Comprehensive Teacher Resources

Teacher Resources (Grades K-1st)

Getting Ready to Write With Art Connections For Kindergarten or Grade 1
Getting Ready to Write guide is jam-packed with lessons that will prepare your youngest writers for narrative, informational, and opinion writing, as well as age-appropriate research skills. Students will learn to recognize genre and author’s purpose, articulate ideas that will be expressed in writing (oral language precedes written expression), and engage in developmentally appropriate lessons.) 

A Sentence a Day
Primary grades, ELL, and Special Ed students will benefit from the lessons and methodology of A Sentence A Day. In an engaging, fast-paced ten minutes a day, students learn how to construct sentences, and recognize the parts of simple sentences while reinforcing the essential characteristics of the story.

Writing Guides (Grades 2nd-5th)

Informational & Opinion Writing Guides
Informational & Opinion Writing Guides include all foundational informational and opinion writing skills, strategies, and necessary lesson plans. These plans focus on effective informational, opinion, and response to text writing. A robust reading-writing connection is established throughout the lessons, and offers multiple opportunities for deconstructing, analyzing, and annotating texts to prepare students to write in response to them.

Narrative Writing Guides
The Narrative Writing Guides include all of the foundational narrative writing skills for generative writing. We also provide everything you need to be successful at applying these writing skills to personal experience narrative, literary extension tasks, and response to text writing required by today's standards.

Editing, Revising & More
So much more than a rote skill and drill workbook, Editing, Revising, and More provides comprehensive instruction that helps students understand the rules that make language work. We design our lessons specifically to cover all 21st-century readiness and ensure we're supporting standards.

A Sentence A Day (2nd-Grade)
A Sentence A Day for Grade 2 – In an engaging, fast-paced ten minutes a day, students continue to learn how to construct sentences, recognize the parts of simple sentences, identify the parts of speech, grammar, and punctuation. We approach this work while reinforcing the essential characteristics of narrative and informational writing demonstrating how the skills weave into authentic writing expereinces.  Never one and done! 

Writing Guides (Grades 6th-8th)

Informational Writing Guides & Response to Text Writing
We designed Informational Writing Guides to provide you with everything you'll need to teach informational and response to text writing. These guides also promote a the reading and writing connection. Our grade-level specific guides make planning and pacing instruction that much easier. Applying informational writing skills to the kinds of responsive writing challenges on the latest state assessments makes this resource exceedingly valuable. Anyone interested in meeting 21st-century writing standards will want to have this resource.

Comprehensive Argumentative Writing Guide
Comprehensive Argumentative Writing Guide takes the art of argumentative writing to new levels. This resource moves beyond applicable argumentative skills while offering authentic writing and research lessons designed to help students write in all curriculum areas. With everything from basic introductory lessons, to more sophisticated concepts such as audience awareness and learning how to cite sources through research, this guide provides a robust foundation to enhance student learning.

Narrative Writing Guides
The Narrative Writing Guides include all of the foundational narrative writing skills for generative writing. We also provide everything you need to be successful at applying these writing skills to personal experience narrative, literary extension tasks, and response to text writing required by today's standards.

Editing, Revising & More (Grade 7)
Editing, Revising, & More is a teacher-friendly resource that empowers writers through creative lessons and practical strategies that go beyond grammar to the elements of excellence that create expressive and confident writing. The book begins with revising skills and then moves into critical editing skills.