Up the Ladder: Accessing Grades 3-6 Writing Units of Study

The Up the Ladder books are designed for children in grades 3-6 who may not yet have had many opportunities to practice writing narrative, information, and opinion pieces, or might not have had those experiences in workshop-style classrooms. The units give these children opportunities to engage in repeated successful practice and to move rapidly along a gradually increasing progression of challenges.

The Up the Ladder Units:

• give less experienced writers intense writing practice within a short timeframe
• teach foundational primary-grade strategies through content, topics, and mentor texts that are appropriate for grades 3-6
• include concise, accessible student checklists and guidelines for daily assessment
• support teachers with an introduction to the workshop framework and writing process, tips and strategies for classroom management, and video demonstrations of the minilessons
• engage young people in work that is demanding yet attainable
• ensure that students make rapid and dramatic progress toward grade-level writing work.

While the Up the Ladder units are designed to be precursors to the grade-level Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing, 3---6, they can be helpful in a variety of instructional settings.

This is a boxed set.

• Narrative
• Information
• Opinion