Best Selling Books by Lucy Calkins

A story of one child''s growth in writing, Lessons from a Child explains how teachers can work with children, helping them to teach themselves and each other. Matters of classroom management, methods for helping children to use the peer conference, and ways mini-lessons can extend children''s understanding of good writing are all covered here. Most important, the sequences of writing development and growth are thoroughly discussed.

Contains ideas for teaching reading and writing in the K-12 curriculum that include qualities of good writing, introducing literature, and rethinking of the writing workshop.

Lucy Calkins has written a book with the goal of creating lifelong readers. The Art of Teaching Reading offers educators a multifaceted reading program supported by word study, guided reading, book talks, and other ongoing structures to produce impassioned readers. Through years of research, the author provides a myriad of ideas to help young readers discover their own joy of reading and love of books. This text focuses on the big picture of reading instruction and explores the goals of reading programs. It also provides information on comprehending and responding to text through synthesis, critique, writing, and other effective strategies for understanding. For teachers or future teachers or educators.

"An outstanding publication on the latest developments in writing instruction."--Language Arts

Lucy Calkins & her Colleagues Take Writing Instruction to a Higher Level Is Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5 aligned with Units of Study for Primary Writing (K-2) ? Yes! These 2 resources are perfectly aligned! While offering a greater level of sophistication and a whole new set of units, Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5 employs many of the same features that made Units of Study for Primary Writing so effective and popular. Both series are built around sequential units of study representing 4 to 6 weeks of instruction. Each unit of study contains 15 to 18 sessions. And each of these sessions is built on a coherent framework of regular features that include: an introduction a 10-minute minilesson recommendations for conferring share time suggestions for tailoring the lessons suggest homework and more! In addition, instruction in both series is supported by a side-column rich with Lucy''s coaching commentary and samples of real student work. Most importantly, both series were developed, piloted and refined by Lucy Calkins and her colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. What special features are included in this resource? Each session has one of three new features: Mechanics emphasizes the important language conventions that readers expect, and that students need to master to become effective writers. Assessment helps teachers look at a piece of writing with a growth line in mind, name what the child can do, and plan the next instructional step. Collaborating with Colleagues offers ideas for building a community of weriting instructors to help support and refine your practice. In addition, a new Homework and a special "In Your Class..." section help you tailor the minilessons even more carefully to the specific needs of your students.

Here the nationally acclaimed educator who transformed the way our children learn to read and write in school shows us how to nurture our children''s imagination at home, from the earliest days of babytalk to the time when we see them off to school. Drawing upon her influential philosophy of active learning, as well as her personal experience as a parent, Calkins shows parents how to stimulate curiosity and spark creative thinking in children. Having an open and creative approach to conversations, chores, and games can matter just as much as reading, writing, and math. And even in traditional skills like reading and writing, we need to encourage our children to read for meaning and write for expression, rather than focus only on mechanics like phonics and spelling.By giving parents new and imaginative techniques for educating children, and by providing them with an insider''s view of what goes on in the early grades, Raising Lifelong Learners creates the ultimate partnership in learning between home and school, parents and teachers.

Provides comprehensive and accessible leveled lists and guides for 1,200 children''s trade books for kindergarten through 6th grade to help teachers build classroom libraries.

Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Reading and Writing Project have helped thousands of educators design their own pathways to the Common Core. Now, with Pathways to the Common Core, they are ready to help you find your way. Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the Common Core, Pathways to the Common Core will help you: understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don''t say; recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards; identify how the Common Core''s infrastructure supports a spiraling K-12 literacy curriculum; and scrutinize the context in which the CCSS were written and are being unrolled. In addition to offering an analytical study of the standards, this guide will also help you and your colleagues implement the standards in ways that lift the level of teaching and learning throughout your school.--

Lucy Calkins knows one of the most powerful ways to support good writers: clear, purposeful writing conferences.

This book reflects the authors'' belief that in order to be less victimized by tests, we need to be more knowledgeable about them.

This CD models effective conferring practices and creates a forum to reflect on this crucial strategy in the teaching of primary writers.

This series of books is designed to help upper elementary teachers teach a rigourous yearlong writing curriculum.

Part of a series of units for primary writing: a yearlong curriculum.

Part of a series of units as part of a year-long curriculum based in primary writing.

Part of a year-long curriculum made up of primary-writing units

Part of a series of units which make up a year-long curriculum about primary writing.

Part of a year-long curriculum of units about primary writing

"The Supporting All Readers: High-Leverage Small Groups and Conferences, K-2 book will be an invaluable resource as you meet the needs of a range of learners in your classroom. If, for example, your assessments reveal that some of your first graders still need work solidifying their knowledge of letter-sound correspondence, you''ll find a collection of work times and tools you can draw on to provide needed support. Similarly, if you find that students are ready to retell their fiction books in more sophisticated ways, you''ll find a collection of small groups and conferences that lift the level of kids'' retelling based on knowledge of story structure and lessons learned. We''re confident you''ll draw on this book often to support your whole-class teaching, as well as to meet the needs of students through one-on-one and small-group reading interventions"--

"There are five Units of Study in Reading for each grade level, and each unit represents four to six weeks of teaching. The units are the heart of the series. In each unit of study, you will learn a rich repertoire of ways to provide focused and explicit instruction on a specific set of skills and strategies. This is unit 1 of the series is intended for Grade 1"--

"The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten. In the first unit, Building Good Reading Habits, you''ll reinforce children''s learning from kindergarten, and you''ll establish ability-based partnerships that tap into the social power of peers working together to help each other become more strategic as readers. The second unit, Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction, taps into children''s natural curiosity as they explore nonfiction, while you teach comprehension strategies, word solving, vocabulary, fluency, and author''s craft. The third unit, Readers Have Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension, focuses on the reading process to set children up to read increasingly complex texts. The last unit of first grade, Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons: A Study of Story Elements, spotlights story elements and the skills that are foundational to literal and inferential comprehension, including empathy, imagination, envisioning, prediction, character study, and interpretation"--provided by publisher.

"An introduction to teaching phonics within Units of Study for the kindergarten grade level. Introduces concepts such as high-frequency words, initial letter words, and syllables and how to teach in a workshop model with student success"--