Tentative Schedule (subject to change, as the students' specific needs appear):
August: Introducing the Writer's Workshop via Katie Wood Ray's The First 20 Days...
September: The First 20 Days transitioning into Narrative Writing
October: Narrative Writing Continued
November: Realistic Fiction
December: Realistic Fiction continued
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January: Informational Writing
February: Informational Writing Continued
March: Calkins Poetry--Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages (although this is not a 2nd grade standard, poetry can act as a key access point to many if the other strategies and techniques we aim to teach in writing)
April: Persuasive Writing
May: Persuasive Writing Continued
June: Writer's Wrap-up
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