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Units of Study: Investigating Characterization: Author-Study Book Clubs with Trade Pack
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...
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Units of Study: Literary Essay, Grade 5 Trade Pack only
The Literary Essay, Grade 5 Trade Book Pack includes books that are used in the unit to model effective writing techniques, encourage students to read as writers, and provide background knowledge. Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant Marshfield...
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Units of Study: Literary Essay: Opening Texts and Seeing More, Grade 5 (without Trade Pack)
About the Unit This unit helps fifth graders meet sky-high expectations for writing literary essays. Members of the class begin by writing an essay about a shared story—a poignant video clip that they watch and discuss together. With that shared...
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Units of Study: Literary Essay: Opening Texts and Seeing More, Grade 5 with Trade Pack
About the Unit This unit helps fifth graders meet sky-high expectations for writing literary essays. Members of the class begin by writing an essay about a shared story—a poignant video clip that they watch and discuss together. With that shared...
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Units of Study: Literary Nonfiction Unit
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...
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Units of Study: Literary Nonfiction with Trade Pack
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...
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Units of Study: Mystery Trade Pack only, Gr. 3
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...
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Units of Study: Mystery: Foundational Skills in Disguise, Gr 3, with Trade Pack
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...
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Units of Study: Mystery: Foundational Skills in Disguise, Gr. 3
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...
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Units of Study: Show and Tell Writing: From Labels to Pattern Books, Grade K
About the Unit This engaging book-length unit will transform your kindergartners into inventive spellers, giving them the tools and strategies they need to approximate the words that are most meaningful for them in their own writing. The unit celebrates...
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Units of Study: Small Moments: Writing with Focus, Detail, and Dialogue, Grade 1
In this popular unit, students take the everyday events of their young lives and make them into focused, well-structured stories, then they learn to breathe life into the characters by making them talk, think, and interact. Please note that this unit,...
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Units of Study: Social Issues Book Clubs Unit
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:...