Building on the teaching and instructional features in Units of Study for Primary Writing, Lucy Calkins and her colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project extend their writing curriculum to the upper-elementary grades with Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5. Offering a whole new set of units, this series places and added emphasis on mechanics, assessment, and collaborating with colleagues.

Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5 is organized around 6 Units of Study. Each Unit of Study lays out four to six weeks of instruction. Together the units provide the teaching points, minilessons, strategies, and tools you'll need to jump in and teach writing to your students. Presented sequentially, these units help you teach narrative and expository writing with increasing sophistication.