New Releases by Lucy Calkins

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.

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.--

""If the writing workshop is always changing, always haphazard, children remain pawns waiting for their teacher''s agenda. For this reason and others, I think it is so important for each day''s workshop to have a clear, simple structure. Children should know what to expect. This allows them to carry on; it frees the teacher from choreographing activities and allows time for listening. How we structure the workshop is less important than that we structure it." "" "-Lucy Calkins Learn how to take your students from pictorial story telling into fluent writing and how Lucy Calkins and her colleagues launch a rigorous and responsive primary writing workshop. Through 2 foundational books-"The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing" and "Launching the Writing Workshop"-and eight online video clips, Lucy and her colleagues provide the strategies, lesson plans, and tools you''ll need to jump in and teach writing to your students in powerful, lasting ways. "The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing" equips you to teach a productive, well-managed writing workshop, introduces you to the methods that underlie all writing instruction, and helps you plan a yearlong curriculum in the teaching of writing. In addition to guiding you through the classroom systems and teaching structures that are the foundation of a primary writing workshop, this comprehensive overview also includes chapters about working within developmental stages of writing, supporting English language learners, and assessing writers. Whether you have taught in a writing workshop for years or are just learning the term, "Launching the Writing Workshop" will offer you a comprehensive plan for the first four weeks of a primary writing workshop. Lucy and Leah Mermelstein present both the precise language and pacing of their teaching and the reasoning behind it, so that you can create the same powerful experiences with your own children. Whether writers write just a few labels on items in their pictures or write paragraphs, by the end of this unit all children know that in order to write, a writer fills him or herself with an idea, plans how the text will go, and then draws and writes as best he and she can, working to make the page match the writer''s vision. The eight accompanying video clips convey the inner workings of writing workshops in a variety of primary classrooms. These live-from-the-classroom video clips are supported and enhanced by an optional voice-over coaching commentary from Lucy that explains the teaching moves and strategies. (Video clips are free for 6 months upon registration. You must register within 6 months of purchase.) Learn more about these resources and the series at "www.unitsofstudy.com"."" This pack is part of "first"hand''s "Getting Started" series. Bridging the gap between educational theory and practice, "first"hand classroom materials model the carefully crafted techniques and language of master teachers in ways that help teachers refine their practice and reinvent their own teaching. The most comprehensive of these resources span more than a year of instruction. "First"hand''s" Getting Started Packs" were created for teachers in training and professional book study groups who want a compact, affordable way to study and tryout these transformative classroom materials. Each "Getting Started Pack" includes an overview book, a complete unit of study, online video clips provided free of charge for 6 months, and an accompanying study guide. Getting Started packs include: ""Launch a Primary Writing Workshop, " "Grades K-2; Launch an Intermediate Writing Workshop, Grades 3-5; ""Launch an Intermediate Reading Workshop, " "Grades 3-5; ""Introduce the Qualities of Writing, "" Grades 3-6; ""Monitor Comprehension with Primary Students, "" Grades K-2; ""Monitor Comprehension with Intermediate Students, "" Grades 3-6; ""Investigate the Number System, "" Grades K-3; ""Investigate Multiplication, "" Grades 3-5; Investigate Fractions, Grades 4-6.

Organized around the school calendar, the ten chapters in "A principal''s guide to leadership in the teaching of writing" walk principals through the month-by-month demands involved in organizing and implementing whole-school reform in the teaching of writing. From back cover.

"Through this instructional DVD, Lucy Calkins and her colleagues open the doors of their classrooms and invite you to eavesdrop on their elementary writing workshops. Carefully correlated to each of the units of study in Grades 3-5, two hours of live-from-the classroom video clips walk you through an entire year of instruction and allow you to observe how Lucy Calkins initiates minilessons and teaches writing strategies; listen in on conferences and small group instruction; study the structures and rituals that characterize a well-managed writing workshop. Each video clip is supported by an optional voice-over coaching commentary from Lucy that explains the teaching moves and strategies."--Publisher.

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.

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.

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

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

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 year-long curriculum of units about primary writing

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