Units of Study - Writing
Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing Series
As they have done throughout their more than 30-year history, Lucy Calkins and her Teachers College Reading and Writing Project colleagues continue to incorporate important new thinking into their body of work, including all they have learned from working shoulder-to-shoulder with teachers in hundreds of classrooms. Right now, that ongoing work is taking the form of the third major revision of the primary reading and writing units in the Units of Study curriculum.
Highlights
✦Lucy and her coauthors are revising the curriculum to make it more culturally responsive.
✦Lucy and her coauthors are incorporating the best of what they’ve learned from the science of reading researchand also incorporating the best of new comprehension research, language research, and research on knowl-edge generation.
✦Whole-class instruction, including minilessons, mid-workshop teaching, and shares, will be briefer.
✦There will be increased emphasis on phonics, spelling, and conventions.
✦Independent work time sections (formerly conferring and small group work) will be even more supportive of assessment-based small group and one-to-one instruction.
✦Assessment tools and methodswill be clearer and more supportive for kids and teachers.
✦There will be new point-of-use coaching notes as well as additional resources to support adaptation of the curriculum for multilingual learners.
✦Exciting design changes include 4-color throughout and an updated, user-friendly format.
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