Unit 1: Crafting True Stories
August-September
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1. Starting the Writing Workshop: Visualizing
Possibilities
2. Finding Ideas and Writing Up a Storm
3. Drawing on a Repertoire of Strategies:
Writing with Independence
4. Writers Us a Storyteller's Voice: They Tell
Stories, Not Summaries
5. Taking Stock: Pausing to Ask, "How Am I
Doing?"
6. Editing as We Go: Making Sure Others Can Read
Our Writing
7. Rehearsing: Storytelling and Leads
8. Writing Discovery Drafts
9. Revising by Studying What Other Authors Have
Done
10. Storytellers Develop the Heart of a Story
11. Paragraphing to Support Sequencing,
Dialogue, and Elaboration
12. Becoming One's Own Job Captain: Starting a
Second Piece, Working with New Independence
13. Revision Happens Throughout the Writing Process
14. Drafting: Writing from Inside a Memory
15. Revision: Balancing Kinds of Details
16. Commas and Quotation Marks: Punctuating
Dialogue
17. Writers Revise in Big, Important Ways
18. Revising Endings: Learning from Published
Writing
19. Using Editing Checklists
20. Publishing: A Writing Community Celebrates
Unit 2: The Art of
Information Writing
September-November
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1. Teaching Others as a Way to Prime the Pump
2. The Power of Organizing and
Reorganizing
3. New Structures Lead to New Thinking
4. Laying the Bricks of Information
5. Organization Matters in Texts Large and Small
6. Studying Mentor Texts in a Search for
Elaboration Strategies
7. Making Connections within and Across Chapters
8. Balancing Facts and Ideas from the Start
9. Researching Facts and Ensuring Text Accuracy
10. Reusing and Recycling in the Revision
Process
11. Creating Introductions through Researching
Mentor Authors
12. Taking Stock and Setting Goals
13. Putting Oneself in Readers' Shoes to Clear
Up Confusion
14. Using Text Features Makes it Easier for
Readers to Learn
15. Fact-Checking through Rapid Research
16. Punctuating with Paragraphs
17. Plan Content-Area Writing, Drawing on
Knowledge from Across the Unit
18. Revising from Self-Assessments
19. Crafting Speeches, Articles, or Brochures
Using Information Writing Skills
20. Bringing All You Know to Every Project
21. A Final Celebration: Using Knowledge about
Non-Fiction Writing to Teach Younger Students
Unit 3: Changing the World:
Persuasive Speeches, Petitions, and Editorials
November-December
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1.Practicing Persuasion
2. Gathering Brave, Bold Opinions for Persuasive
Writing
3. Drawing on a Repertoire of Strategies for
Generating Opinion Writing
4. Considering Audience to Say More
5. Editing as You Go: Making Sure Your Audience
Can Always Read Your Drafts
6. Taking Stock and Setting Goals
7. Gathering All You Know about Your Opinion
8. Organizing and Categorizing
9. For Example: Providing by Showing
10. By Considering Audience, Writers Select and
Discard Material
11. Paragraphing to Organize Our Drafts
12. Choosing Words that Sound Right and Evoke
Emotion
13. Inquiry into Petitions
14. Becoming Your Own Job Captain
15. Revising Your Introductions and Conclusions
to Get Your Audience to Care
16. Taking Stock Again: Goal Setting with More
Independence
17. Tackling a Cause
18. Becoming Informed about a Cause
19. Getting Our Writing Ready for Readers
20. Celebrating Activism
Unit 4:
Once Upon a Time: Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales
January-March
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1. Adapting Classic Tales
2. Writing Story Adaptations that Hold Together
3. Storytelling, Planning, and Drafting
Adaptations of Fairy Tales
4. Writers Can Story-Tell and Act Out as They
Draft
5. Weaving Narration Through Stories
6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Assessment Using
Self-Reflection
7. Goals and Plans Are a Big Deal
8. Telling Stories that Make Readers Shiver
9. Revising Early and Often
10. When Dialogue Swamps Your Draft, Add Actions
11. Painting a Picture with Words: Revising for
Language
12. The Long and Short of It: Editing for
Sentence Variety
13. Collecting Ideas for Original Fairy
Tales
14. Tethering Objects to Characters
15. Using Descriptive Language While
Drafting
16. Revising the Magic
17. Revising for Readers
18. Happily Ever After: A Fairy Tale
Celebration
Unit 5: Poetry
April-May
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1.Seeing with the Poets' Eyes
2. Listening for Line Breaks
3. Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
4. Poets Find Poems in the Strong Feelings and
Concrete Details of Life
5. Editing Poetry
6. Searching for Honest, Precise Words: Language
Matters
7. Patterning through Repetition
8. Poems Are Moody
9. Using Comparisons to Clarify Feelings and
Ideas
10. Stretching Out a Comparison
11. Studying Structure
12. Studying a Mentor Text with Poets' Eyes
13. Matching Structures to Feelings
14. Playing with Point of View
15. Revising Poems: Replacing Feeling Words with
Word Pictures
16. Editing Poems: Reading Aloud to Find Trouble
Spots
17. Presenting Poems to the World: An Author's
Celebration
