Units of Study in Writing
Each of the four Units of Study in Writing for each grade level offers a sequenced set of daily sessions that invite students along a path of writing development in one of three genres: narrative, information or explanation, and opinion or argument writing.
Additional Resources Included
In addition to the units themselves, the resources in this bundle include:
A Guide to the Writing Workshop, K–2
This book provides an overview of the essentials of a writing workshop, helps teachers with all-important methods, introduces practical management tips, and guides teachers to lead powerful writing workshops.
Supporting All Writers: High-Leverage Small Groups and Conferences, K–2
This book supplements the units, providing teachers with easy access to ready-to-teach small groups and conferences around major writing goals. It includes work times that especially support children who are either below or above benchmark, ensuring that all children progress along a trajectory of development.
Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, K–2
This book contains the assessment system for the K–2 writing units. In it, teachers will find a chapter overviewing writing development, plus assessments, checklists, exemplar texts, and annotated benchmark pieces of writing, at each level for all three genres.
Access to Online Resources
The online resources provide digital access to all the printed books in the core units of study set (Units, Guides, et cetera) along with a rich array of resources to support each unit. These resources include downloadable versions of charts, handouts, book lists, exemplar texts, supports for Spanish-speaking students, and more, all arranged sessionby session to streamline each day’s preparation.
Anchor Chart Sticky Notes
The Anchor Chart Sticky Notes feature each day’s teaching point to help teachers create and evolve anchor charts across the units.
Units of Study in Writing Trade Book Pack
This bundle includes grade-level appropriate books that teachers use as demonstration texts to model the skills and strategies they want students to try. A representative sampling of the Grade 1 texts includes::
- Cake by Hareem Atif Khan
- Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
- Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
- Now You Know How It Works by Valorie Fisher
- Yasmin The Chef by Saadia Faruqi
- Yasmin The Superhero by Saadia Faruqi
- Yasmin The Teacher by Saadia Faruqi
Coming: Spanish-language Trade Book Packs.
Additional Resources Not Included
Out of the Box Units
Coming soon, the Out of the Box Unitswill offer teachers the opportunity to customize their yearlong sequence by adding a fifth unit to their core units sets.
Premium Digital Content—Annual Subscriptions
The minilesson videos in the Premium DigitalSubscriptions for grades K–2 are designed to serve as valuable exemplars for effective, concise, and engaging minilessons, exemplars that can help teachers lift the level of their teaching. Each minilesson is modeled by a TCRWP staff developer and can serve as powerful professional learning for individual teachers and for teams as they plan instruction. Teachers may also use the videos in settings where remote teaching is needed.
Visit Hein.pub/UOS-subscriptions for details.