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| Unit 1: Learning from the Masters: Improving Narrative Writing |
| Session 1: Disovering Small Moments that Matter |
| Session 2: Capturing Story Ideas: Tiny Topics Notepads |
| Session 3: Stretching Out Small Moments |
| Session 4: Writing with Detail: Magnifying a Small Moment |
| Session 5: Revising with the Masters: Creating Powerful Endings |
| Session 6: Rereading Like Detectives: Making Sure Writing Makes Sense and Sounds Right |
| Session 7: Working Hard: Setting Goals and Making Plans for Writing Time |
| Session 8: Revising with Intent |
| Session 9: Close Reading: Learning Writing Moves from a Text |
| Session 10: Learning to Write in Powerful Ways: Trying Out Craft Moves Learned From Mentor Authors |
| Session 11: Learning to Write in Powerful Ways: Trying Out a Second Craft Move |
| Session 12: Emulating Authors in Ways that Matter: Revising in Meaningful Ways |
| Session 13: Mining Mentor Texts for Word Choice: Studying and Revising for Precise and Specific Language |
| Session 14: Rereading and Quick Editing: Preparing for a Mini-Celebration |
| Session 15: Learning Craft Moves from Any Mentor Text |
| Session 16: Being Bold: Trying New Craft Moves |
| Session 17: Writers Can Help Each Other: Partners Offer Feedback |
| Session 18: Editing and Preparing for Publication |
| Session 19: A Celebration |
| Unit 2: Lab Reports and Science Books |
| Session 1: Learning to Write About Science |
| Session 2: Studying a Mentor Text: Procedural Writing |
| Session 3: New Wonderings, New Experiments |
| Session 4: Authors Share Scientific Ideas/Conclusions |
| Session 5: Scientists Learn from Other Sources as Well as Experiments |
| Session 6: Student Self-Assessment and Plans |
| Session 7: Remember All You Know about Science and about Scientific Writing for New Experiments |
| Session 8: Studying a Mentor Text: The “Results” Page |
| Session 9: Comparing Results and Reading More Expert Materials to Consider New Questions |
| Session 10: Designing and Writing a New Experiment |
| Session 11: Editing: Domain-Specific Language |
| Session 12: Drawing on All We Know to Rehearse and Plan Information Books |
| Session 13: Tapping Informational Know-How for Drafting |
| Session 14: Studying Mentor Texts: Integrating Scientific Information |
| Session 15: Using Comparisons to Teach Readers |
| Session 16: Showing Hidden Worlds with Science Writing |
| Session 17: Introductions and Conclusions: Addressing an Audience |
| Session 18: Editing: Aligning Expectations to the Common Core |
| Session 19: Writing and Science Exhibition |
| Unit 3: Writing About Reading |
| Session 1: Writing Letters to Share Ideas About Characters |
| Session 2: Getting Energy for Writing by Talking |
| Session 3: Writers Generate More Letters: Developing New Opinions by Looking at Pictures |
| Session 4: Writers Make Their Letters about Books Even Better by Retelling Important Parts |
| Session 5: Keeping Audience in Mind |
| Session 6: Using a Checklist to Set Goals for Ourselves as Writers |
| Session 7: Writing about More than One Part of a Book |
| Session 8: Reading Closely to Generate More Writing |
| Session 9: Gathering More Evidence to Support Each of our Opinions |
| Session 10: Why is the Author Using a Capital Here? |
| Session 11: Publishing Our Opinions for All to Read |
| Session 12: And the Nominees Are… |
| Session 13: Prove It! Adding Quotes to Support Opinions |
| Session 14: Good. Better. Best. |
| Session 15: Giving Readers Signposts and Rest Stops |
| Session 16: Writing Introductions and Conclusions to Captivate |
| Session 17: Using a Checklist to Set Writerly Goals |
| Session 18: Keeping the Elaboration Going |
| Session 19: Awarding our Favorites: A Book Fair Celebration |
| Unit 4: Poetry: Big Thoughts in Little Packages |
| Session 1: Seeing with Poets’ Eyes |
| Session 2: Listening for Line Breaks |
| Session 3: Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages |
| Session 4: Poets Find Poems in the Strong Feelings and Concrete Details of Life |
| Session 5: Editing Poetry |
| Session 6: Searching for Honest, Precise Words: Language Matters |
| Session 7: Patterning through Repetition |
| Session 8: Poems Are Moody |
| Session 9: Using Comparisons to Clarify Feelings and Ideas |
| Session 10: Stretching Out a Comparison |
| Session 11: Studying Structure |
| Session 12: Close Reading of a Mentor Text |
| Session 13: Matching Structures to Feelings |
| Session 14: Playing with Point of View |
| Session 15: Revising Poems: Replacing Feeling Words with Word Pictures |
| Session 16: Editing Poems: Reading Aloud to Find Trouble Spots |
| Session 17: Letter to Teachers: Presenting Poems to the World: An Author’s Celebration |