Lucy Calkins and her colleagues have helped hundreds of thousands of teachers take their first forays into the teaching of writing. Now they have written an unprecedented series of books on Units of Study for a yearlong writing curriculum. Get easy access to the magic of their transformative teaching. Enjoy minute-by-minute, live-from-the-classroom coaching as Lucy and colleagues show you how to refine your lessons to do justice to the curious minds that you teach. In each Unit of Study, these teacher/authors detail their goals, share the assessment rubric that guides their practice, and even provide the exact words of their teaching. Learn more about Units of Study for Primary Writing by visiting www.unitsofstudy.com where you can review the tables of contents, download a sample session, rubric and conference! Learn more about firsthand.
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LUCY CALKINS is founding director of the Teachers College Writing Project, a coalition of teachers, teacher-administrators, professors and writers, which provides professional sustenance and hope--roots and wings--to literacy educators across the country. Her celebrated Heinemann publications include: Lessons From a Child (1983),Living Between the Lines (with Shelley Harwayne, 1990), and The Art of Teaching Writing (1986,1994). Ms. Calkins has also developed The Writing Workshop videotape (produced by Shelley Harwayne and Alex Mitchell) and has written The Writing Workshop (with Shelley Harwayne, 1987) to accompany the videotape. Lucy Calkins is an active participant in Heinemann's Professional Development Services through Heinemann Workshops.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This set of 8 texts is the perfect match for the educator that is beginning or has implemented the writer's workshop model in their classroom.
Lucy Calkins and her co-authors provide the philosophy along with the practice. Each unit of study provides the facilator with explicit mini-lessons with ways to extend them into small shared writing lessons with specific groups of students that need extra support. Comes with a CD-ROM that provides blankline masters as well as video clips. This is a must have for any writer's workshop classroom!
I started using this unit last year, it is an easy read and easy to follow with basic lesson plans that can be implemented quickly. The results are great! The school has one copy, many teachers, so I bought my own.
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Scaffold Your Teaching Like You will Scaffold Your Writers
Dec 21 2003
By B. A Schrauth
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This set of 8 texts is the perfect match for the educator that is beginning or has implemented the writer's workshop model in their classroom.
Lucy Calkins and her co-authors provide the philosophy along with the practice. Each unit of study provides the facilator with explicit mini-lessons with ways to extend them into small shared writing lessons with specific groups of students that need extra support. Comes with a CD-ROM that provides blankline masters as well as video clips. This is a must have for any writer's workshop classroom!
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Showed me how to teach writing
May 14 2006
By M. Smith
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I have taught 2nd grade for 5 years. The first three years my district did not have a "set" writing curriculum. We used 6-traits, but the structured limits of that way of thinking did not help make me a good writing teacher. Those three years I tried my best to teach writing with the limited experience of writing myself. Two years ago we addapted the Lucy Calkins series. These books have changed the way I see writing and how I teach it.
Each book takes you through the steps of the understanding the thinking behind writing. Each book has actual lesson plans--giving you solid examples of how to teach the lesson. The books have helped me to see writing in a different, more flexible, approach.
I will say that the books are, for the most part, focused on K-1. But that being said, it is easily adaptable for 2nd grade.
I HIGLY recommend this writing series. In fact, I am going to teach 3rd grade next year and can not wait to read the new 3-5 series that Lucy Calkins has!!
Each book takes you through the steps of the understanding the thinking behind writing. Each book has actual lesson plans--giving you solid examples of how to teach the lesson. The books have helped me to see writing in a different, more flexible, approach.
I will say that the books are, for the most part, focused on K-1. But that being said, it is easily adaptable for 2nd grade.
I HIGLY recommend this writing series. In fact, I am going to teach 3rd grade next year and can not wait to read the new 3-5 series that Lucy Calkins has!!
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Don't pay this much!!! READ COMMENT
Jun 10 2007
By B. Ladd
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You can purchase this exact product for $160 (new) through Teacher's College at Columbia University, and you can purchase it online. You are a sucker if you pay almost 4x this amount on Amazon!!!
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