Writing and Thinking

Grades K-6

Guide students through the writing process. Six units at each grade level include step-by-step instruction for successful writing: setting a purpose, planning, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing, publishing, assessing, postwriting, and making connections to literature. Instruction focuses on the elements of narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive writing.

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• The easy-to-use teacher manual contains lesson plans for each step of the writing process, actual student writing samples, conference guides, and scoring rubrics.

• Reproducibles for student activities include extensive prewriting activities, student-generated task, audience, and purpose, first draft guides, response guides, revising and editing workshops, final draft guides, and postwriting activities.

• Content-rich children's books are correlated to each unit as a model of the genre and as a springboard for additional writing and comprehension activities.

1. Journal Writing
2. Writing a Message for a Time Capsule (Collaborative)
3. Remembering a Special Event (Narrative)
4. Describing a Hiding Place (Descriptive)
5. Writing Directions to Explain (Expository)
6. Writing a Persuasive Letter (Persuasive)
7. Writing a News Story (Narrative)

Books included:
• A Carp for Kimiko
• In My Own Backyard
• Going Lobstering
• One Less Fish
• Turn of the Century

Classroom Set $169.00
Classroom Sets include teacher manual, reproducible resources, and 5 children's books.

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Grade 2 ~ Green Level Units

1. Journal Writing
2. Writing a Class Menu (Collaborative)
3. Writing About My Home (Expository)
4. Describing a Family Member (Descriptive)
5. Writing Dialogue (Narrative)
6. Story Writing (Narrative)
7. Problem Solving (Expository)

Books included:
• To Be a Kid
• Tomorrow is Mom’s Birthday
• Different Just Like Me
• No One Told the Aardvark
• Animals Black and White

Classroom Set $169.00
Classroom Sets include teacher manual, reproducible resources, and 5 children's books.

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1. Journal Writing
2. Writing a Class Motto (Collaborative)
3. Remembering a Special Place (Narrative/Descriptive)
4. Writing an Autobiographical Sketch (Narrative)
5. Writing Directions for an Abstract Design (Expository)
6. Conducting an Interview (Expository)
7. Writing a Persuasive Letter (Persuasive)

Books included:
• Sweet Magnolia
• Stagecoach: The Ride of a Century
• Build a Wells Fargo Stagecoach
• The Making of a Knight
• The Flag We Love

Classroom Set $169.00
Classroom Sets include teacher manual, reproducible resources, and 5 children's books.

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1. Journal Writing
2. Writing a Set of Directions (Collaborative)
3. Remembering a Special Feeling (Narrative)
4. Describing My Favorite Thing (Descriptive)
5. Writing an Opinion Paper (Persuasive)
6. Writing a Biographical Sketch (Expository)
7. Writing a Fable (Narrative)

Books included:
• Bananas!
• Wood-Hoopoe Willie
• Will We Miss Them?
• Extraordinary Girls
• Alice in Pastaland

Classroom Set $169.00
Classroom Sets include teacher manual, reproducible resources, and 5 children's books.

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1. Journal Writing
2. Writing a Business Letter (Collaborative)
3. Remembering Someone Special (Narrative/Descriptive)
4. Writing an Internal Monologue (Narrative)
5. Comparing Two People of Different Generations (Expository)
6. Writing a Vacation Brochure (Expository)
7. Writing a Letter to the Editor (Persuasive)

Books included:
• The Ugly Vegetables
• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
• Children From Australia to Zimbabwe
• Washington, DC: A Scrapbook
• Can We Be Friends?

Classroom Set $169.00
Classroom Sets include teacher manual, reproducible resources, and 5 children's books.

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