Calkins, Lucy McCormick

Contains strategies, lesson plans, and tools for four to six weeks of instruction in primary writing, focusing on the importance of spelling and punctuation.

Contains strategies, lesson plans, and tools for four to six weeks of instruction in primary writing, focusing on the skills of revision.

Contains strategies, lesson plans, and tools for four to six weeks of instruction in primary writing, focusing on a study and emulation of children's book author Angela Johnson.

Contains strategies, lesson plans, and tools for four to six weeks of instruction in primary writing, focusing on the procedures of nonfiction writing.

Contains strategies, lesson plans, and tools for four to six weeks of instruction in primary writing, focusing on the development of personal narrative writing skills.

A curriculum for teaching primary writing, featuring seven units of study, each with strategies, lesson plans, and instructional tools, and including an overview of the primary writing workshop, advice on addressing specific writing issues, and resources on CD-ROM.

Provides practical guidance and tools for teaching literary essay writing in grades three through five with a writing workshop, covering topics such as close reading, studying characters, testing a thesis statement, and using stories, summaries, and lists as evidence.

Provides practical guidance and tools for teaching fiction writing in grades three through five with a writing workshop, covering topics such as giving characters struggles and motivations, "show, don't tell, " writing powerful endings, and rereading with a lens.

Provides practical guidance and tools for teaching essay writing in grades three through five with a writing workshop, covering topics such as "growing" essay ideas in notebooks, crafting thesis statements, gathering information, and organizing for drafting.

Provides practical guidance and tools for teaching narrative writing in grades three through five with a writing workshop, covering topics such as starting with strong feelings, determining what one's story is really about, and telling the story from inside it.