Learn age-appropriate, instructional tools to effectively teach your youngest (K-2) students the foundational skills they need to become strong writers. You’ll be introduced to the developmental stages of writing, learn to teach your students how to identify genre and author’s purpose, and develop the foundational skills of narrative, informational and opinion writing. Through this training, you will gain confidence in your writing instruction, and develop the writing/reading connection for your students across all content areas.

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    • 6 Oct 2026
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Zoom classroom - Central Time
    Register

    WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

    K-1: Ready, Set, Write: From Daily Sentences to Foundational Skill

    If you were wondering how to use the Getting Ready to Write Guide and our Sentence-A-Day resource side-by-side, this is the workshop for you. Come discover “what to do” and “how to do it” in our new edition to the K-1, 6-hour training experience.  Encounter the perfect partnership between skill-building and sentence structure with a focus on explicit instruction in writing for younger learners. Teachers will learn to model how to generate ideas, organize thinking, and understand what good writing looks like. Along with skill building, the workshop now includes ways to strengthen sentence structure through Sentence-A-Day, a powerful component that only takes minutes a day. Join us in this parallel approach to foundational skill-building and beginning grammar and mechanics. 

    HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

    Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection

    • Understanding EW’s Methodology and How it Creates Writing Success
    • Recognizing Genre and Author’s Purpose (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative genre; inform vs. entertain purpose)
    •  Summarizing Text
    •  Inspiring Rich Vocabulary Development
    • Introduction to Sentence-A-Day

    Part 2– Foundational Skills for Narrative Writing

    • Identifying Story-Critical Elements Worthy of Description
    •  Engaging the Five Senses to Create Vivid Elaboration
    •  Generating Elaborative Detail -
    •  Exploring “What Do Feelings Look Like?” 
    •  Crafting Suspenseful Segments  
    • Connecting the skills of Narrative Writing to Sentence-A-Day.
    Part 3– Foundational Skills of Informational and Opinion Writing
    • Sorting Details for Informational Writing

    • Creating Diagrams to Inform

    •  Writing Informational Sentences

    •  Exploring Opinion Writing

    •  Summarizing Opinion Pieces

    • Linking Informational/Opinion Writing with Sentence-A-Day

    WHAT YOU GET: 

    • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction with A Sentence A Day (taught by Master Educators)
    • Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
    • Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
    • Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)
    • Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.


      • 5 Nov 2026
      • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
      • Zoom classroom - Central Time
      Register

      WHO: Teachers, Grades K-1 

      K-1: Ready, Set, Write: From Daily Sentences to Foundational Skill

      If you were wondering how to use the Getting Ready to Write Guide and our Sentence-A-Day resource side-by-side, this is the workshop for you. Come discover “what to do” and “how to do it” in our new edition to the K-1, 6-hour training experience.  Encounter the perfect partnership between skill-building and sentence structure with a focus on explicit instruction in writing for younger learners. Teachers will learn to model how to generate ideas, organize thinking, and understand what good writing looks like. Along with skill building, the workshop now includes ways to strengthen sentence structure through Sentence-A-Day, a powerful component that only takes minutes a day. Join us in this parallel approach to foundational skill-building and beginning grammar and mechanics. 

      HOW THE TRAINING BREAKS OUT:

      Part 1– Genre and Organization – Creating the Writing/Reading Connection

      • Understanding EW’s Methodology and How it Creates Writing Success
      • Recognizing Genre and Author’s Purpose (e.g., Informational vs. Narrative genre; inform vs. entertain purpose)
      •  Summarizing Text
      •  Inspiring Rich Vocabulary Development
      • Introduction to Sentence-A-Day

      Part 2– Foundational Skills for Narrative Writing

      • Identifying Story-Critical Elements Worthy of Description
      •  Engaging the Five Senses to Create Vivid Elaboration
      •  Generating Elaborative Detail -
      •  Exploring “What Do Feelings Look Like?” 
      •  Crafting Suspenseful Segments  
      • Connecting the skills of Narrative Writing to Sentence-A-Day.
      Part 3– Foundational Skills of Informational and Opinion Writing
      • Sorting Details for Informational Writing

      • Creating Diagrams to Inform

      •  Writing Informational Sentences

      •  Exploring Opinion Writing

      •  Summarizing Opinion Pieces

      • Linking Informational/Opinion Writing with Sentence-A-Day

      WHAT YOU GET: 

      • 6 hours of K-1 Getting Ready to Write instruction with A Sentence A Day (taught by Master Educators)
      • Certificate of Attendance for 6-hours of Professional Development
      • Online Access to the Recording of this Live Zoom Workshop: 7-days of online access available following your attendance to this LIVE Zoom workshop.
      • Register Today to hold your spot!  Whether paying by credit card now, or using a check/PO for payment later, you can be sure your seat is secure now, so that you won’t miss this valuable training to enhance your writing instruction.  (Note registration window closes approximately 24 hours prior to the training time)
      • Print guides are available for purchase in our Bookstore.


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      This is a 6 hour recorded workshop with our trainers. Start, pause, restart and stop all on your own time, on your own schedule. You will have access to this recording for 14 days upon payment from either a PO or Credit Card.

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