Now that the Units of Study for Teaching Reading and Writing have become essential parts of daily life in tens of thousands of classrooms around the world, Lucy Calkins and her coauthors have begun identifying ways they can be even more helpful to teachers and students. Based on all they’ve learned working with teachers implementing Units in their classrooms, Lucy and her colleagues are hard at work on a number of important resources to support and extend the Units of Study.
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Classroom Libraries – Ideal for Units of Study for Teaching Reading; Great for All Classrooms
New and Adapted Units of Study
Lucy and her TCRWP coauthors are developing Add-On Units to address specific, common “If. . . Then. . .” scenarios. Titles currently in development:
In addition, Lucy’s team is preparing detailed guidelines for adapting social studies units to focus on other content (e.g. adapting gr. 5 Westward Expansion unit to focus on Immigration.)
Support for ELs
Writing Anchor Chart Post-Its