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

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

Develop students' deep knowledge of literacy concepts with these must-have writing minilessons –– 225 concise, explicit, whole-group lessons with a purposeful application in building students' literacy power. With the Writing Minilessons... more

About the Grade 4 Units

In fourth grade, you’ll help children delve into complex texts and see significance in details. In the first unit, Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story, children study the complexity of characters and explore themes while developing skills such as inference and interpretation. In the second... more

About the Grade 4 Units

In fourth grade, you’ll help children delve into complex texts and see significance in details. In the first unit, Interpreting Characters: The Heart of the Story, children study the complexity of characters and explore themes while developing skills such as inference and interpretation. In the second... more

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

About the new Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grade 2

The Units of Study in Reading for Grade 2 are built to remind students of all the incredible skills they learned in first grade and to transition them into the big kid work of being a second grader. In Unit 1, Becoming a Big Kid Reader, you’ll teach your students how... more

The Grade 4 Trade Pack includes age-appropriate texts that feature heavily in the units. They are teaching texts, meant to be used in read aloud or shared reading to model effective reading strategies and provide background knowledge.

• The American Revolutionaries: A History In Their Own Words, 1750-1800 by

About the Grade 4 Units

Written for children on the cusp of writing more academic texts, the fourth-grade units familiarizes students with the genres they will regularly encounter throughout school—thesis-driven persuasive essays, literary essays, and research reports. Each of the units begins where children are and then provides a progression of... more