Writing Mini-Lessons for First Grade

This excellent classroom resource features mini-lessons that cover different ways to write, writing good sentences, deciding what to write about, starting an editor’s checklist, choosing titles, and what to do when you get “stuck.” It is designed to take teachers through the school year and help ensure student success during the Writing Block. It also fully supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model.

Dottie Hall is a former curriculum coordinator who has taught first, second, third, and fourth grades, and at the college level. Dottie is the director of the Four-Blocks Center at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of teaching experience and i

Pat Cunningham is a professor of education at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pat has taught first grade, fourth grade, and remedial reading and has over 30 years of teaching experience. She is involved in staff development with t