Units of Study Classroom Videos

The grade-level Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing, K–8, will:

  • provide all the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small group work needed to teach a comprehensive workshop curriculum in opinion/argument, information, and narrative writing;
  • foster high-level thinking through regular chances to synthesize, analyze, and critique;
  • build writing independence and fluency;
  • provide a ladder of exemplar texts that model writing progressions across grades K–8;
  • develop and refine strategies for writing across the curriculum;
  • include strategic performance assessments to help monitor mastery and differentiate instruction.

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Phonics


Narrative Writing


Informative/Explanatory Writing


Opinion/Argument Writing


Reading Informational Texts


Reading Literature

“To write the Units of Study, we have done what teachers throughout the world do all the time. We’ve taken all that we know—the processes, sequences, continua, books, levels, lessons, methods, principles, strategies… the works—and we’ve made a path for children, a path that draws all we know into a cohesive, organic progression. Our hope is that this path brings children along to the place where they can write clearly and skillfully and read flexibly and joyfully—and can live together as caring thoughtful readers and writers."

—Lucy Calkins