The Units of Study for Teaching Reading Series
Now Available Separate from the Units of Study for Teaching Reading! The Guide to the Reading Workshop, first introduced as a part of the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, is now available for separate purchase. The Guide can be an essential manual for principals, curriculum coordinators, coaches, and others who are supporting implementation of Units of Study—or for anyone... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
Jump Rope Readers, Set A: Box 1 consists of 6 sets of 15 decodable readers that are just right for kids who are learning how to read. The titles in this series gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction. Jump Rope Readers are engaging and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
Jump Rope Readers, Set A: Box 2 consists of 6 sets of 15 decodable readers that are just right for kids who are learning how to read. The titles in this series gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction. Jump Rope Readers are engaging and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(Please note that this is Nonfiction Classroom Set A. This includes the Guide, 3 series of 4 decodable readers x 6 copies each for a total of 72 little books, and digital access.)
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(Please note that this is Nonfiction Classroom Set B, Box 1. This includes the Guide, 3 series of 4 decodable readers x 6 copies each for a total of 72 little books, and digital access.)
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Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, they also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, fascinating nonfiction... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Blue series- it comes with 1 Read Aloud, 5 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set A, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Blueberry series- it comes with 6 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set B, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Gold series- it comes with 1 Read Aloud, 5 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set A, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Grape series- it comes with 6 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set B, Fiction.) The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Green series- it comes with 1 Read Aloud, 5 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set A, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Lemon series- it comes with 6 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set B, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Lime series- it comes with 6 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set B, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Orange series- it comes with 1 Read Aloud, 5 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set A, Fiction.) The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Purple series- it comes with 1 Read Aloud, 5 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set A, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Raspberry series- it comes with 6 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set B, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Red series- it comes with 1 Read Aloud, 5 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set A, Fiction.) The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and... more
Lucy Calkins, Michael Rae-Grant
(This includes just the Tangerine series- it comes with 6 readers x 6 copies each. Please note that these sets provide extra copies of phonics decodable readers for student practice and are designed to be used in conjunction with the Jump Rope Readers Classroom Set B, Fiction.)The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically... more
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
Let’s Gather is a read-aloud and shared reading curriculum designed to provide grade-level specific read-aloud plans that highlight thoughtfully curated fiction and nonfiction texts that support a progression of high-level comprehension skills across the year. For each grade, there are more than a dozen detailed read-aloud plans and shared reading templates that you may choose to lean on in your classroom. You’ll discover specific plans... more
Lucy Calkins, Natalie Louis, Amanda Hartman, Elizabeth Franco, Katie Wears, Rebecca Cronin, Angela Báez, Marjorie Martinelli, Christine Holley, Elizabeth Moore, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Kindergarten Units In kindergarten, your students begin to establish their identities as readers while they build the foundational skills for reading. In the first unit, We Are Readers, children will develop concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and the knowledge necessary to use story language to support their approximations of reading. The second unit, Super Powers:... more
Lucy Calkins, Natalie Louis, Amanda Hartman, Elizabeth Franco, Katie Wears, Rebecca Cronin, Angela Báez, Marjorie Martinelli, Christine Holley, Elizabeth Moore, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Kindergarten Units In kindergarten, your students begin to establish their identities as readers while they build the foundational skills for reading. In the first unit, We Are Readers, children will develop concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and the knowledge necessary to use story language to support their approximations of reading. The second unit, Super Powers:... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
The Kindergarten 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 Beetle Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill
About the Series Drawing on learning gleaned from decades of research, curriculum development, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, and school leaders, Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project have developed the Units of Study for Teaching Reading. Designed to meet ambitious 21st century global standards, this reading series offers grade-by-grade curricula... more
About the Series Drawing on learning gleaned from decades of research, curriculum development, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, and school leaders, Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project have developed the Units of Study for Teaching Reading. Designed to meet ambitious 21st century global standards, this reading series offers grade-by-grade curricula... more
About the new Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grade K The Units of Study in Reading for Kindergarten are designed to help you introduce your students not only to the reading workshop but also to school. In Unit 1, We Are Readers, your task will be to get your kids excited about reading and to help them feel comfortable in the classroom. Students will work to develop essential pre-reading skills,... more
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
These highly engaging trade books support the work of new Kindergarten Units of Study with grade-level appropriate books that teachers use as demonstration texts to explicitly and systematically model the skills and strategies they want students to try. For more information about the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, visit UnitsofStudy.com/K-2Reading.... more
The Units of Study in Reading series has been designed to provide teachers with a curriculum framework to lean on and to adapt, with embedded professional development to help deepen knowledge of beginning reading and of methods for teaching reading. What makes the Units of Study particularly magical is the way that one day’s teaching links to the next. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within... more
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
Let’s Gather is a read-aloud and shared reading curriculum designed to provide grade-level specific read-aloud plans that highlight thoughtfully curated fiction and nonfiction texts that support a progression of high-level comprehension skills across the year. For each grade, there are more than a dozen detailed read-aloud plans and shared reading templates that you may choose to lean on in your classroom. You’ll discover specific plans... more
Lucy Calkins, Elizabeth Franco, Amanda Hartman, Havilah Jespersen, Lindsay Barton, Elizabeth Moore, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 1 Units The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten. In the first unit, Building Good Reading Habits, you’ll reinforce children’s learning from kindergarten, and you’ll establish ability-based partnerships that tap into the social power of peers working together to help each other become more strategic as readers.... more
Lucy Calkins, Elizabeth Franco, Amanda Hartman, Havilah Jespersen, Lindsay Barton, Elizabeth Moore, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 1 Units The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten. In the first unit, Building Good Reading Habits, you’ll reinforce children’s learning from kindergarten, and you’ll establish ability-based partnerships that tap into the social power of peers working together to help each other become more strategic as readers.... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
The Grade 1 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.
- Dinosaur Chase by Hugh Price
- Frog And Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
- Gossie
About the new Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grade 1 The Units of Study in Reading for Grade 1 are designed to help your students continue to build on all of the skills they learned throughout kindergarten, and to help them develop good reading habits they’ll carry with them through the rest of their academic careers and beyond. In Unit 1, Building Good Reading Habits, it will be your job... more
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
These highly engaging trade books support the work of new Grade 1 Units of Study with grade-level appropriate books that teachers use as demonstration texts to explicitly and systematically model the skills and strategies they want students to try. For more information about the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, visit UnitsofStudy.com/K-2Reading.... more
The Units of Study in Reading series has been designed to provide teachers with a curriculum framework to lean on and to adapt, with embedded professional development to help deepen knowledge of beginning reading and of methods for teaching reading. What makes the Units of Study particularly magical is the way that one day’s teaching links to the next. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Edited By Lucy Calkins
The Word Detectives, Grade 1 Trade Book Pack includes grade level appropriate books that are used as demonstration texts for teachers to model the skills and strategies they want students to try, and for read-alouds and shared reading.
- A Country Mouse and a Town Mouse by Aesop
- Lost Socks by Dawn McMillan
- Nate the Great by
Elizabeth Franco, Havilah Jespersen, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Edited By Lucy Calkins
About the Unit Designed to be the second unit in first grade, Word Detectives supports students’ word solving skills and their knowledge of high-frequency words. This playful unit expands on the important work that the entire series does to support youngsters’ foundational reading skills. In this unit, students will:
- Learn to monitor their reading
- Develop their word-solving
Elizabeth Franco, Havilah Jespersen, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit Designed to be the second unit in first grade, Word Detectives supports students’ word solving skills and their knowledge of high-frequency words. This playful unit expands on the important work that the entire series does to support youngsters’ foundational reading skills. In this unit, students will:
- Learn to monitor their reading
- Develop their word-solving
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
Let’s Gather is a read-aloud and shared reading curriculum designed to provide grade-level specific read-aloud plans that highlight thoughtfully curated fiction and nonfiction texts that support a progression of high-level comprehension skills across the year. For each grade, there are more than a dozen detailed read-aloud plans and shared reading templates that you may choose to lean on in your classroom. You’ll discover specific plans... more
Carl Ciaramitaro, Valerie Geschwind
With an emphasis on social justice and culturally responsive teaching, United We Learn launches students into collaborative nonfiction reading.In this unit, you will amplify the importance of partnerships, helping young learners talk and collaborate in new and more rigorous ways. A spotlight on talk and collaboration is part of a larger focus on classrooms as generous, supportive, culturally responsive learning communities.United... more
Lucy Calkins, Shanna Schwartz, Amanda Hartman, Celena Dangler Larkey, Lindsay Wilkes, Lauren Kolbeck, Brianna Parlitsis, Elizabeth Moore, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 2 Units In second grade, children move from a “little-kid” focus on print to a “big-kid” focus on meaning. The first unit, Second-Grade Reading Growth Spurt, teaches children to take charge of their reading, drawing on everything they know to figure out hard words, understand author’s craft, and build big ideas about the books they read. Children learn that books can be their teachers... more
Lucy Calkins, Shanna Schwartz, Amanda Hartman, Celena Dangler Larkey, Lindsay Wilkes, Lauren Kolbeck, Brianna Parlitsis, Elizabeth Moore, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 2 Units In second grade, children move from a “little-kid” focus on print to a “big-kid” focus on meaning. The first unit, Second-Grade Reading Growth Spurt, teaches children to take charge of their reading, drawing on everything they know to figure out hard words, understand author’s craft, and build big ideas about the books they read. Children learn that books can be their teachers... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
The Grade 2 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
- Days With Frog And Toad by Arnold Lobel
- Happy Like Soccer by Maribeth Boelts
- Houndsley
The Units of Study in Reading series has been designed to provide teachers with a curriculum framework to lean on and to adapt, with embedded professional development to help deepen knowledge of beginning reading and of methods for teaching reading.What makes the Units of Study particularly magical is the way that one day’s teaching links to the next. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within... more
Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
These highly engaging trade books support the work of new Grade 2 Units of Study with grade-level appropriate books that teachers use as demonstration texts to explicitly and systematically model the skills and strategies they want students to try. For more information about the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, visit UnitsofStudy.com/K-2Reading.... more
The Units of Study in Reading series has been designed to provide teachers with a curriculum framework to lean on and to adapt, with embedded professional development to help deepen knowledge of beginning reading and of methods for teaching reading. What makes the Units of Study particularly magical is the way that one day’s teaching links to the next. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within... more
Now Available Separate from the Units of Study for Teaching Reading! The Guide to the Reading Workshop, first introduced as a part of the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, is now available for separate purchase. The Guide can be an essential manual for principals, curriculum coordinators, coaches, and others who are supporting implementation of Units of Study—or for anyone... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
The Mystery, Grade 3 Trade Book Pack includes grade level appropriate books that are used as demonstration texts for teachers to model the skills and strategies they want students to try, and for read-alouds and shared reading.
- The Absent Author by Ron Roy
- The Diamond Mystery by Martin Widmark
Brooke Geller, Alissa Reicherter, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit Mysteries are the perfect vehicle for teaching foundational skills that lie at the heart of engaged reading. Students leap at the chance to do the work required to “get” the mystery, following ideas across their texts, seeing cause-and-effect relationships, and predicting outcomes. And, of course, mysteries naturally push kids to infer—to notice clues and to wonder more about them; to consider how part of... more
Brooke Geller, Alissa Reicherter, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit Mysteries are the perfect vehicle for teaching foundational skills that lie at the heart of engaged reading. Students leap at the chance to do the work required to “get” the mystery, following ideas across their texts, seeing cause-and-effect relationships, and predicting outcomes. And, of course, mysteries naturally push kids to infer—to notice clues and to wonder more about them; to consider how part of... more
Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan, Julia Mooney, Kristin Smith, Alexandra Marron, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 3 Units The third-grade units were written to support the crucial transition children make from learning to read to reading to learn. The opening unit, Building a Reading Life, launches your students’ lives as upper elementary school readers. Children ramp up their reading skills by immersing themselves in within-reach fiction books while working on word solving, vocabulary development,... more
Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan, Julia Mooney, Kristin Smith, Alexandra Marron, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 3 Units The third-grade units were written to support the crucial transition children make from learning to read to reading to learn. The opening unit, Building a Reading Life, launches your students’ lives as upper elementary school readers. Children ramp up their reading skills by immersing themselves in within-reach fiction books while working on word solving, vocabulary development,... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
The Grade 3 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.
- Because Of Winn-Dixie by DiCamillo, Kate
- Frogs! by Elizabeth Carney
- Frogs
Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan, Emily Butler Smith, Mike Ochs, Janet L. Steinberg, Grace Chough, Mary Ehrenworth, Alexandra Marron, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
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 unit, Reading the Weather, Reading the World,... more
Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan, Emily Butler Smith, Mike Ochs, Janet L. Steinberg, Grace Chough, Mary Ehrenworth, Alexandra Marron, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
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 unit, Reading the Weather, Reading the World,... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
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 Milton Meltzer, Ed.
- Every Living Thing
Lucy Calkins, Alexandra Marron, Katie Clements, Kelly Boland Hohne, M. Colleen Cruz, Mary Ehrenworth, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 5 Units Fifth grade is a time for children to hone their intellectual independence. In the first unit, Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes, students draw on a repertoire of ways for reading closely, noticing how story elements interact, understanding how different authors develop the same theme, and comparing and contrasting texts that develop a similar theme. In the second... more
Lucy Calkins, Alexandra Marron, Katie Clements, Kelly Boland Hohne, M. Colleen Cruz, Mary Ehrenworth, Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
About the Grade 5 Units Fifth grade is a time for children to hone their intellectual independence. In the first unit, Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes, students draw on a repertoire of ways for reading closely, noticing how story elements interact, understanding how different authors develop the same theme, and comparing and contrasting texts that develop a similar theme. In the second... more
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project, Lucy Calkins
The Grade 5 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.
- Alien Deep by Bradley Hague
- Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant
- Fly
About the Unit This unit serves as a primer in what it means to participate in an intense reading workshop. It introduces students to a variety of instructional methods such as read-aloud, partner work, and minilessons, and coaches both teachers and students in how to harness those methods to increase reading expertise and independence. Students will learn to consider more complex character traits, to investigate... more
About the Unit This unit serves as a primer in what it means to participate in an intense reading workshop. It introduces students to a variety of instructional methods such as read-aloud, partner work, and minilessons, and coaches both teachers and students in how to harness those methods to increase reading expertise and independence. Students will learn to consider more complex character traits, to investigate... more
About the Guide The Guide to the Reading Workshop: Middle School Grades offers a comprehensive but concise introduction to:
- the need for this series
- research on what adolescent readers need
- ways to launch and sustain independent reading
- a big-picture introduction to the reading workshop
- the architecture of minilessons
- classroom
About the Unit This unit is for teachers whose classes could benefit from a deep study of an incredibly engaging genre. It will support classes who could learn to talk more deeply about their reading and push themselves to read with greater volume. It will also pay off for teachers who want to take advantage of the power of a popular genre to lure kids into studying complexity and symbolism and allusions. During... more
About the Unit This unit is for teachers whose classes could benefit from a deep study of an incredibly engaging genre. It will support classes who could learn to talk more deeply about their reading and push themselves to read with greater volume. It will also pay off for teachers who want to take advantage of the power of a popular genre to lure kids into studying complexity and symbolism and allusions. During... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit Historical fiction helps students see how history is not a collection of old, dead facts to be memorized, but is full of compelling stories that help us understand our present and, perhaps, what we need to do to shape a better future. We hope that the reading of historical fiction in this unit will not only kindle in your students an interest in the genre, but that it will also generate awareness of how much... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit Historical fiction helps students see how history is not a collection of old, dead facts to be memorized, but is full of compelling stories that help us understand our present and, perhaps, what we need to do to shape a better future. We hope that the reading of historical fiction in this unit will not only kindle in your students an interest in the genre, but that it will also generate awareness of how much... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Katy Wischow, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit This unit of study focuses readers on studying not just characters, but characterization, or how authors create multifaceted characters replete with weakness and strengths, complex relationships with others, and life lessons they learn and teach. The unit strikes a delicate balance between encouraging readers to hold on to the magic of reading, allowing them to slip longingly into the pages of a compelling... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Katy Wischow, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit This unit of study focuses readers on studying not just characters, but characterization, or how authors create multifaceted characters replete with weakness and strengths, complex relationships with others, and life lessons they learn and teach. The unit strikes a delicate balance between encouraging readers to hold on to the magic of reading, allowing them to slip longingly into the pages of a compelling... more
Katie Clements, Audra Robb, Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth
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 possesses a unique blend of heart-rending storytelling, artful juxtaposition of subtopics,... more
Katie Clements, Audra Robb, Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth
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 possesses a unique blend of heart-rending storytelling, artful juxtaposition of subtopics,... more
Lucy Calkins, Audra Robb, Emily Strang-Campbell
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 pressures. There can be serious consequences to the spiraling troubles that surround middle... more
Audra Robb, Emily Strang-Campbell, Lucy Calkins
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 pressures. There can be serious consequences to the spiraling troubles that surround middle... more
About the Unit Nonfiction reading skills are essential to students’ achievement in virtually every academic discipline. To do science, students need to read science books and articles. To study history, they need to be skilled at reading all kinds of primary and secondary sources. When we help students become powerful readers of nonfiction, we help them become powerful learners. This unit assumes you have a reading... more
About the Unit Nonfiction reading skills are essential to students’ achievement in virtually every academic discipline. To do science, students need to read science books and articles. To study history, they need to be skilled at reading all kinds of primary and secondary sources. When we help students become powerful readers of nonfiction, we help them become powerful learners. Note: This unit assumes you have... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Sonja Cherry-Paul, Heather Burns
About the Unit
This unit is about cultural relevance and getting teens to fall in love with books that are deeply meaningful to the lives they are living right now. The unit will introduce young people to some of the great writers of their generation, the writers who are writing for them, and will create powerful opportunities for teens to share their voices, and find their places, in school and in the world.
Across... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Sonja Cherry-Paul, Heather Burns
About the Unit
This unit is about cultural relevance and getting teens to fall in love with books that are deeply meaningful to the lives they are living right now. The unit will introduce young people to some of the great writers of their generation, the writers who are writing for them, and will create powerful opportunities for teens to share their voices, and find their places, in school and in the world.
Across... more
Mary Ehrenworth, Marc Todd, Lucy Calkins
About the Unit This unit is all about learning well in today’s digital world and then sharing that knowledge with others—the most fundamental and joyous of intellectual experiences. Students will form study groups to research topics of contemporary, scientific, or historical significance. The first bend immerses readers into essential study habits that will serve them well throughout their research across the unit. Bend... more