Topic: Units of Study

There are many ways to use Jump Rope Readers in your classroom. Like all decodable books, they can support whole class lessons, small group work, and independent practice.

Updated Units of Study offer fully integrated solution with new digital experience to extend teacher capacity.

Try some of these easy ways to help empower your readers during reading workshop.

Writing workshop minilessons are meant as intervals for explicit, brief instruction in skills and strategies that then become part of a writer’s ongoing repertoire.

To teach writing well, it is important to know about qualities of the four major genres of writing.

Record-keeping systems allow you to consolidate data, study individual progress, track the frequency with which you meet with students, and easily access and update your data across time.

Here are six tools you can slowly introduce into your classroom writing center to support student independence.

Tips to help you adapt your writing workshop to support multilingual language learners.

Tips to help you adapt your reading workshop to support multilingual language learners.

The TCRWP Classroom Libraries were created in a way that is worlds apart from how most other libraries are created.

A list of the top three things to avoid when teaching kids how to write graphic novels from Eric Hand, coauthor of the new Writing Unit of Study.

The craft decisions involved in creating an actual graphic novel are numerous, varied, and complex—but they can be explicitly taught and learned, practiced and perfected.

Three reasons why teaching students to compose graphically is beneficial.

Lucy Calkins recently penned an OpEd for Education Week. In the piece, she addresses the serious challenges facing education today and outlines how recent updates to the Units of Study meet those challenges head-on.

Recently, misinformation has been shared that grossly oversimplifies complex issues and promotes an inaccurate narrative about TCRWP’s approach to literacy instruction. This blog offers important corrections and clarifications to that misinformation.

The updated unit places kindergartners in a superhero-themed learning environment that makes them heroes-in-training.

An updated Grade 1 Unit of Study (UoS) offers a potent new remedy for students who struggle with early literacy skills.

New research in reading instruction and better alignment of instructional materials lead students to engage challenging texts with confidence.