First Grade Revising & Publishing | Unit 9 | 20-Day Workshop

Four weeks of first-grade revision and publishing, already planned. Help your students move beyond “I’m done” to “I know how to make this clearer.” Writers Academy: Writing Detectives, Book Nine—Author Workshop gives you 20 connected lessons for choosing a piece, revising with purpose, responding to feedback, and sharing writing with an audience.

Students revisit stories, informational writing, and opinions before selecting one focus piece to develop. They keep their drafts, make useful changes, and build a portfolio that shows the thinking behind their finished work.

Fox and Raccoon bring the process to life through a continuing illustrated story about preparing an author showcase. Their unfinished books, confusing sentences, different opinions, and reader questions give children concrete reasons to revise.

The unit includes:

• 20 explicit lessons with learning targets, suggested timing, teaching models, shared practice, and focused next steps.
• 20 short Fox-and-Raccoon story episodes that connect the daily writing moves.
• Before-and-after models that demonstrate useful details, connected events, checked facts, stronger reasons, and fitting endings.
• 4 complete partner activities: Purpose Pairs, Revision Detectives, Reader’s Chair, and Portfolio Path, with directions, materials, checking keys, and writing transfer.
• Student planning, revision, feedback, publishing, author-note, and portfolio pages with generous drawing space and open primary handwriting lines.
• Multilingual Learner Support, extensions, and targeted reteaching guidance.
• Entry and exit narrative tasks, teacher-created exemplars, a narrative rubric, and fillable weekly class snapshots for up to 28 students.

The 4-week sequence builds toward a meaningful finish:

• Week 1: Revisit writing, try three purposes, and choose a piece and goal.
• Week 2: Revise meaning, clarify events, check facts, and strengthen reasons.
• Week 3: Develop endings, consider feedback, edit, and identify evidence of growth.
• Week 4: Publish, write an author note, assemble a portfolio, and share.