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NE W from Lucy Calkins
Units of stUdy for
Teaching Reading
A WORKSHOP CURRICULUM ◆ GRADE-BY-GRADE, K– 5
Lucy Calkins with Colleagues
from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
“ This series builds on decades of teaching and research—in literally tens of thousands of schools. In
states across the country, this curriculum has already given young people extraordinary power, not
only as readers, but also as thinkers. When young people are explicitly taught the skills and strategies
of proficient reading and are invited to live as richly literate people do, carrying books everywhere,
bringing reading into every nook and corner of their lives, the results are dramatic.”
—LUCY CALKINS
Following on the success of the Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing, the new
grade-by-grade Units of Study for Teaching Reading, K–5:
◗;provide state-of-the-art tools and methods to help students move up the ladder of text complexity
◗;build foundational reading skills and strategies
◗;support the teaching of interpretation, synthesis, and main idea
◗;offer classroom structures to support inquiry and collaboration
◗;provide all the teaching points, minilessons, conferences,
and small-group work needed to teach a comprehensive
workshop curriculum
◗;include resources to help teachers build and evolve
anchor charts across each unit
◗;help teachers use learning progressions to assess students’
reading work, develop their use of self-monitoring
strategies, and set students on trajectories of growth
◗;give teachers opportunities to teach and to learn teaching
while receiving strong scaffolding and on-the-job guidance.
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Learn more at unitsofstudy.com/teachingreading
