WriteShop Primary

Introduce beginning writing skills to your students aged 5 to 9 through games, crafts, picture books, and one-on-one teaching time.

WriteShop Primary Overview
Skills Chart
Scope & Sequence
Sample Lesson

Fun Is the Word of the Day!

WriteShop Primary is an exciting, parent-guided writing curriculum with daily, easy-to-implement activities. WriteShop Primary uses hands-on activities to teach the concepts of the writing process at the very simplest level. It’s perfect for pre-writers as well as beginning and developing writers.

What Skills are taught in WriteShop Primary?

Lessons contained WriteShop Primary A

01: Getting Started
02: Personal Writing
03: Thinking of Ideas to Write About
04: Selecting a Title
05: : Constructing a Beginning, Middle, and End
06: Using a Period at the End of a Sentence
07: Using Word Families to Write Stories with Rhyming Words
08: Using A Story Web to Organize Ideas
09: Introducing the Personal Narrative Story
10: Writing About Events in the Order They Happen

Lessons contained WriteShop Primary B

01: The Format of a Friendly Letter
02: Using Reference Tools to Check Standard Spelling
03: Choosing Theme-related Words to Write a Special Type of Poem
04: Writing with Words that Rhyme
05: Retelling a Familiar Story
06: Adding Details to Writing
07: Creating a Story with Humor
08: Writing about a Problem and Its Solution
09: Identifying the Character and the Setting in a Story
10: Organizing Different Parts of a Story

Lessons contained WriteShop Primary C

01: Using Story Ingredients to Plan a Story
02: Organizing and Planning a Mystery
03: Learning to Edit Work by Himself
04: The Personal Narrative in a Journal
05: Using Words to Describe Something
06: Using Words to Describe a Person
07: Using Words to Describe a Place
08: Writing a Summary of a Book
09: Writing a Report Without Research
10: Using Research to Write a Report

Sample Lessons

Watch Your Young Writers Blossom!

WriteShop Primary’s creative activities produce ideas and smiles! When you start teaching simple writing skills at a young age, children are less likely to fear and hate writing later on—and when fun replaces fear, their confidence will blossom.

Lessons are divided into Activity Sets to fully cover a topic without hurrying the child. Lots of examples make teaching easy for you. Each Activity Set includes time for you to model and teach writing in a relaxed, nonthreatening way.

Even at this young age, children can learn that writing is a process made up of several steps:

Planning. Familiar topics, simple graphic organizers, and gentle parent guidance help unlock your child’s creative ideas.

Writing. Children who can’t write independently yet are encouraged to dictate their stories to you. Writing assignments grow from three to five sentences in WriteShop Primary Book A to simple paragraphs and stories in Book B and Book C. Lessons build incrementally, and as children grow in skill and confidence, they are encouraged to become more independent writers, as they are able.

Editing. From the very beginning, children learn that editing is a natural part of writing. At the Primary level, most editing is done orally with guidance from you—in a gentle, encouraging way that focuses on the positive