Category: Writing

Every year our school puts together what we call a "Literary Magazine" in which every single student gets to publish a piece of writing. This year, since we adopted Lucy Calkins and our kids have written so much the Literacy Team decided to have kids polish off their favorite pieces and submit them for the… Continue reading Usage and Mechanics

Literary EssayWe are just about to finish up our third writing unit from Teacher's College/Lucy Calkins, so I wanted to share how it went, what we did, what worked and what (definitely) did not work!This quarter we focused on writing Literary Essays, which, before working my way through this unit, I could not have explained… Continue reading Literary Essay

We just finished up our second Lucy Calkins unit! This one was, "The Research-Based Argument Essay", which is quite a mouthful so I just call it "Opinion Writing". This unit was really fun because the kids got to pick sides and argue, which are two of their favorite things to do! 🙂 The first bend… Continue reading The Research Based Argument Essay a.k.a. Opinion Writing