All Products by Audra Robb

On Benchmark Literary Nonfiction Shelf, Grades 6-8

Lucy Calkins , Katie Clements , Audra Robb , Shana Frazin

Pub Date: 10/2/2018
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 6th-8th

This collection of books introduce students to nonfiction they'll love, with a unique blend of heart-rending storytelling, artful juxtaposition of subtopics, and challenging density. If you are using the Literary Nonfiction middle school reading unit, these books will support your work in the unit. Please be aware that this is a... more

Below Benchmark Literary Nonfiction Shelf, Grades 6-8

Lucy Calkins , Katie Clements , Audra Robb , Shana Frazin

Pub Date: 10/2/2018
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 6th-8th

This collection of books introduce students to nonfiction they'll love, with a unique blend of heart-rending storytelling, artful juxtaposition of subtopics, and challenging density. If you are using the Literary Nonfiction middle school reading unit, these books will support your work in the unit. Please be aware that this is a... more

Literary Nonfiction with Trade Pack

Lucy Calkins , Katie Clements , Mary Ehrenworth , Audra Robb

Pub Date: 9/12/2018
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 6th-8th

About the Unit In this unit, you’ll introduce your students to nonfiction books and media they will love, and teach them how to make the most of these portals to fascinating times, places, and people—not to escape our world, but to better understand and address its issues. The book-length nonfiction that middle schoolers will read... more

Literary Nonfiction

Lucy Calkins , Katie Clements , Mary Ehrenworth , Audra Robb

Pub Date: 9/11/2018
Product Type: Spiral
Grade: 6th-8th

About the Unit In this unit, you’ll introduce your students to nonfiction books and media they will love, and teach them how to make the most of these portals to fascinating times, places, and people—not to escape our world, but to better understand and address its issues. The book-length nonfiction that middle schoolers will read... more

On Benchmark Social Issues Book Clubs Shelf, Grades 6-8

Lucy Calkins , Mary Ehrenworth , Audra Robb , Heather Michael , Emily Strang-Campbell

Pub Date: 1/26/2018
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 6th-8th

This collection of books taps into literature’s capacity to increase our empathy for others and to be more socially aware. If you are using the Social Issues Book Clubs middle school reading unit, these books will support your work in the unit, transforming the way your students see others, showing them ways to connect, and emboldening... more

Below Benchmark Social Issues Book Clubs Shelf, Grades 6-8

Lucy Calkins , Mary Ehrenworth , Audra Robb , Heather Michael , Emily Strang-Campbell

Pub Date: 1/24/2018
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 6th-8th

This collection of books taps into literature’s capacity to increase our empathy for others and to be more socially aware. If you are using the Social Issues Book Clubs middle school reading unit, these books will support your work in the unit, transforming the way your students see others, showing them ways to connect, and emboldening... more

Social Issues Book Clubs: Reading for Empathy and Advocacy with Trade Pack

Lucy Calkins , Audra Robb , Emily Strang-Campbell

Pub Date: 1/10/2018
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 6th-8th

About the Unit The topic of social issues, the lens for reading in this unit, is a topic that matters greatly to the young human beings who enter our classrooms every day. In middle school, many kinds of issues start to weigh more heavily on students: relationship issues, school issues, and a growing awareness of larger societal... more

Social Issues Book Clubs

Lucy Calkins , Audra Robb , Emily Strang-Campbell

Pub Date: 12/20/2017
Product Type: Spiral
Grade: 6th-8th

About the Unit The topic of social issues, the lens for reading in this unit, is a topic that matters greatly to the young human beings who enter our classrooms every day. In middle school, many kinds of issues start to weigh more heavily on students: relationship issues, school issues, and a growing awareness of larger societal... more

Units of Study in Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing without TradePack (2014), Grade 6

Lucy Calkins , Teachers College Reading & Writing Project , Stacey Fell , Alexandra Marron , Kate Roberts , Kathleen Tolan , Maggie Beattie Roberts , Emily Strang-Campbell , Audra Robb , Gerrit Jones-Rooy

Pub Date: 6/13/2014
Product Type: Boxed Set
Grade: 6th-6th

About the Grade 6 Units Sixth-grade writing begins with Personal Narrative: Crafting Powerful Life Stories. This unit helps students draw on their lives, learning strategies to generate meaningful story ideas, manage pace, elaborate on important scenes, and deepen insights. This unit especially emphasizes the importance of setting... more

Units of Study in Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing without TradePack (2014), Grade 7

Lucy Calkins , Teachers College Reading & Writing Project , M. Colleen Cruz , Audra Robb , Kelly Boland Hohne , Annie Taranto , Gerrit Jones-Rooy

Pub Date: 6/13/2014
Product Type: Boxed Set
Grade: 7th-7th

About the Grade 7 Units Seventh graders relish their growing sense of control over their own lives and their sense of agency. In this first unit of the year, Writing Realistic Fiction: Symbolism, Syntax, and Truth, students write engaging short fiction. They lift the sophistication of their writing through attention to individual... more