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What an Essential Curriuclum Kit is: Schools adopting Writing Alive's comprehensive day-by-day curriculum need an Essential Curriculum Kit (ECK) per teacher (a one-time purchase) and a Student Toolbox (STB) or Writer's Tools (WT) per student (yearly consumable).
The Essential Curriculum Kit along with the Student Toolbox or Writer's Tools contain everything a teacher needs to implement the curriculum with fidelity in order to obtain the highest degree of teacher success and to obtain the highest quality of student writing and passion for writing. |
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Essential Curriculum Kit Contents
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Day by Day Curriculum Guide
The scoped and sequenced Writing Alive Curriculum Guides for each grade, K-8, are aligned to the CCSS and contain day by day lessons which build a common language of skills and genres.
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Day by Day Resource Books
Primary grades need the Resource Book of blackline masters that accompany the handwriting curriculum and the many sentence games, sentence building charts and activities specific to the developmental level of grades K-2. |
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Magnetized Instructional Sentence Shapes with Punctuation
A set of large write-on, wipe-off sentence and punctuation shapes for explicit instruction and modeling are included in each kit. Magnets on the back of the 32 sentence shapes make them easy to display on the classroom white board for teacher and student sentence building and modeling. Students also hold the shapes for interactive learning and speaking/listening skill practice.
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Student Write-on Wipe-Off
Sentence Shapes
Every week students manipulate these small sentence shapes to learn sentence structure and grammar skills. The colors, shapes and manipulation help students understand and internalize the skills.
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Letter Flashcards (Grades K – 3)
The teacher holds up a letter flashcard while students form the letters using a large arm movement, say the sound and key word. Available in cursive and printing. |
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Student Toolbox (Teacher Copy)
Student Toolboxes have a two-fold purpose:
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Online Teacher Resources
Teachers log on to project planners, brainstormers, rubrics, writing models, articles, daily sentence styling and sentence shapes to use on their Promethean or Smart Boards.
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Four-Step Skill Cards
Post on wall after each Four-Step Skill lesson to review daily. |
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Prompt Game Planners
(Grades 1– 5)
Throughout the school year students engage in prompt practice and games.
Size: 8.5" x 11"
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Punctuation Pieces
Fruit Punctuation (Grades K-5)
Using the Instructional Sentence Shapes, teachers model and students manipulate punctuating sentences and dialogue with pairs of bananas as quotation marks, oranges as periods, jalapeño peppers as commas and carrots as exclamation marks. Physically placing punctuation in practice activities helps students internalize placement (14 pieces)
Middle School Punctuation
Teachers use these traditional instructional punctuation pieces to model how to vary sentence structures for purpose and effect. Students learn how to correctly use dashes, parentheses, commas, semi colons, colons, periods, ellipsis, exclamation marks and quotation marks for writing and citing sources.
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