Length of Study

Units of Study

Genre, Process or Craft

Type of Publication

Number of Publications

Six Trait Writing Focus

Habits of Mind & Key Ideas

Resources

1-2 weeks

A study of how writer’s workshop will go.

Process

None

None

None

Routines and expectations in a writer’s workshop.

*Lucy Calkins

(launching)

1-2 weeks

A study of how writer’s generate topics.

Process

Entries in Ideas booklet

3-5

Ideas

Collecting what we need in order to make something.  A place to put your thinking down, not your whole story.

*My Map Book

*Cassie’s Word Quilt

*Welcome to the Ice Houses

*I’m in Charge of the Celebrations

*Lucy Calkins

5 weeks

(4-6 weeks)

Personal Narrative

Genre

Personal Narrative

(October Writing Sample)

1

• Organization
• Conventions
• Sentence Fluency

Narrowing a topic and have a clear beginning, middle, and end

*Lucy Calkins (Small Moments)

*Come On, Rain!

*A Chair for my Mother

*When the Relatives Came

*How I Spent my Summer Vacation

1-2 weeks

Ways to begin (leads)

Craft

Choose one entry from booklet:

Try different lead with same story.  Student chooses favorite lead to use each time or use personal narrative from prior study.

1

• Word Choice
• Sentence Fluency
• Voice

Leads that use setting, dialogue, and a question.

*Come On, Rain!

  (dialogue)

*Down the Winding Road

  (setting)

4-6 weeks

Non-fiction

(How to)

Genre

How-to book

1

• Ideas (sequence)
• Organization
• Presentation

(placement of words)

To write ideas in sequential order.

*My Baseball Book

(Gail Gibbons)

*All You Need for a Snow man

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Length of Study

Units of Study

Genre, Process or Craft

Type of Publication

Number of Publications

Six Trait Writing Focus

Habits of Mind & Key Ideas

Resources

2-3 weeks

Two-part text study

Craft

Two-part text

1

• Voice
• Organization
• Presentation

Recognizing and writing from two points of view.

*Sisters (Judith Caseley)

*My Friend John

(Charlotte Zolotow)

*The Pain and the Great One

(Judy Blume)

*Two Mrs. Gibson’s

(Chris L. Demarest)

1-2 weeks

Ways to End

Craft

Revised Two-part text

1

• Word Choice
• Sentence Fluency
• Voice

*endings that use a reflection, thought shot or lesson learned

*The Pain and the Great One

*Two Mrs. Gibson’s

4-6 weeks

Poetry

Genre

Poem

3

• Word Choice
• Voice
• Presentation

Use rhythm and/or rhyme to write poems

*Pocket full of Poems

*In November

*Autumn Blings

*Dear World

4

Letter Writing

Genre

Friendly Letter

2

• Organization
• Presentation
• Ideas

Learn format of a friendly letter. Determine purpose for letter.

*Dear Mr. Blueberry

*Yours Truly, Goldilocks

*First Year Letters

4

Author Study

(C. Zolotow or C. Rylant)

Craft

Writing using craft/style of author.

1

• Word Choice
• Voice
• Ideas

Using an author as a mentor for our writing.

*My Friend John

(Charlotte Zolotow)

*Dog Heaven

*When I was Young in the Mountains

(Cynthia Rylant)