All Products by Katie Wears

Units of Study in Phonics, Grade K

Lucy Calkins , Natalie Louis , Amanda Hartman , Rachel Rothman-Perkins , Rebecca Cronin , Allyse Bader , Angela Báez , Katie Wears , Casey Maxwell , Valerie Geschwind , Sarah Picard Taylor , Christine Holley , Emma Coufal Bemowski , Laurie Pessah , Teachers College Reading & Writing Project

Pub Date: 6/30/2022
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: K-K

About the Series The Units of Study in Phonics: provide an 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’... more

Level G Shelf, Grade 1

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 1st-1st

The Level G collection introduces students to a wider range of texts, including simple animal fantasy and realistic fiction. These books require children to integrate all sources of information while reading to understand the author’s story or message. There is minimal repetition of familiar sentence patterns, requiring children... more

Level H Shelf, Grade 1

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 1st-1st

These Level H books contain more complex literary language, more complex vocabulary, and often more technical vocabulary, especially in informational books. Picture support is minimal and requires readers to make clear mental images and connections to their own experiences in life or in other books. These Level H books have less... more

Level C Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

These Level C books require readers to rely on a growing knowledge of letters and sounds. The pictures are less supportive, and the sentences are longer, and the child’s growing bank of known words helps her move across those longer sentences with more ease, able to think about the meaning and the beginning sounds.  The books in... more

Level D Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

These Level D books require readers to look at the letters at the beginnings and the endings of words, using the sounds those letters make to check that they have read the word correctly. These books have a pattern, but the pattern may be different on the first page and on the last page, so that it is just the internal part of the... more

Level E Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

In the books on the Level E shelf, the illustrations are less supportive, the sentences are more complex, and the patterns in the books shift part way through them. Children reading these books need to draw on many sources of information, including the text’s meaning and the syntax. These Level E books contain more literary language... more

Level F Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

The Level F books often contain several episodes, which the reader needs to keep in mind and blend together into a coherent storyline. Characters are more developed, and readers are expected to draw inferences about characters. The language is more challenging, and there is far less repetition in sentences. The literary language... more

Level G Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

The Level G collection introduces students to a wider range of texts, including simple animal fantasy, and realistic fiction. These books require children to integrate all sources of information while reading to understand the author’s story or message. There is minimal repetition of familiar sentence patterns, requiring children... more

Level H Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

These Level H books contain more complex literary language, more complex vocabulary, and often more technical vocabulary, especially in informational books. Picture support is minimal and requires readers to make clear mental images and connections to their own experiences in life or in other books. These Level H books have less... more

Level I Shelf, Grade 2, Below Benchmark

Lucy Calkins , Molly Picardi , Katie Wears

Pub Date: 12/6/2016
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 2nd-2nd

The Level I shelf contains longer  books and some short chapter books. Students must develop skill in accumulating information across a story. These Level I books contain more complex literary language, more complex vocabulary, and often more technical vocabulary, especially in informational books. The Level I books have minimal... more