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📖 1st Grade · ELAW.1.2Unit 10: Informative writing: How-to & All About

How-to writing

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🎯 Objective: Students write steps in order for a simple task.

Lesson outline

  1. Model making a peanut butter sandwich — follow the steps literally!
  2. Use first, next, then, last.
  3. Students draft how-to steps with pictures.
  4. Exit: read your steps.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.1.2

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name a topic, supply facts and provide closure

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informative writing: How-to & All About”

  1. How-to writing
  2. Research a topic
  3. Writing facts
  4. Publishing

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