Units of Study in Writing, Grade K without Trade Pack (3rd Ed)

About the new Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grade K

The Units of Study in Writing for Kindergarten are designed to help you introduce your students to the writing workshop, and to welcome them into the world of school. Your most important goal in Unit 1, Launching the Writing Workshop, is to help your children see themselves as writers, and to realize that their ideas, interests, and lives are worth writing about. In Unit 2, Show and Tell Writing, children will learn to make texts that are a written version of show-and-tell time. This unit harnesses the natural power of show and tell to motivate students to write words that come closer to conventional spelling, and to use high-frequency words to write longer labels and sentences. Unit 3, Writing for Readers: Writing Readable True Stories, will ask students to begin writing true stories and personal narratives in which they honor their families, neighborhoods, daily lives, culture, and traditions. The goal is to move kids firmly into more conventional writing, to help them write readable texts, in sentences that they and others can reread while pointing under the words, matching each written word to a spoken word. Finally, in Unit 4, Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change, you’ll show students that writing involves real purposes and real audiences: making letters to be mailed, songs to be sung, chants to be performed, speeches to be made, petitions to be circulated, signs to be displayed. By the end of this writing workshop, your students will have all the skills necessary to continue writing throughout the summer, into first grade and beyond.

Unit Titles

• Launching the Writing Workshop (Unit 1)
• Show and Tell Writing (Unit 2)
• Writing for Readers: Writing Readable True Stories (Unit 3)
• Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change (Unit 4)