Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Nonfiction Writing K–3

The Write Genre

Classroom activities and mini-lessons that promote writing with clarity, style, and flashes of brilliance.

Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning

Finding the sweet spots in kindergarten literacy.

Literacy Out Loud

Creating vibrant classrooms where talk is the springboard for all learning.

Cultivating Readers

Everything you need to take reading instruction beyond the skills to addressing the will.

How Do I Get Them to Write?

Explore the reading-writing connection using freewriting and mentor texts to motivate and empower students.

"This Is a Great Book!"

101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels.

Literacy 101

Questions and answers that meet the needs of real teachers.

Q Tasks

How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers.

What's Next for this Beginning Writer? Revision

Mini-lessons that take writing from scribbles to script.

Basic Tools for Beginning Writers

How to teach all the skills beginning writers need—from alphabet recognition and spelling to strategies for self-editing and building coherent text.

Substitute Teaching?

Everything you need to get the students on your side and teach them too! Ready-to-use tools, tips, and lesson ideas for every grade from K-8.