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Writing Curriculum Products

Engage all learners with a multi-sensory, explicit instructional writing program. Our writing products below utilize the plan, talk and write format that systematically and specifically instructs students through the writing process.

Nancy Fetzer's Grades K-1 Writing Curriculum

Use Nancy Fetzer’s K-1 Writing Curriculum manual and her free online videos to train yourself.

These online videos are packed with research-based, highly engaging lessons, tools, and techniques to ensure ALL students, whether Second Language Learners, Special Education, and General Education reach high-levels of written language skills.

Utilize the plan, talk and write format that systematically and specifically instructs students through the writing process.

During these lessons, students develop academic language through systematic writing instruction to plan, revise, and edit their writing. This instructional model has a specific design: The teacher begins with step-by-step, explicit instruction that creates a routine of learning. Students then practice the strategy with immediate and corrective feedback from the teacher. After many lessons, the teacher then slowly releases students to the partner level, and finally independent writing.

Implement emergent writing strategies and deliver the metacognitive skills necessary for students to segment and write unknown words, as well as to write sight words.

Once these skills are mastered students then learn the explicit steps to write complete cohesive and coherent sentences, and finally powerful paragraphs.

Increase academic oral language skills with highly engaging pre-reading techniques!

Word Masters is a fast-paced activity that introduces robust vocabulary, while Movie Scripts bridges the vocabulary words to academic oral language using a movie script twist. Another pre-reading activity is Lecture Notes. Unique interactive Lecture Notes construct narrative and expository text structure elements and sophisticated oral language practice to frontload students with background knowledge to access the language arts, science or social studies core curriculum.

Nancy Fetzer's Grades 2-3 Writing Curriculum

Use Nancy Fetzer’s 2-3 Writing Curriculum manual and her free online videos to train yourself.

Engage all learners with a multi-sensory, explicit instructional writing program.

During these lessons, students develop the skills to write succinct summaries and information, entertaining narratives, and convincing opinions. Engaging chants introduce the organization and purpose for the writing genres. Two simple, student-drawn organizers empower learners to plan their own writing without the crutch of duplicated organizers. Academic language rehearsals transform ideas from the organizer into sophisticated cohesive and coherent sentences and paragraphs.

Streamline instruction by providing instant feedback with the unique Plan, Talk and Write System that slowly releases students from highly-scaffolded lessons to independent writing

Utilize the Revise and Edit Wall! Short and simple lessons in which students learn to independently revise and edit their writing with kid-friendly tools that work. Learn unique ways to fit everything into your schedule promoting authentic, meaningful writing connected to the core content.

Nancy Fetzer's Grades 4-6 Writing Curriculum

Use Nancy Fetzer’s 4-6 Writing Curriculum manual and her free online videos to train yourself.

Write sensational sentences, perfect paragraphs and exceptional essays.

Engage all learners with a multi-sensory, explicit instructional writing program. Conduct systematic writing lessons to plan and organize ideas for succinct summaries and information, entertaining narratives, and convincing opinions and arguments. Streamline instruction by providing instant feedback for every student with the unique Plan, Talk and Write System that slowly releases students from highly-scaffolded lessons to independent writing.

Utilize the Revise and Edit Wall!

Short and simple lessons in which students learn to independently revise and edit their writing with kid-friendly tools that work. Learn unique ways to fit everything into your schedule promoting authentic, meaningful writing connected to the core content.

Nancy Fetzer's Writing Connections K-8 Downloadable Book

The Writing Connections manual is packed with explicit direct instruction lessons for planning and writing sophisticated sentences, well-developed paragraphs, and advanced five-paragraph essays.

Language is the critical key to this writing process. Second Language Learners, Resource Students, General Education Students, and Gifted and Talented Students all benefit by actively reaching their highest potential through constant vocabulary building and oral language practice.

This unique and dynamic program utilizes five basic organizers. Students learn one organizer at a time as they move through the different levels of writing from sentences to one-paragraph and three-paragraphs, and finally the five-paragraph essay, regardless of whether the genre, is narrative, expository, or persuasive.

Learn to assess students’ compositions utilizing the Levels of Writing Assessment (LWA), which identifies each instructional writing stage with specific teaching points.

This program provides a continuum of instruction that bridges one grade to the next for a schoolwide master plan with specifically designed strategies, goals, and objectives for every student and for every grade level.

The Letter Writing Downloadable Kit

The Letter Writing Kit Includes…

The Story Book: The story book is a unique and dynamic tool that introduces different types of letters, and an invitation through a story involving the Big Bad Wolf, Mr. Pig, and many other magical characters from the Royal Kingdom. Introduce different types of letters through a story involving the Big Bad Wolf, Mr. Pig, and many other magical characters from the Royal Kingdom.

The Letter Writing Manual: The manual is aligned to the big book. Each Chapter includes specific directions, lessons, and blackline masters to teach the different types of letters, and the invitation. A guide filled with steps and procedures to teach letter writing.

This manual is part of a letter writing kit that is packed with kid-friendly lessons, activities, and materials that engage all students to write organized and interesting letters. Follow the six-sequential steps outlined in the manual to teach students the skills necessary to write friendly letters, business letters, thank you notes and invitations.

Use the following wide variety of tools, strategies, and resources for exemplary instruction:

Engaging, systematic scripted lessons connected to stories from the big book.
Oral language strategies and rehearsals of organizers to elicit sophisticated writing.
Teacher Write and Student Write instruction that uses best teaching practices.
Parent letters that explain homework assignments for easy implementation.

This Kit also includes two free downloads!

The Friendly Letter Organizers
There are two organizers that teachers utilize to teach students how to write a friendly letter.:

1. Friendly Letter Brainstorm Page
2. Friendly Letter Writing Page

The Friendly Letter Magnets
There are eight 3”x 3” four-color pictures to adhere to magnets for the friendly letter lessons. Each magnet displays one of the Friendly Letter characters.