"The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten. In the first unit, Building Good Reading Ha

This series of books is designed to help upper elementary teachers teach a rigourous yearlong writing curriculum.

Originally published as part of the bestselling series: Units of study in opinion/argument, information, and narrative writing [Grades K-8].

"Writing allows each of us to live with that special wide-awakeness that comes from knowing that our lives and our ideas are worth writing about." -Lucy Calkins