The first unit, Second-Grade Reading Growth Spurt, teaches children to take charge of their reading, drawing on everything they know to figure out hard words, understand author's craft, and build big ideas about the books they read.
This series of books is designed to help kindergarten teachers teach a yearlong reading curriculum.
"The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten.
Lucy Calkins and her colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project have helped hundreds of thousands of teachers launch and implement rigorous and responsive reading and writing workshops.
"The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten.
"These reading units guide fifth graders toward intellectual independence.
"These reading units guide fifth graders toward intellectual independence.