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Writing Units
Writing Units
Each writing unit leads your students step by step through the process of creating a specific form, with models, examples, activities, assignments, audio, and much more! All units are optimized for viewing on any device, from smartphone to whiteboard. Buy one, or buy the whole suite:
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Grades 3-5
Writing Paragraphs
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Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
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Writing Problem-Solution Essays
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Reading and Writing for Assessment
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Grades 6-8
All 6-8 Units
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Writing Historical Narratives
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Writing Phase Autobiographies
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Writing Cause-Effect Essays
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Writing Classification Essays
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Writing Comparison-Contrast Essays
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Reading and Writing for Literature Assessment
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Units In Development
We're always cooking up new writing units! Scroll through the list below and click on any unit to find out more. If you'd like to suggest a new unit, contact us to let us know!
Creative Writing
Writing Haiku Poems
Writing Haiku Poems guides your students step by step through the process of writing a poem about nature, using the traditional Japanese form of haiku. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students learn poetic techniques and structures. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Sensory Poems
Writing Sensory Poems guides your students step by step through the process of writing a poem that lets readers see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the subject. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students learn poetic techniques and structures. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing List Poems
Writing List Poems guides your students step by step through the process of writing a poem that has the form of a list. For example, students could write an eight-line poem on "What the Octopus Carried." Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students learn poetic techniques and structures. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Tall Tales
Writing Tall Tales guides your students step by step through the process of writing a story that exaggerates the adventures of a larger-than-life person. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new story-writing strategies and skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Realistic Stories
Writing Realistic Stories guides your students step by step through the process of writing a story that could have taken place. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new story-writing strategies and skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Stories from History
Writing Stories from History guides your students step by step through the process of writing a story that dramatizes a person, an event, or a period from history. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new story-writing strategies and skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Persuasive Writing
Developing an Opinion Email
Developing an Opinion Email leads your students step by step through creating an email that expresses an opinion and supports it with strong reasons. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new persuasive skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Opinion Letters
Writing Opinion Letters leads your students step by step through writing a letter that expresses and supports an opinion. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new strategies and skills for persuasion and argumentation. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Evaluation Essays
Writing Evaluation Essays leads your students step by step through creating an essay that shows the value or worth of something. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new writing and evaluation skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Narrative Writing
Journaling and Blogging
Journaling and Blogging helps your students write freely in personal journals and develop more public reflections in blog posts and responses. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new journaling and blogging skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing News Stories
Writing News Stories guides your students step-by-step through the process of writing about news that shapes their world. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new writing strategies and skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Explanatory Writing
Writing Short Reports
Writing Short Reports helps your students gain the reading and writing skills they need to write reports based on a little research. Students receive step-by-step guidance to create their own short reports. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new writing strategies and skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.
Writing Classroom Reports
Writing Classroom Reports helps your students gain the reading and writing skills they need to conduct short research projects and report what they discover. Students receive step-by-step guidance to create their own classroom reports. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new writing strategies and skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive white board.
Writing Summaries
Writing Summaries helps your students closely read a text, find the main point, select key details, and write an effective summary. Summarizing skills aid learning in all classes. Instructions, activities, examples, videos, interactives, and downloads help students gain new summarizing skills. You can also present this unit right from your interactive whiteboard.