Writing

** 2010- 2011 At-A-Glance for Lucy Calkins' Units of Study ** ** Unit 1- Launching the Writing Workshop **
 * [[file:Writing Process.doc]] Literary Text **
 * [[file:Writing Process 2.doc]] Procedural and Expository Text **
 * **August/ September** || ** Unit 1- Launching the Writing Workshop ** ||
 * ** October/ November ** || ** Unit 2- Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing ** ||
 * ** November/ December ** || ** Unit 3- Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies ** ||
 * ** January ** || ** // Review: Unit 2: Small Moments and Unit 3: Writing for Readers // ** ||
 * ** February ** || ** Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 1- Writing How-To Books ** ||
 * ** March/April ** || ** Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 2- Writing All-About Books ** ||
 * ** April/May ** || ** Unit 7- Poetry Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages ** ||
 * ** August ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Tuesday, 24th** || Free Write || In this seesion, you will encourage the students to write a story the best they can using pictures and words. This will allow you to see where the students are in their writing. ||
 * **Wednesday, 25th** || Lesson 1: Starting the Writing Workshop || In this session, you will model the process of choosing a topic, sketching it, and then writing a tiny bit about it. ||
 * **Thursday, 26th** || Lesson: Starting the Writing Workshop ||  ||
 * **Friday, 27th** || Lesson 1: Starting the Writing Workshop ||  ||
 * Monday, 30th || Lesson 2: Carrying on Independently as Writers || In this session, you will show writers how they can keep working by adding more to their picture. ||
 * Tuesday, 31th || Lesson 2: Carrying on Independently as Writers || In this session, you will show writers how they can keep working by adding more to their words. ||
 * ** September ** ||  ||   ||
 * Wednesday, 1st || Lesson 2: Carrying on Independently as Writers || In this session, you will show writers how they can keep working by starting a new piece of writing. ||
 * Thursday, 2nd || Lesson 3: Using Supplies Independently || You'll move your students towards independence by teaching then where to find and how to take care of the tools they need for the writing workshop-- can of pencils, boxes of markers, the date stamp, and their writing folders. ||
 * Friday, 3rd || Lesson 3: Using Supplies Independently ||  ||
 * **Tuesday, 7th** || Lesson 4: Telling Stories in Illustrations || This session will teach students that writers can decide on a topic, envision it, and then record that meaning on the page with drawings that are representaional. ||
 * **Wednesday, 8th** || Lesson 4: Telling Stories in Illustrations ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 9th** || Lesson 5: Drawing Even Hard-to-Make Ideas || In this session, you'll encourage students not to be held back by not being able to draw exactly what they are thinking but instead to draw the best they can and keep going. ||
 * **Friday, 10th** || Lesson 5: Drawing Even Hard-to-Make Ideas ||  ||
 * Monday, 13th || Lesson 6: Using Both Pictures and Words, Like Famous Authors || You remind children in this session that authors write pictures and words, and you will nudge them to do the same. ||
 * Tuesday, 14th || Lesson 6: Using Both Pictures and Words, Like Famous Authors ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 15th || Lesson 7: Stretching and Writing Words || In this session, you will help writers separate out the many sounds they hear in words and write down the letters that correspond to those sounds. ||
 * Thursday, 16th || Lesson 8: Stretching and Writing Words: Initial Sounds || For now, you will show students how to listen hard to how words start so that they can get those first letters down on the page for their readers. ||
 * Friday, 17th || Lesson 8: Stretching and Writing Words: Initial Sounds ||  ||
 * **Monday, 20th** || Lesson 9: Spelling the Best We Can...and Moving On || In this session, you will teach writers to accept their own approximate spellings in order to tell more about their stories. ||
 * **Tuesday, 21st** || Lesson 10: Using Writing Tools: The Alphabet Chart || You will show students in this session how to match the sound they hear in the word they want to write with a letter that represents it, using an alphabet chart with pictures for help. ||
 * **Wednesday, 22nd** || Lesson 10: Using Writing Tools: The Alphabet Chart ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 23rd** || Lesson 11: Creating a Place for Writing-in-Progress: Long Term Projects || After this session, children will see that they can add more writing to the same piece, and they'll use a system to separte finished from unfinished work. ||
 * **Friday, 24th** || Lesson 11: Creating a Place for Writing-in-Progress: Long Term Projects ||  ||
 * Monday, 27th || Lesson 12: Introducing Booklets || This session will allow you to teacher children to plan for and write a book with several pages. ||
 * Tuesday, 28th || Lesson 12: Introducing Booklets ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 29th || Lesson 15: Fixing Up Writing || In this session, you will teach children that writers fix up and revise their writing so it says everythingthey mean it to say before it's sent out in the world. ||
 * Thursday, 30th || Lesson 16: Editing and Fancying Up Writing || You will teach students how to reread, check, and edit their writing to make sure it's readable. Then, mid-workshop, you will teach them to fancy up their work by adding details with colored pencils. ||
 * ** October ** ||  ||   ||
 * Friday, 1st || Lesson 17: Reading into the Circle: An Author's Celebration || In this session, children will read a favorite part of their writing to the whole class, then all of their writing to a small group, then will enjoy refreshments and post-unit talk. ||

**Unit 2- Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing**


 * **Monday, 4th** || Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story || This session will show children that authors write Small Moments stories and stretch the action across several pages because the moment is so important. ||
 * **Tuesday, 5th** || Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment || In this lesson, you will write a story in the air of one moment, demonstrating concentrating on and picturing the moment while you put it on the page. ||
 * **Wednesday, 6th** || Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 7th** || Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment ||  ||
 * **Friday, 8th** || Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment ||  ||
 * Tuesday, 12th || Lesson 3: Establishing Long-Term Partnerships || This minilesson will establish partnerships and ask children to revisit their partner's work from the preceding session to planfor upcoming work. ||
 * Wednesday, 13th || Lesson 3: Establishing Long-Term Partnerships ||  ||
 * Thursday, 14th || Lesson 4: Stretching One Small Moment || This session will invite children to listen to how a published author stretches a moment across several pages. Children will then learn to plan their own writing in the presence of partners by touching each page and saying what they'll write. ||
 * Friday, 15th || Lesson 4: Stretching One Small Moment ||  ||
 * **Monday, 18th** || Lesson 5: Stretching and Writing Words || In this session, you will help wiriters learn to separate out the many sounds they hear in words and write down the letters that correspond to those sounds. ||
 * **Tuesday, 19th** || Lesson 6: Sketching Rather Than Drawing || This session will teach the difference between sketching and drawing, emphasizing the sketching is appropriate in the writing workshop so we can reserve time for writing. ||
 * **Wednesday, 20th** || Lesson 7: Planning Details || This lesson will encourage children to plan detailed stories by saying those stories aloud before writing them. ||
 * **Thursday, 21st** || Lesson 7: Planning Details ||  ||
 * **Friday, 22nd** || Lesson 7: Planning Details ||  ||
 * Monday, 25th || Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes || The plan for this session will be to teach children the strategy of telling a story across one's fingers to help children produce stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end. ||
 * Tuesday, 26th || Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 27th || Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes ||  ||
 * Thursday, 28th || Lesson 9: Storytelling with Partners || In this session, children will learn to practice telling stories across their fingers to their partners to coax more structure into their writing. ||
 * Friday, 29th || Lesson 9: Sotrytelling with Partners ||  ||
 * ** November ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Monday, 1st** || Lesson 10: Writing Some Words in a Snap || In this session, you'll show children that writers write certain words quickly, either by just knowing them or by taking a quick look at the word wall. ||
 * **Tuesday, 2nd** || Lesson 11: Focusing on the Most Important Part || In this session, you will demonstrate that writers think "What is the most important part of my story?" and then they make that aspect of their story important by adding details to that part and cutting away the other parts. ||
 * **Wednesday, 3rd** || Lesson 11: Focusing on the Most Important Part ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 4th** || Lesson 12: Revealing Internal Stories || In this session, you will help children learn to unfold the pleats and reveal the internal stories (The reactions, thoughts, observations, feelings) in their pieces. ||
 * **Friday, 5th** || Lesson 12: Revealing Internal Stories ||  ||
 * Monday, 8th || Lesson 13: Writing Close-In Story Endings || In this session, you'll teach children some guidelines for writing effective story endings, suggesting that it often helps to stay closer to the heart of the story rather than writing away from it. ||
 * Tuesday, 9th || Lesson 13: Writing Close-In Endings ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 10th || Lesson 14: Revising and Editing with Partners || This session will teach children some strategies for making revisions to their pieces, and you'll help writers support their partner's revisions. ||
 * Thursday, 11th || Lesson 14: Revising and Editing with Partners ||  ||
 * Friday, 12th || Lesson 15: Reading Aloud for Visitors: An Author's Celebration || In this publishing party, children will read their stories aloud to their reading buddies--or any other visitors. The visitors will write comments in response, and all the writers as a class will receive a big round of applause. ||

**Unit 3- Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies**


 * **Monday, 15th** || Lesson 1: Inspiring Chidlren to Write for Readers || In this session, you will aim to convey the big picture of this new unit. Specifically, you'll inspire children to work harder and in new ways so that others can read their writing. ||
 * **Tuesday, 16th** || Lesson 2: Examining Readable and Unreadable Writing || You'll ask the children in this session to look back on their own work and divide their writing into piles of more- and less- readable writing, noting the qualities of each. ||
 * **Wednesday, 17th** || Lesson 3: Stretching and Writing Words || In this session, you'll encourage your children to hear and record more sounds in the words they write. ||
 * **Thursday, 18th** || Lesson 4: Writing with Sight Words || You'll remind children in this session that writers rely on sight words, not just stretching words and recording the sounds, to write with more fluency. ||
 * **Friday, 19th** || Lesson 4: Writting with Sight Words ||  ||
 * Monday, 22nd || Lesson 5: Spacing Words || In this session, you'll teach children that it's important to leave a finger-sized blank space when they hear no more sounds in a word. ||
 * Tuesday, 23rd || Lesson 5: Spacing Words ||  ||
 * **Monday, 29th** || Lesson 6: Checking Content: Focused Small Moment Stories || In this session, you'll remind writers that their content matters; specifically, you'll encourage them to write focused narratives. ||
 * **Tuesday, 30th** || Lesson 6: Checking Content: Focused Small Moment Stories ||  ||
 * ** December ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Wednesday, 1st** || Lesson 7: Learning More Sight Words || You'll remind children in this session how to learn and write some words in a snap, without sounding them out. ||
 * **Thursday, 2nd** || Lesson 7: Learning More Sight Words ||  ||
 * **Friday, 3rd** || Lesson 8: Using Personal Word Walls || In this session, you'll teach your children how to use their individual copies of the word wall as a resource when they write. ||
 * Monday, 6th || Lesson 9: Writing More, and More Clearly || In this session, you'll remind writers that they need to write one story each day, across three pages, with a picture and a sentence or two on each page, while at the same time writing so that others can read it. ||
 * Tuesday, 7th || Lesson 9: Writing More, and More Clearly ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 8th || Lesson 10: Writing for Partners || The message in this session with be, "As you write, remember you are writing for a friend who will try to read your work." ||
 * Thursday, 9th || Lesson 11: Revising with Partners || In this session, you will teach an opening minilesson to rally writers to write a lot and write for readers. In a longer minilession at the end of the session, you will teach partners to reread each other's writing to fing and fill in missing words. ||
 * Friday, 10th || Lesson 12: Peer-Editing: Adding More Sounds || You will encourage your writers in this session to help each other incldue more letters in each word, making their writing easier to read. ||
 * **Monday, 13th** || Lesson 13: Peer-Editing: Spelling || In this session, students in partnerships help each other spell word-wall words correctly and easily when they write. ||
 * **Tuesday, 14th** || Lesson 14: Peer-Editing: Punctuation || In this session, you'll encourage children to write with at least a sentence on each page,and you'll help writers learn more about the placement on periods. ||
 * **Wednesday, 15th** || Lesson 15: Selecting Easy-to-Read Writing || You will ask your writers in this session to make an easy-to-read pile and a hard-to-read pile of their writing once again, and once again atlk about what makes writing easy to read ||
 * **Thursday, 16th** || Fancying Up || You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces. ||
 * **Friday, 17th** || Lesson 16: Sharing and Reflection: An Author's Celebration || In the final session of this unit, your writers will share their stories with guests and classmates. Your children will receive congratulations for their work, and they will have a chance to talk about what they have learned to do to make writing easier to read. ||
 * Review Unit 2: Small Moments and Unit 3: Writing for Readers **
 * ** January ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Tuesday, 4th** || Small Moments: Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story || This session will show children that authors write Small Moments stories and stretch the action across several pages because the moment is so important. ||
 * **Wednesday, 5th** || Small Moments: Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment || In this lesson, you will write a story in the air of one moment, demonstrating concentrating on and picturing the moment while you put it on the page. ||
 * **Thursday, 6th** || Small Moments: Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story || This session will show children that authors write Small Moments stories and stretch the action across several pages because the moment is so important. ||
 * **Friday, 7th** || Small Moments: Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment || In this lesson, you will write a story in the air of one moment, demonstrating concentrating on and picturing the moment while you put it on the page. ||
 * Monday, 10th || Small Moments: Lesson 4: Stretching One Small Moment || This session will invite children to listen to how a published author stretches a moment across several pages. Children will then learn to plan their own writing in the presence of partners by touching each page and saying what they'll write.
 * Remind the students the purpose of their writing. Go around to check and remind about writing for readers.* ||
 * Tuesday, 11th || Small Moments: Lesson 7: Planning Details || This lesson will encourage children to plan detailed stories by saying those stories aloud before writing them. ||
 * Wednesday, 12th || Small Moments: Lesson 7: Planning Details ||  ||
 * Thursday, 13th || Small Moments: Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes || The plan for this session will be to teach children the strategy of telling a story across one's fingers to help children produce stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end. ||
 * Friday, 14th || Small Moments: Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes ||  ||
 * **Tuesday, 18th** || Small Moments: Lesson 11: Focusing on the Most Important Part || In this session, you will demonstrate that writers think "What is the most important part of my story?" and then they make that aspect of their story important by adding details to that part and cutting away the other parts. ||
 * **Wednesday, 19th** || Small Moments: Lesson 12: Revealing Internal Stories || In this session, you will help children learn to unfold the pleats and reveal the internal stories (The reactions, thoughts, observations, feelings) in their pieces. ||
 * **Thursday, 20th** || Small Moments: Lesson 13: Writing Close-In Endings || In this session, you'll teach children some guidelines for writing effective story endings, suggesting that it often helps to stay closer to the heart of the story rather than writing away from it. ||
 * **Friday, 21st** || Writing for Readers: Lesson 11: Revising with Partners || In this session, you will teach an opening minilesson to rally writers to write a lot and write for readers. In a longer minilession at the end of the session, you will teach partners to reread each other's writing to fing and fill in missing words. ||
 * Monday, 24th || Writing for Readers: Lesson 12: Adding More Sounds || You will encourage your writers in this session to help each other incldue more letters in each word, making their writing easier to read. ||
 * Tuesday, 25th || Writing for Readers: Lesson 13: Spelling || In this session, students in partnerships help each other spell word-wall words correctly and easily when they write. ||
 * Wednesday, 26th || Writing for Readers: Lesson 14: Punctuation || In this session, you'll encourage children to write with at least a sentence on each page,and you'll help writers learn more about the placement on periods. ||
 * Thursday, 27th || Fancying Up || You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces. ||
 * Friday, 28th || Reading Aloud for Visitors: An Author's Celebration || In this publishing party, children will read their stories aloud to their reading buddies--or any other visitors. The visitors will write comments in response, and all the writers as a class will receive a big round of applause. ||


 * Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 1- Writing How-To Books **
 * Some students will have the opportunity to publish 2 How-To Books.
 * **Monday, 31st** || Lesson 1: Introducing How-To Books || In this session you will tell students that they will be teachers as well as writers; specifically, they will write to teach others how to do something. ||
 * ** February ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Tuesday, 1st** || Lesson 1: Introducing How-To Books ||  ||
 * **Wednesday, 2nd** || Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity || Your plan will be to help children understand the purpose and requirements of this genre by showing them that How-To writing must enable a reader to do what is being taught. ||
 * **Thursday, 3rd** || Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity ||  ||
 * **Friday, 4th** || Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity ||  ||
 * Monday, 7th || Lesson 3: Revising Words and Pictures || In this lesson, you will show how you tried to read one child's directions, how you encountered confusions, and how the author will revise his words and pictures to make them more explicit. ||
 * Tuesday, 8th || Lesson 3: Revising Words and Pictures ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 9th || Lesson 4: Incorporating Features of How-To Writing || You will teach your children that as writers of How-To books, they probably want to give their readers "helpers," as you call the text features of this genre. ||
 * Thursday, 10th || Lesson 4: Incorporating Features of How-To Writing ||  ||
 * Friday, 11th || Lesson 4: Incorporating Featers of How-To Writing ||  ||
 * **Monday, 14th** || Lesson 5: Revising: Learning from a Variety of How-To Writing || You will remind children that the world is full of huge variety of How-To texts and that they can learn lessons for their own writing by studying these. ||
 * **Tuesday, 15th** || Lesson 6: Editing: Using Periods, Parentheses, and Colons || You will want to ask your children to select one text to publish. They will need to double check their revisions of that book and then turn their attention to editing. A celebration will follow ||
 * **Wednesday, 16th** || Lesson 1: Introducing How-To Books || In this session you will tell students that they will be teachers as well as writers; specifically, they will write to teach others how to do something. ||
 * **Thursday, 17th** || Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity || Your plan will be to help children understand the purpose and requirements of this genre by showing them that How-To writing must enable a reader to do what is being taught. ||
 * **Friday, 18th** || Lesson 3: Revising Words and Pictures || In this lesson, you will show how you tried to read one child's directions, how you encountered confusions, and how the author will revise his words and pictures to make them more explicit. ||
 * Tuesday, 22nd || Lesson 4: Incorporating Features of How-To Writing || You will teach your children that as writers of How-To books, they probably want to give their readers "helpers," as you call the text features of this genre. ||
 * Wednesday, 23rd || Lesson 5: Revising: Learning from a Variety of How-To Writing || You will remind children that the world is full of huge variety of How-To texts and that they can learn lessons for their own writing by studying these. ||
 * Thursday, 24th || Lesson 6: Editing: Using Periods, Parentheses, and Colons || You will want to ask your children to select one text to publish. They will need to double check their revisions of that book and then turn their attention to editing. ||
 * Friday, 25th || Author's Celebration || Ceremonial Placement of How-To books. (Choose a place to have these out: library, classroom library, hallway, etc.) ||


 * Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 2 Writing All About Books **


 * **Monday, 28th** || Lesson 7: Introducing All-About Books || In this minilesson, your children will student the whole text of The Pumpkin Book to glimpse the overall structure of the information (or "All-About") writing. ||
 * ** March ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Tuesday, 1st** || Lesson 7: Introducing All-About Books ||  ||
 * **Wednesday, 2nd** || Lesson 8: Structuring All-About Books: The Table of Contents || In this minilesson, you will ask each child to anticipate the chapters he or she might write on a topic and to draft a Table of Contents. ||
 * **Thursday, 3rd** || Lesson 8: Structuring All-About Books: The Table of Contents ||  ||
 * **Friday, 4th** || Lesson 8: Structuring All-About Books: The Table of Contents ||  ||
 * Monday, 7th || Lesson 9: Planning Each Chapter: Choosing Papers and Structures || You will show children that in some of their chapters they might teach readers how to do something and, if so, they will need how-to paper. You will show them that in other chapters they might teach readers that there are different kinds of something and, if so, they will need paper that matches that genre. ||
 * Tuesday, 8th || Lesson 9: Planning Each Chapter: Choosing Papers and Structures ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 9th || Lesson 9: Planning Each Chapter: Choosing Papers and Structures ||  ||
 * Thursday, 10th || Lesson 10: Making Labeled Diagrams || You will reinforce the lesson from the previous session and teach that sometimes writers want to teach readers about the different parts of a thing. ||
 * Friday, 11th || Lesson 10: Making Labeled Diagrams ||  ||
 * **Monday, 21st** || Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach || In this minilesson, you will teach children that nonfiction writers need to include facts that teach in their writing and that they do research by learning from books on their topics. ||
 * **Tuesday, 22nd** || Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach ||  ||
 * **Wednesday, 23rd** || Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 24th** || Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach ||  ||
 * **Friday, 25th** || Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach ||  ||
 * Monday, 28th || Lesson 12: Revising: Learning from Each Other's Writing || You will teach children that they can learn not only from published authors but from each other as well. ||
 * Tuesday, 29th || Lesson 12: Revising: Learning from Each Other's Writing ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 30th || Lesson 13: Revising: Fitting Information into Writing || You will suggest that writers reread and revise nonfiction writing, asking, "Does anything in this chapter belong elsewhere?" ||
 * Thursday, 31st || Lesson 13: Revising: Fitting Information into Writing ||  ||
 * ** April ** ||  ||   ||
 * Friday, 1st || Lesson 14: Editing: Becoming Resourceful Word Solvers || In this minilesson, you will teach children how to be resourceful word solvers as they face bigger words. ||
 * **Monday, 4th** || Fancying Up || You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces. ||
 * **Tuesday, 5th** || Lesson 15: Celebrating Nonfiction Writing: Ceremonial Book Placement || In today's celebration, children will carefully put their books on the shelves of the school library. ||


 * Unit 7- Poetry: powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages **

Lesson 16: Presenting Poems to the World: An Author's Celebration || You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces. In this celebration, you'll help children make their poems public by posting them in the community and reading them to various audiences. ||
 * **Wednesday, 6th** || Lesson 1: Seeing with the Poet's Eyes || In this session, you'll invite youngsters to spend a few days writing about objects. You'll help children see the concrete details of their lives in fresh ways. ||
 * **Thursday, 7th** || Lesson 1: Seeing with the Poet's Eye ||  ||
 * **Friday, 8th** || Lesson 1: Seeing with the Poet's Eye ||  ||
 * Monday, 11th || Lesson 2: Listening for Line Breaks || In this session, students will learn how to change their observational notes into poems by experimenting with format. ||
 * Tuesday, 12th || Lesson 2: Listening for Line Breaks ||  ||
 * Wednesday 13th || Lesson 3: Hearing the Music in Poetry || In this session, you'll say, "Reread your poems, making your voice support the meaning in them." ||
 * Thursday, 14th || Lesson 3: Hearing the Music in Poetry ||  ||
 * Friday, 15th || Lesson 4: Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages || In this session, you'll remind your writers of the importance of topic choice and of writing about subjects that matter to them very much. ||
 * **Monday, 18th** || Lesson 4: Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages ||  ||
 * **Tuesday, 19th** || Lesson 5: Finding Ingredients for a Poem || This minilesson will help children sort through their observations, finding one or two that deserve to be made into poems. ||
 * **Wednesday, 20th** || Lesson 5: Finding Ingredients for a Poem ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 21st** || Lesson 5: Finding Ingredients for a Poem ||  ||
 * Monday, 25th || Lesson 6: Showing, Not Telling || In this session, your lesson will be that poets, like writers of stories, often convey strong feelings by creating images. ||
 * Tuesday, 26th || Lesson 6: Showing, Not Telling ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 27th || Lesson 7: Hearing the Voices of Poetry || In this session, you'll teach children that poets invigorate their poems with poetic language. ||
 * Thursday, 28th || Lesson 7: Hearing the Voices of Poetry ||  ||
 * Friday, 29th || Lesson 8: Searching for Honest, Precise Words || In this session, you'll encourage children to reach for the word that exactly matches what they are trying to say. ||
 * ** May ** ||  ||   ||
 * **Monday, 2nd** || Lesson 8: Searching for Honest, Precise Words ||  ||
 * **Tuesday, 3rd** || Lesson 9: Patterning on the Page || In this session, you'll introduce repetition and other structures in poems, explaining that poets use patterns to support their meaning. ||
 * **Wednesday, 4th** || Lesson 9: Patterning on the Page ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 5th** || Lesson 10: Using Comparisons to Convey Feelings || In this session, you'll let children know that another way to express big feelings is to say the feelings are like something else. ||
 * **Friday, 6th** || Lesson 10: Using Comparisons to Convey Feelings ||  ||
 * Monday, 9th || Lesson 11: Contrasting Ordinary and Poetic Language || In this session, your point will be that poets use comparisons and artful language to convey a sound, an image, an observations, an idea--almost anything. ||
 * Tuesday, 10th || Lesson 11: Contrasting Ordinary and Poetic Language ||  ||
 * Wednesday, 11th || Lesson 12: Stretching Out a Comparison (Sustaining a Metephor) || In this minilesson, you'll teach children that poets stay with, develop, their comparisons. ||
 * Thursday, 12th || Lesson 12: Stretching Out a Comparison (Sustaining a Metaphor) ||  ||
 * Friday, 13th || Lesson 13: Finding Treasures in Discarded Drafts || In this session, you'll suggest that sometimes in the midst of a not very special poem, a poet will find a bit that deserves to be kept and made into a new poem. ||
 * **Monday, 16th** || Lesson 13: Finding Treasures in Discarded Drafts ||  ||
 * **Tuesday, 17th** || Lesson 14: Contrasting Poems with Stories || In this session, you will teach chldren how to turn story-like drafts into poems. ||
 * **Wednesday, 18th** || Lesson 14: Contrasting Poems with Stories ||  ||
 * **Thursday, 19th** || Lesson 15: Revising and Editing Poetry || In this session, you'll teach children how to reread wtih pen in hand, carefully checking each word and then doing everything possible to fix words that require more attention. ||
 * **Friday, 20th** || Fancying Up