Best Selling Books by Lucy Calkins

The Units of Study for Teaching Reading Trade Book Pack provides the nine mentor texts referenced in the units of study. The trade book pack includes: 5 Fiction Books * Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen * Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles * Number the Stars by Lois Lowry * Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo * Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner 4 Nonfiction Books * Cactus Hotel by Brenda Guiberson * Secrets of the Mummies by Harriet Griffey * The Life Cycle of Emperor Penguins by Bobbie Kalman * The Penguin by Beatrice Fontanel

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

Part of a series of primary writing units within a yearlong curriculum

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

Part of a collection of units within a year-long primary writing curriculum

Part of a collection of primary-writing units for a year-long curriculum.

Originally published as part of the bestselling series: Units of study in opinion/argument, information, and narrative writing [Grades K-8].

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

"These reading units guide fifth graders toward intellectual independence. In Unit 1 students practice close reading, noting how authors develop themes in fictional works. Unit 2 deals with higher-level nonfiction and emphasizes strong foundational skills, such as fluency and word solving. The third unit has kids read complex nonfiction under the umbrella of argument and advocacy. In the final unit students explore fantasy bookclubs."--Publisher website.

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

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

"This book is designed to be used in tandem with the Unit of Study books themselves. Your unit of study book will help you lead conferences and small groups that are closely aligned to your minilesson and that address youngsters who are working roughly at grade-level. To help you access the instructional supports that you need, this book is organized into five chapters: Maintaining Essential Workshop Routines, Supporting Foundational Skills, Lifting the Level of Students'' Narrative Writing, Lifting the Level of Students'' Opinion Writing, Lifting the Level of Students'' Information Writing"--

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

"The new Units of study in phonics provide a lean and concise instructional pathway in phonics that is realistic and doable, and that taps into kids'' skills and energy for tackling the fabulous challenge of learning to read and write, introduce high-leverage phonics concepts and strategies in a way that keeps pace with students'' reading and writing and helps them understand when, how, and why they can use phonics to read and write, offer delightfully fun and engaging storylines, classroom mascots, songs, chants, rhymes, and games to help students fall head over heels in love with phonics and to create a joyous community of learners, align with state-of-the-art reading and writing workshops for a coherent approach in which terminology, tools, rituals, and methods are shared in ways that benefit both teachers and kids."--provided by publisher.

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