This page includes the student reader for the unit, as well as editable resources from the teacher manual: writing tasks, charts for discussion, forms and graphic organizers. All resources can be downloaded and added into Schoology for implementation with students.

Table of Contents

Text Audio

Getting Started by Anne Lamott
For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day by Walter Mosley
 
Amy Tan’s Lonely, ‘Pixel-by-Pixel’ Writing Method by Joe Fassler
Crafting Your Story by Ralph Fletcher

Writing Tasks

S-1: Baseline Writing Task
S-2: Day 1 Showing, Not Telling
S-3: Day 2 Showing, Not Telling
S-3: Book Interview
S-4: Day 3 Showing, Not Telling
S-5: Day 4 Showing, Not Telling
S-6: Day 5 Showing, Not Telling
S-19: Writing Project Proposal
S-20: Setting Goals for Independent Writing

Charts for Discussion

S-2: Interviewing a Book
S-4: Beginning a New Book
S-4: Rules for Shared Reading
S-5: Rules for Independent Reading
S-6: What To Do Before Reading a Book In-Progress
S-6: Problems and Solutions
S-9: The Questions Readers Ask
S-10: Expectations for Independent Reading
S-11: What We Know About Book Recommendations
S-12: The Number of Genres in Which We Have Written
S-12: Ways to Begin Writing in a Particular Genre
S-16: Ralph Fletcher’s Advice for Crafting Your Story
S-18: What We Know About Writing
S-20: The Independent Writing Life

Forms and Graphic Organizers

S-2: Book Interview
S-3: Book Pass
S-4: What Kind of Text Is This?
S-10: Goals for My Reading Life
S-11: Book Recommendation
S-11(A): Guideline Letter
S-17: Online Writing Resources
S-19: Getting Published
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