing craft lessons through songs, chants, games, and color-coding parts of speech through an interactive whole-group mini-lesson. 
Next, our class will then switch into our writing time wherein we will as a group begin the writing process and students will begin brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, revising, and/or publishing our work depending on where each student is in their current writing piece. Students will have the opportunity to share their 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: Informational Writing: Planning and Organizing Reports
Use a graphic organizer to help you plan, research, and organize information to help you write a report.
Week of April 15th: Informational Writing: Parts of a Paragraph and Sentence Structure
Focus on utilizing different sentence structures to help you express your ideas with a variety of sentence structures that make your writing more interesting and informative.
Week of April 22nd: Informational Writing: Citing Your Sources
How to write in-text citations and create a reference page to show where you found your information when writing a report.
Week of April 29th: Informational Writing: Finding the Right Format
Learn about different ways to format or publish your report, including slide shows, presentations, essays, or brochures.
Week of May 6th: Informational Writing: The Importance of Word Choice and Defining Lingo
How to make sure that you are using a variety of words to keep your writing interesting and how to define lingo or specific names/ titles associated with your topic.
Week of May 13th: Class Break
Week of May 20th:  Informational Writing: Writing A Science Experiment Lab Report 
How to organize your thoughts and experiences into a lab format using the scientific method.
Week of May 27th: Informational Writing: Nature Journals or Observation Logs
 How to write out important observations and include data in different forms like sketches, charts, or tables.
Week of June 3rd: Narrative Writing: Journal or Diary Writing 
How to record events in your daily life for your own contemplation and reflection.
Week of June 10th: Narrative Writing: Memoir
How to write a personal account of an event or series of events from your memory.
Week of June 17th: Informational Writing: Biography or Historical Event: How to elaborate on important information with interesting words and nonfiction text features. 
Week of June 24th: No Class/ Break
Week of July 1st: No Class/ Break
Week of July 8th: Narrative Writing: Expanding the Exposition
Focus on establishing a great story by incorporating important details. Introducing the characters and setting in a way that helps the reader engage in the story from the start!
Week of July 15th: Narrative Writing: Building Suspense to Climb to the Climax
Focusing on the rising action and including events that help build up to the climax of the story and include an exciting climactic event.
Week of July 22nd: Week of July 10th: Narrative Writing: Falling Action and Resolution
Focus on wrapping up the key parts of your story to show character and plot development by incorporating summarization or an epilogue. 
Week of July 29th: Narrative Writing: Playing with the Plot Timeline 
Include different techniques to play with time through backstories, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and foreshadowing.