First Grade Sentence Writing Unit 2 | Sentence Workshop | Writers Academy

Help your first graders turn their ideas into complete, meaningful sentences—and learn how to make those sentences clearer.

Writers Academy Book 2: Sentence Workshop is a four-week writing unit with 20 sequenced lessons and 305 pages of teaching materials, illustrated mentor stories, partner activities, student writing pages, and assessment tools.

Join Fox and Raccoon as students explore complete thoughts, choose useful details, practice capitals and punctuation, and prepare writing to share. Each lesson connects a specific sentence skill to something children want to communicate.

Four Weeks of Sentence-Writing Instruction

Week 1: Complete Thoughts

Students learn that a sentence communicates a whole idea. They name who or what, finish incomplete thoughts, arrange words in a meaningful order, and check that words and pictures agree.

Week 2: Grow a Sentence

Students choose clear actions and add details that tell where, when, or which one. They practice adding information that helps the reader picture the intended event.

Week 3: Boundaries and Purposes

Students practice sentence beginnings, word spacing, and ending punctuation. Lessons explore telling sentences, real questions, helpful directions, and messages that express strong feelings.

Week 4: Connect, Revise, Share

Students practice joining related thoughts with support, writing two connected sentences, repairing unclear meaning, and preparing a page to share. A final writing sample helps teachers notice growth and plan the next step.

What’s Included

• 20 lessons organized into four weeks of five lessons

• Teacher directions, modeling language, and conference prompts

• Original illustrated mentor stories featuring Fox and Raccoon

• Classroom visuals for projection or printing

• Partner activities, picture cards, sorting mats, and word tiles

• Independent drawing and writing pages

• Before-and-after sentence revision activities

• Teacher-created writing examples with suggested next teaching moves

• Entry and exit writing samples using the same prompt and format

• Fillable class assessment records with space for 28 students

• 25 additional teacher-resource pages

• Picture vocabulary support and student sentence-check strips

• Clickable contents and PDF bookmarks

Reusable Activities That Support the Lessons

The resource includes a Complete Thought Sort, Sentence Builders, a Detail Workshop, and Sentence Repair activities. Preparation directions, practice materials, and teacher checks help you organize activities for repeated use.

Support the Writer’s Own Ideas

Students have opportunities to talk, draw, rehearse, write, reread, and explain their choices. Teacher guidance includes ways to support emerging writers and extend learning while keeping the child’s intended meaning at the center.

Mentor stories are read aloud, and adults can read unfamiliar activity words. Children can participate through speech, gesture, drawing, home language, or their usual communication tools.

Practical for Classroom Use

Use the unit during your first-grade writing block, with small groups, or for targeted sentence-writing support. No outside storybook purchase is required. Some reusable activities require cutting; optional lamination or sleeves can help materials last.

Save ink: Project the colorful stories and classroom visuals on your SMART Board or classroom display. Print only the student pages and practice materials you need.

Product Details

Grade: First Grade

Length: Four weeks · 20 lessons

Total: 305 pages

Format: Downloadable PDF with fillable teacher assessment records

Created by Dr. Theresa Nellis.

This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped.