First Grade Writing

About Grade 1 Writing

Grade 1 writing (1st grade, ages 6–7) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Getting Started with Writing (lessons 1–10), Expressing Ideas (lessons 11–18), Creative Writing (lessons 19–26), Functional Writing (lessons 27–34), and finally Project & Review (lessons 35–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to write sentences about activities using I like to with an action word, invent a made-up character, magical setting, and creative problem using imagination and write a title that tells the reader what the list is about.

Start here: Lesson 1: Holding a Pencil Correctly is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.