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Seeing Possibilities
An Inside View of Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5

Lucy Calkins & Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

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To help you launch a rigorous and responsive writing workshop and to familiarize you with the architecture of minilessons, conferences, and small-group strategy sessions, this DVD focuses on the earliest units in Units of Study for Writing,Grades 3–5.

A Guide to the Writing Workshop
Seeing Possibilities
A Classic Conference
A Classic Minilesson

Launching the Writing Workshop
Minilesson: Envisioning to Write with Detail
Conference: Envisioning to Write with Detail
Conference: Clarifying Our Writing

Raising the Quality of Narrative Writing
Minilesson: Writing Endings*
Mid-Workshop Teaching Point: Studying Other Writers
Conversation: How Has Our Writing Developed?*

Breathing Life into Essays
Minilesson: Planning Supporting Paragraphs
Conference: What Does Planning Entail?
Conference: Does the Story Support the Thesis?
Strategy Lesson: Matching the Thesis with the Support
Minilesson: Does the Story Support the Thesis?

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Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum, K-2
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