Units of Study for Writing, Grade 6

Lucy Calkins

ISBN 10: 0325047146 / ISBN 13: 9780325047140

Published by Heinemann USA, Portsmouth, 2014

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Sixth-grade writing begins with Personal Narrative: Crafting Powerful Life Stories. This unit helps students draw on their lives, learning strategies to generate meaningful story ideas, manage pace, elaborate on important scenes, and deepen insights. This unit especially emphasises the importance of setting goals, practicing strategically, and aiming for high productivity. In Unit 2, The Literary Essay: From Character to Compare/Contrast, sixth graders learn ways essayists generate ideas based on close readings of a text, learning strategies essayists use to gather, analyse, and explain evidence from the text to support their claims. In Unit 3, Research-Based Information Writing: Books, Websites, and Presentations, students begin by exploring the broad topic of teen activism in order to teach their readers about a topic, using increasingly sophisticated ways to draw on and structure information to explain a position or make a call to action. Territory: sales to Australia and New Zealand only Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Units of Study for Writing, Grade 6
• Publisher: Heinemann USA, Portsmouth
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325047146
• ISBN 13: 9780325047140
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Grades 6-8

 

• Copyright: 2013   
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Grade: K - 8
• Author: Lucy Calkins

 

3 grade-specific units of study

• Are organized around the three types of writing mandated by the Common Core–argument, information, and narrative writing
• Lay out six weeks of instruction (16—18 sessions) in each unit
• Include all of the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small-group work needed to teach a comprehensive workshop curriculum
• Model Lucy and her colleagues’ carefully crafted teaching moves and language

If... Then... Curriculum: Assessment-Based Instruction, Grades 6—8

• Offers nine alternate units of study
• Presents if/then conferring scenarios that support targeted instruction and differentiation

Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, 6—8

• Is organized around a 6—8 learning progression across argument, information, and narrative writing
• Includes performance assessments, student checklists, rubrics, and leveled writing exemplars

A Guide to the Common Core Writing Workshop, Grades 6—8 crystallizes the essential principles, methods, and structures of effective writing workshop instruction.

The Resources for Teaching Writing CD-ROM provides unit-specific print resources to support your teaching throughout the year.