NEW from Lucy Calkins and her TCRWP colleagues: an additional writing unit that aligns perfectly with unit 2 of gr K phonics!
Show and Tell: From Labels to Pattern Books ![]() "Meanwhile, for you, this is not a unit on the genre of show-and-tell writing—there is no such thing. Instead, this is a unit in which you turn all your children into inventive spellers. Typically, at the start of this unit, you will have some children who use writing time as an opportunity to draw and story-tell. By the end of this unit, your children will hopefully all be writing at least a sentence on each page, and writing many pages a day. The spellings in those pages will vary tremendously. Some children will record most of the salient sounds in the words they ‘stretch out’ and will also spell a dozen high-frequency words correctly, while other children will rely mostly on just a very few consonant sounds in each word. The process that children go through to write will vary less. They’ll draw, then they’ll settle on a word to write, and then they’ll cycle through a process that involves saying that word, writing the first part of it, rereading that part and saying also the part of the word that they have yet to write, recording that next bit, and rereading again.”
—Marie Mounteer and Lizzie Hetzer
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