First Grade Informational Writing | Unit 6 | 20-Day Workshop

Turn “I know all about that!” into a book someone else can learn from. Writing Detectives, Book Six: All About Books is a four-week first-grade informational writing unit that helps children choose a familiar topic, share accurate facts, organize their ideas, and create writing that teaches a reader.

You get 20 daily lessons in one bookmarked, 150-page PDF, with teaching plans, original mentor stories, visual models, partner activities, student pages, and assessment tools brought together for your writing block.

Inside, you’ll find:

• 20 explicit lessons with learning targets, timed teaching steps, teacher language, modeling guidance, and time for children to write.
• An original, continuing Fox-and-Raccoon mentor story filled with humor, problems, and decisions that give each writing lesson a purpose.
• Varied classroom models, realistic teaching images, and authentic-looking crayon drawings that make writing moves easier to understand.
• Provided fact files and model source strips to support checking information without sending children off to research independently.
• 4 complete partner activities: Topic Teams, Fact Checkers, Fact Families, and Reader Repairs, with materials and checking keys.
• Printable planning, drafting, revising, and publishing pages with generous drawing space, uppercase NAME and DATE labels, and primary handwriting lines.
• Entry and exit writing tasks, teacher-created developmental examples, an informational writing rubric, and fillable teacher records.
• 4 weekly whole-class quick checks for up to 28 writers, plus optional conference and growth records.

The month follows a clear progression. Week One develops a focused topic. Week Two builds accurate information. Week Three organizes related facts and strengthens pictures, labels, and captions. Week Four develops endings, revision, editing, and publication.

Children can keep developing one chosen book while the teaching models change across seven familiar topics. That means fresh demonstrations and meaningful practice while students retain ownership of their ideas and words.