Seesaw Writing with Wiley Blevins & Friends
A full suite of engaging, standards-aligned lessons to build confident K-5 writers, taught by their favorite authors
Seesaw Writing with Wiley Blevins & Friends
A full suite of engaging, standards-aligned lessons to build confident K-5 writers, taught by their favorite authors
Strengthen K-5 writing instruction with insights from your students' favorite authors
Seesaw Writing with Wiley Blevins & Friends is a curriculum of over 750 activities, mentor author videos, and scaffolded supports that guide students through every stage of the writing process.
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Flexible
Supplement any curriculum while helping teachers deliver consistent, high-quality instruction -
Research-Based
Support learners with intentional activities based on the Writing Rope pedagogical framework (Sedita, 2023) -
Standards-Aligned
Aligned to state and Common Core standards in the US for holistic implementation
A Comprehensive K-5 Writing Program
Lessons cover essential reading, writing, and language standards, from sentence structure and grammar to constructed response and genre writing. Learners build crucial skills like peer review, revising, test prep, and metacognitive reflection on their writing process.
Author Instructional Videos
Renowned authors provide a peek behind the curtain by sharing writing tips and tricks through engaging, informative instructional videos
Sentence Writing
Practice sentence-level conventions, including:
- Identifying and using various parts of speech
- Writing, correcting, expanding, and combining sentences
- Addressing common issues, capitalization, and punctuation
Genre Writing
Develop narrative, informational, and opinion writing assignments by engaging with the full writing process. This process is broken down into five intentional phases for student practice:
- Think
- Plan
- Write
- Revise
- Edit
Constructed Responses
Leverage leveled texts and writing prompts to support students with writing in response to reading and prepare them for state and district testing.
- Performance Writing
- Summary Tasks
Functional Writing
Utilize templates to support daily, functional, and creative writing tasks. These templates enable students to:
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Write for Self
Lists, notes, journaling, and more -
Write for Others
Formal and informal emails, messages, letters, cards, presentations, and more
Meet the Experts
Lessons in Seesaw Writing with Wiley Blevins & Friends feature instructional mentor videos from beloved children’s authors. Watch and learn as experts take students firsthand into how they use skills like vivid verbs and revising in their writing every day, with clear and accessible examples.
Dr. Wiley Blevins
An author, consultant, and researcher, Wiley Blevins, Ed.D., has taught in the U.S. and South America and written over 17 books for teachers. He has authored phonics and reading programs and the International Literacy Association brief on early literacy phonics instruction.
Wiley has also written over 100 children’s books and is SVP and Associate Publisher at Reycraft Books, focusing on under-represented authors and illustrators. His current work emphasizes adaptive technology, differentiated professional development, and children’s literature.
Kwame Alexander
Author of The Crossover and The Undefeated
Traci N. Todd
Author of Make a Pretty Sound
Joseph Bruchac
Author of Dawn Land
Debbi Michiko Florence
Author of Last Chance Academy
…and many more!
The Research Behind the Magic
Expert-driven instructional design principles ensure that every Seesaw Writing lesson is impactful and research-based.
Universal Design for Learning
Mentor authors model writing skills and share expert tips through accessible video and audio formats. Students respond flexibly with voice, photos, drawings, handwriting, video, typing, and more. Lessons provide multiple means of engagement via writing prompts and options to apply focus skills to current projects.
Intentional Skill Building with Sedita's Writing Rope
Students analyze mentor texts to learn critical thinking, syntax, text structure, writing craft, and transcription, aligning with the Writing Rope (Sedita, 2023).
Guided, partner, and independent practice activities include auto-graded assessments for immediate feedback on developing writing skills. Seesaw facilitates peer, self, and teacher feedback through sentence frames and reflection.
Expert-Driven Instruction that Gets Kids
Dr. Wiley Blevins and his author friends create an engaged, inclusive writing community, sharing tips and examples while using proven practices like supporting oral language and scaffolding higher-order thinking to improve elementary writing instruction (Graham et al., 2018; Kim & Graham, 2022).
Authors model drawing from real life to craft various text types. Dr. Blevins acts as a powerful co-teacher, explicitly teaching grammar skills (e.g., parts of speech, sentence types, expansion, word ordering) through engaging mentor texts and instructional videos.
Common Core Alignment
Aligned with state and Common Core standards, Seesaw Writing ensures that students are intentionally practicing skills essential to becoming strong writers. Read more about how below.
Webinar Series
Writing About Reading with Wiley Blevins
Join literacy expert Wiley Blevins for a 2-part webinar series designed to support both classroom practice and schoolwide planning.
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April 23, 2026 | Integrating Reading and Writing: Constructed Responses
Learn how writing in response to text strengthens comprehension, builds analysis skills, and supports test readiness without teaching to the test. -
May 6, 2026 | Empowering Teachers with Research-Based Writing Instruction
Explore how Seesaw Writing supports clear, research-based instruction aligned to the Writing Rope, with a live demo of lessons designed for consistency across classrooms and schools.
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Unlock over 750 engaging, standards-aligned activities to build comprehensive K-5 writing skills