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Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum: Launching the Writing Workshop

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Lucy and Leah have helped thousands of teachers take their first forays into the teaching of writing. Now, they have written an unprecedented book showing teachers how to launch a joyful and rigorous Writing Workshop. Get easy access to the magic of their transformative teaching. Enjoy minute-by-minute, live-from-the-classroom coaching as Lucy and Leah show you how to refine your lessons to do justice to the curious minds that you teach.

In this book Lucy and Leah detail writing sessions that teachers might conduct at the start of the year. They detail their goals, share their assessment rubric, and even provide the exact words of their teaching.

Selected Works

Non-fiction

Don't Forget to Share: The Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop
This brand new book will show you how to make your share sessions more instructional.

Nonfiction

Reading/Writing Connections in the K-2 Classroom: Find the Clarity and Then Blur the Lines
This book demonstrates how through careful, explicit assessing, planning, and teaching every student can understand and use the reading/writing connection to become stronger readers and writers at the same time.

Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum: Launching the Writing Workshop
This book shows teachers how to launch a joyful and rigorous Writing Workshop in their classrooms.

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