Reading and writing are integrated!

✏️On-Demand Writing

Students will write short writing pieces in response to their reading.

Writing prompts include:

• Retell summaries that summarize a small portion of text,
• Synthesis summaries that summarize the full text and attend to thematic thinking,
• Turning point summaries arguing the central message of the text,
• Compare & contrast writing,
• Cause & effect writing,
• Problem, solution & opinion writing.

Students are guided in how to organize these expository pieces of writing and use transition words.

💻Process Writing Units

Students will write longer, more formal writing pieces and will use the read-aloud texts as mentor texts.

Writing modes include:

• Narrative Writing (personal narrative, realistic/mystery narrative, historical narrative, science fiction narrative),
• Expository/Research Writing,
• Persuasive Writing, and
• Argumentative Writing.

Students learn to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish their own writing.