TWS Overview

This unit was based off of the Lucy Calkin's Writing Curriculum. This was the second book within the
unit, The How To Guide For Nonfiction Writing. The unit was implemented for a second grade class at
Waterford Memorial School. The unit focus was on building students ability to write nonfiction text.
Students are working towards writing a 'book' where they teach an audience about a subject they are
experts on. The lessons consist of 15 minute mini-lessons and 35-45 minutes of Writers Workshop where
students practice the skills they learned through the mini-lesson. Students will work independently, with
partners and in small groups throughout the unit.

November 2017

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

30 31 1 2 3
No School-Power No School-Power Wacky Lesson 1: Lesson 2:
Outage Outage Wednesday Session 8 Session 9
Alternate Writing Nonfiction Writers Writers Do More
Aim to Hook an Than One Thing
Audiences At Once
Interest Right
from the Start

6 7 8 9 10
Lesson 3: Lesson 4: Lesson 5: No School No School
Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Parent/Teacher Veterans Day
Clearing Up Setting Goals to Editing Nonfiction Conferences
Confusion Make Nonfiction Writing
Books Better