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GRADE 2 ✦ WRITING
The How-To Guide for Nonfiction Writing
Valerie Geschwind & Jennifer DeSutter
This accessible unit welcomes second-graders into the world of nonfiction writing
by rallying them to write lots of little books on anything they know a lot about—
soccer, an ice cream shop, ladybugs—in ways that teach their reader about the
topic. This unit helps students feel that puffed-up pride of being an expert and taps
into their eagerness to show and tell, channeling them to write with details and
writerly craft.
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Unit Overview
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The unit begins with students writing nonfiction chapter books and then builds in
sophistication, ending with students taking all
they’ve learned over the course of the unit and
writing different kinds of nonfiction books,
with transference and independence as key
goals.
Fit with the Core Units of Study
The How-To Guide for Nonfiction Writing gives
students the opportunity to lift the level of
their nonfiction writing before diving into
writing about science in Unit 2: Lab Reports
and Science Books in The Units of Study in
Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing
series. If you are also teaching the Units
of Study for Teaching Reading series, you
might choose to teach this unit alongside
Unit 2, Becoming Experts: Reading Nonfiction.
Whenever possible, it is helpful to make
these reading-writing connections for your
students.
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BEND I session 1 session 2 session 3 session 4 session 5 Writing Lots of Nonfiction Books Quickly
Launching the Big Work of Nonfiction Writing in Accessible Ways
Learning from the Experts: Noticing, Naming, and Trying Out Craft Moves
in Nonfiction Books
Nonfiction Writers Squeeze Their Brains: Writing Long to Teach Readers a
Lot of Information
Writers Set Goals and Make Plans
A Trip to the Editor: Preparing for a “Meet the Author” Celebration
Writing for an Audience
Nonfiction Writers Consider What Information Their Audience Wants to Know
session 7 Helping Readers Picture Information
session 8 Nonfiction Writers Aim to Hook an Audience’s Interest . . . Right from the Start!
session 9 Writers Do More Than One Thing at Once: Making Writing Interesting and
Keeping One’s Audience in Mind
session 10 Clearing Up Confusion: Answering Readers’ Questions
session 11 Setting Goals to Make Nonfiction Books Better
session 12 Editing Nonfiction Writing: Fixing Up Spelling Mistakes for Readers
session 13 Fancying Up Nonfiction Books for an Audience: Adding Final Touches
BEND II session 6 BEND III Writing Nonfiction Books of All Kinds
session 14 Writing Nonfiction Books of All Kinds
session 15 Leaning on Authors as Mentors
session 16 Writers Use Reminders to Craft New Books
session 17 Partners Lend a Hand: Offering Feedback from One Nonfiction Writer to Another
session 18 Planning for the Final Celebration
session 19 Holding a Learning Expo: A Celebration of Nonfiction Authors and Their Work
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GRADE 1 ✦ READING
Word Detectives
Strategies for Using High-Frequency Words
and for Decoding
Elizabeth Franco & Havilah Jespersen
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This unit taps into the power of play as students move into reading increasingly
complex texts with new words to solve on every page. What better way to rally
your students to this challenging work than to turn to them and say, “Let’s play
word detectives and use everything we know to work hard and solve all the tricky
words in our books!”? Then watch as your students transform themselves into the
kinds of readers you imagine they can be—all the while learning so much more
about the process of reading.
Unit Overview
The first bend of this unit has children learning to become word detectives, being
alert for difficult words, using what they know to solve those words, and checking
their attempts. In the second bend, students are
ready to officially become word detectives, able
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to draw on prior knowledge, increase their bank
BEND I Word Detectives in Training
of high-frequency words, and use known words
session 1 Word Detectives Are Always on the Lookout
to help figure out unknown words. The final
session 2 Word Detectives Look Closely
bend focuses on ways that readers look closely
session 3 Word Detectives Use Everything They Know
at words and use visual information effectively.
session 4 Word Detectives Check Their Words Slowly
You will teach children to use their phonics
session 5 Readers Investigate What Makes a Good Reading Partner
knowledge to solve words in continuous text,
as well as using knowledge of common spelling
BEND II Word Detectives Tap into the Power of Snap Words
patterns, contractions, and compound words.
session 6 Word Detectives Read Words in a Snap
Throughout the unit, you’ll also ask children to
session 7 Word Detectives Use Snap Words as Clues to Think about What Makes Sense
develop their fluency skills.
session 8 Word Detectives Solve Mystery Words by Thinking of Similar Snap Words
session 9 Word Detectives Turn New Words into Snap Words
session 10 Word Detectives Scoop Up Words to Make Their Reading Sound Smooth
BEND III Word Detectives Take an Even Closer Look: Using Knowledge
of Letters, Sounds, and Words to Read
session 11 Word Detectives Break Words into Parts
session 12 Word Detectives Pay Special Attention to the Beginning of Words
session 13 Word Detectives Watch Out for Endings
session 14 Word Detectives Don’t Let Vowels Trip Them Up
session 15 Word Detectives Use Word Parts They Know to Read New Words
session 16 Word Detectives Watch Out for Unusual Words
session 17 Word Detectives Smooth Out Their Reading
session 18 Word Detectives Show Off Their Skills: A Celebration
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Fit with the Core Units of Study
You will likely want to teach this unit fairly early
in your first-grade year after setting up the routines and structures laid out in Unit 1, Building
Good Reading Habits from the Units of Study
for Teaching Reading. This unit will be helpful
if you have many students who would benefit
from additional instruction with foundational
reading skills such as learning to monitor their
reading; developing efficient word-solving skills
that consistently use meaning, structure, and
visual information; expanding their knowledge
of phonics and its application in context; and
strengthening fluency.
GRADE 3 ✦ READING
Mystery
Foundational Skills in Disguise
Brooke Geller & Alissa Reicherter
Your students will be so excited to read mysteries that they’ll leap at the chance to
do the work required to solve the mystery. This genre naturally supports close and
inferential reading as students notice clues and think, “What could this detail suggest?” When youngsters weigh whether this or that character could be a suspect,
they do the deep thinking about characters’ traits and motivations. Mysteries also
teach readers to synthesize as they consider whether something that happens in
Chapter 7 perhaps relates back to a question that was raised in Chapter 4. And
many mysteries are part of a series, written to lure readers to move from one book
to another.
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Unit Overview
In the first bend of this unit, students will read several mysteries, each time working hard to solve the mystery. In the second bend,
you’ll shift students from thinking about each
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individual mystery to considering patterns across
mysteries. Then in bend three, the unit will take a
BEND I Understanding the Mystery
turn. Students will now read any fiction, no longer
session 1 Whodunit? Drawing on All We Know about Solving Mysteries to Read Mysteries
necessarily choosing only mysteries. You’ll teach
session 2 Mystery Readers Try to Solve the Mystery before the Crime Solver Does
them that they can apply all they have learned
session 3 Mystery Readers Do a Special Kind of Predicting: Suspects, Opportunities,
and Motives
to do as mystery readers to any fiction book they
session
4
When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Need Strategies
happen to be reading.
session 5
Fit with the Core Units of Study
We believe that third-graders will benefit from
starting their year with two units that emphasize
fiction reading. We imagine this unit following
Unit 1, Building a Reading Life, in The Units of
Study for Teaching Reading series. It can, alternatively, be taught anytime in the spring. If you
teach a class of readers who are reading considerably below benchmark levels, you may decide
to wait and teach it once your kids’ skills have
developed a bit so they have access to more
books.
Thoughtful Writing and Talking about Reading
Mystery Readers, Like Crime Solvers, Often Collaborate with Partners to
Solve Mysteries
session 7 Holding Onto the Mystery, Even When the Book Is Long and Tricky
session 6
BEND II Raising the Level of Mystery Reading
session 8
session 9
session 10
session 11
session 12
session 13
session 14
How Mystery Books Go: Patterns and Common Characteristics
Reading On, Influenced by Knowing How Mysteries Usually Go
Raising the Level of Partner Talk
The Red Herring: Throwing Readers and Detectives Off the Right Track
Finding Hidden Clues
What Kind of Mind-Work Does This Mystery Want the Reader to Do?
Self-Assessment, Goals, and Practice!
BEND III Reading Mysteries Can Help You Read Any Kind of Fiction
session 15
Readers Apply the Work of One Kind of Fiction to All Fiction
Fiction Readers Solve Mysteries that Relate to Character and Plot
session 17 Using Clues to Drive Predictions
session 18Celebration
session 16
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GRADE 5 ✦ WRITING
Literary Essay
Opening Texts and Seeing More
Katie Clements & Mike Ochs
This unit presents students with a crystal clear path to help them craft structured
literary essays. Across the unit, you’ll teach students strategies to read analytically and grow strong interpretations grounded in the text. You’ll help them craft
claims and develop them across their essays, drawing on varied techniques to
do so. This unit prepares students to read, reread, and rethink the text in increasingly sophisticated ways—to notice things they might otherwise pass by and
to have new and original thoughts about it—skills that
are important, not only for high-stakes tests, but also
for other challenging academic work students will do
throughout their lives.
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Contents
BEND I session 1
session 2
session 3
session 4
session 5
Crafting a Literary Essay around a Shared Text
Inquiry into Essay
Growing Ideas Means Reading with a Writerly Wide-Awakeness
Trying On Various Theses for Size
Angling Mini-Stories to Support a Point
Flash-Drafting a Literary Essay
BEND II Lifting the Level of Interpretive Essay
session 6
session 7
session 8
session 9
session 10
session 11
session 12
session 13
(and Writing One from Start to Finish)
Writing to Grow Ideas
Analyzing How Characters Respond to Trouble
Developing Stronger Thesis Statements
Choosing and Setting Up Quotes
Supporting a Claim with an Analysis of Craft
Beginnings and Endings
Editing Seminar Stations
Celebration
BEND III Writing for Transfer: Carrying What You Know about
session 14
session 15
session 16
session 17
session 18
session 19
Literary Essay Across Your Day, Your Reading, Your Life
Transferring What You Know to Any Opinion Text
Tackling Any Challenges that Come Your Way
Logically Ordering Reasons and Evidence
Applying Your Past Learning to Today’s Work
Analyzing Writing and Goal-Setting
Becoming Essay Ambassadors
Unit Overview
While this unit is ultimately a writing unit, know that
you will also strengthen your students’ reading skills. In
the first bend in the unit, students learn to read closely
and carefully, and to pay attention to the details in their
texts that carry significance. Then, as the unit continues,
students shift their focus to interpretation, developing
deeper ideas about the lessons and themes in their texts.
Fit with the Core Units of Study
This unit provides a solid foundation for the opinionwriting students will do in Units 3 and 4 in The Units of
Study for Teaching Opinion, Information, and Narrative
Writing series. In addition, you can teach this unit after
Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes in The Units
of Study for Teaching Reading series. You will find many
opportunities to reference teaching points and charts from
that unit to support students in their new writing work.
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