Calkins, Lucy

[This book offers the] support students' abilities to be strategic, metacognitive writers who use particular processes to achieve particular purpose as writers. Also helps studetns learn to use writing as a tool for learning across the day and throughout their richly literate lives -- p. 4.

"This book offers an assessment system that can be used across a district, school or classroom. Three intertwined Pre-K-6 learning progressions, one each in opinion, information, and narrative writing, are at the center of this systems. These learning progressions are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and to our knowledge of the teaching or writing, and they have been piloted, in conjunction with the other tools in this system, in tens of thousands of classrooms."--Page 2.

[This book] represents about six weeks of teaching, and within those six weeks, the unit supports several cycles of drafting, revision, and publication. The units align with the three types of writing specified in the Common Core State Standards -- p. 4.