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Home / Our Series - Phonics

To create these new phonics units, Lucy and her coauthors have drawn on all that they know from decades of teaching reading and writing in thousands of classrooms across the world, and they've relied on proven, research-based practices-especially on the work of Isabel Beck, Donna Scanlon, Pat and Jim Cunningham, Rollanda O'Connor, Marilyn Adams, Tim Rasinski, Donald Bear, Wiley Blevins, and the late Marie Clay.

The new Units of Study in Phonics, Grades K-2:

provide a lean and concise instructional pathway in phonics that is realistic and doable, and that taps into kids' skills and energy for tackling the fabulous challenge of learning to read and write,

introduce high-leverage phonics concepts and strategies in a way that keeps pace with students' reading and writing and helps them understand when, how, and why they can use phonics to read and write,

offer delightfully fun and engaging storylines, classroom mascots, songs, chants, rhymes, and games to help students fall head over heels in love with phonics and to create a joyous community of learners,

align with state-of-the-art reading and writing workshops for a coherent approach in which terminology, tools, rituals, and methods are shared in ways that benefit both teachers and kids.

In the hurly-burly of classroom life, every minute you spend on one subject is less time spent on another subject. Lucy and her coauthors aim to protect time for authentic reading and writing, while also helping you teach a rigorous, research-based phonics curriculum.

Units of Study

Small Groups to Support Phonics

Resource Pack & Mentor Texts

Online Resources

WATCH A SAMPLE MINILESSON VIDEO

Purchasing Options
Ordering Guidance:
Each teacher will need one set of Units and one Resource Pack. (Note: The Resource Pack materials for each grade level are extensive and come packed in two boxes.) In addition, schools will need to plan for some other resources including a stuffed elephant or lion (Mabel and Rasheed-our K and grade 1 mascots) for each classroom, plus some other classroom materials, such as white boards and magnetic letters, that many classrooms already have. For a complete list of resources, see inventory/shopping lists: Grade K, Grade 1, and Grade 2.

Phonics Bundles for Grades K-2

School Supply Shopping List (not available from Heinemann)

Phonics Units for Grades K-2

Resource Packs for Each Grade Level

A Note About Resource Packs: The Resource Packs are composed of resources made from good-quality card stock, all beautifully illustrated and printed in 4-color. Resources include alphabet charts, many other types of other charts, letter cards, word cards, picture cards, printed copies of poems and songs, other cards such as onset rime cards and vowel picture cards, and much more-about 40 pounds of resources per grade level! (Note: Resources for each grade level come packed in two boxes.)

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Sample Virtual Mini Lessons in Reading, Writing and Phonics

Also available in Spanish

Teacher Support Videos

Parent/Caregiver Support Videos

Summer School/Virtual Re-Teaching Virtual Resources

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Student-Facing Minilesson Videos

Nearly 1,500 student-facing minilesson videos across the Units of Study in reading, writing, and phonics. With these videos TCRWP staff developers will be "co-teachers" with you-they teach the minilessons on camera, freeing you up for the heart of the teaching: the live conversations, conferring, small group work, and shares you'll manage with your students.

Video Support for Teachers and Parents/Caregivers

A set of very brief videos for teachers are interspersed throughout the unit that suggest and explain adaptations to the units. Each unit also contains a short parent/caregiver video explaining ways to support each child's literacy development across the weeks of the unit.

Quick Guide to Virtual Teaching for the Units of Study

A Quick Guide to Virtual Teaching for the Units of Study, guidance on virtual workshop essentials and best practices, support for setting up routines and systems, and tips for planning and filming your own virtual teaching (PDF)

Note: the Virtual Teaching Resources are designed as a supplement to the print Units of Study series to help teachers adapt instruction for blended and virtual teaching. Teachers must have access to the print Units of Study to activate subscriptions to the Units of Study Virtual Teaching Resources and to successfully teach the Units of Study in remote learning environments.

Subscription Details

Subscriptions are available by grade-level and series (reading, writing, and phonics each offered separately); accessible for the 2020-21 school year (July 20, 2020 - July 19, 2021).

Volume Discount: Order 50 or more subscriptions and save 15%. Offer valid only on subscriptions. Okay to mix and match grade levels and series.

Subscriptions are not shareable. Each subscription includes access to resources for one teacher and up to 75 of that teacher's own students in grades K-5 (this number is designed to accommodate departmentalized intermediate-grade classrooms), and for one teacher and up to 150 of that teacher's own students in grades 6-8.

TCRWP Virtual Teaching Resources subscriptions are available ONLY to users of the Units of Study who have active Online Resource accounts and who have registered their print Units of Study books in their Online Resource accounts. Educators will be required to register their print units before they will be able to access corresponding UOS Virtual Teaching Resources (detailed instructions on how to register are included in the frontmatter of the print Guides and Unit Books).

Units included in each UOS Virtual Teaching Resources Subscription were chosen based on the TCRWP 2020-21 Suggested Sequence, also taking into account how readily each unit could be adapted for virtual teaching.

The Units of Study Virtual Teaching Resources were created to save teachers time and reduce stress as they adapt Units of Study for virtual and blended teaching. As an added bonus, the student-facing minilesson videos recorded by TCRWP staff developers offer great PD as well. The UOS Virtual Teaching Resources allow teachers' time to be reserved for the more intensive parts of reading and writing workshops-assessment, conferring, small groups, feedback. Lucy's team has also created teacher-facing videos and additional PDF resources for adapted workshop instruction (downloadable checklists, charts, etc.). Parent and caregiver videos provide additional support to kids when they aren't with their teacher.

Users of the Units of Study in reading, writing, and phonics, grades K-8, who are engaged in blended or virtual teaching

Schools and districts that have made a commitment to follow the TCRWP 2020-21 Suggested Sequence in the coming school year

Schools and districts that are looking for ways to reduce teacher stress and promote efficient remote teaching and learning

Schools and districts that can benefit from new options for struggling students, kids who are absent, substitute teachers, after school programs, and other similar circumstances where video minilessons can be a help

The UOS Virtual Teaching Resources offer abbreviated (5-10 min.), student-facing minilesson videos for every session in each of the Units selected by TCRWP for inclusion in this specialized 2020-21 sequence. Each separate grade-level, series-specific subscription for reading, writing, and phonics includes 5 units per series in elementary grades and 4 units per series in middle school at a cost of $100 per year-long subscription.

Note that not all the units in the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources are from the core sets of grade-level units (the printed spiral units). In some cases, Lucy and her colleagues have included units sold separately from the core sets (e.g. Mystery or Up the Ladder). If teachers don't already have those units, they will need to order them. The coauthors have also included some new units they have written specifically for the 2020-21 school year, and, in a couple of cases, they've borrowed a unit from the grade before to begin the year. Digital access to those units will be included with the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources subscription.

To learn more about which units are included for each grade level and series, please see the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources brochure and refer to the charts beginning on page 5. Those charts indicate all the units included in the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources along with details on where each unit comes from (i.e. core sets, available separately, new and included in the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources). Note that some of the minilesson videos have been recorded in both English and Spanish. A complete list of units tentatively planned to be offered in Spanish can be found on page 7 in the series brochure.

In addition to the minilesson videos, TCRWP coauthors have created teacher-facing videos and have recorded videos to help parents and other caregivers navigate instruction across each unit, along with a Quick Guide to support teachers as they teach remotely. These digital materials will be available via the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources site.

How do the subscriptions work?

Subscriptions are available for each grade level and each UOS series (reading, writing, phonics, each available separately by grade). Each subscription is set up to be used by one teacher with resources that can be shared with that teacher's own students (up to 75 students for grades K-5; up to 150 students for grades 6-8). Note that each teacher is required to have his or her own UOS Virtual Teaching Resources subscription (not shareable, not transferrable).

Subscriptions are fulfilled by email. Each school or district must designate one Subscription Delivery Recipient who will be responsible for receiving, distributing, and tracking the school or district's subscriptions. It is essential that Heinemann receive name, email address, and phone number for the person who will be responsible for distributing codes (Subscription Delivery Recipient) in order to fulfill orders. That individual will receive one Subscription Activation Code for every series and grade level ordered.

Activation Codes will each be set up to allow the number of subscriptions purchased to be activated (e.g. If a school orders phonics grade 1 subscriptions for 5 teachers and reading grade 3 subscriptions for 8 teachers, they will receive one Activation Code for UOS in Phonics Virtual Teaching Resources, Gr. 1 that can be used five times and one Activation Code for UOS for Teaching Reading Virtual Teaching Resources, Gr. 3 that can be used eight times.).

Then, each teacher will use their Activation Code(s) to register their UOS Virtual Teaching Resources in their Heinemann Online Resources account the same way they have registered their print units.

Each UOS Virtual Teaching Resources subscription is linked to the teacher's Online Resources for the corresponding print Units of Study and cannot be activated without the print Online Resources being registered. If teachers have not previously registered their print units in Online Resources, they must register those Online Resources before they will be able to access their corresponding UOS Virtual Teaching Resources. Detailed instructions on how to register print units are located in the frontmatter of the unit books. To complete registration for the print units, teachers must have access to their unit books.

Subscriptions are available for the 2020-21 school year, beginning July 20, 2020 and ending July 19, 2021. Subscriptions that start after the July 20, 2020 date will not be prorated.

How do teachers share minilesson videos and other resources with students?

Each teacher will set up a class login that will be used by that teacher's students and their parents/caregivers (up to 75 students for each K-5 teacher and up to 150 for each 6-8 teacher). Teachers will share daily links by copying and pasting them from their teacher dashboard into their regular communications with students via whatever learning management system (LMS) they are using (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.). Students will use the links to view minilesson videos and download any related resources needed for each day's instruction. Videos are meant to be used asynchronously and kids can view them as many times as needed.

In some cases, the units included in the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources are those Heinemann offers outside the core sets of print units. Teachers will need copies of those unit books and will need to order if they don't already have them.

In the cases where TCRWP has included brand new units or units from another grade level that are not available for separate purchase, access to those units will be provided online (not printable, not downloadable).

All resources needed to teach the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources are listed on the order form, in the brochure, and in the Trade Books required for the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources (see question/answer below for details about trade books required to use the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources). Educators can use that information to do an inventory of the print UOS resources they already have and those they will need to purchase.

Will these resources be compatible with our systems?

The UOS Virtual Teaching Resources have been tested on all major browsers on both Mac and Windows platforms, along with Android and iOS tablets and phones. JavaScript must be enabled, and cookies must be accepted to open the minilesson videos.

In order to use the Units of Study Virtual Teaching Resources, you will need to make sure you have the trade books that are referenced as teaching texts throughout the minilesson videos. In many cases the mentor texts/read-aloud texts that are used are the same as those in the corresponding print product, but in some cases new trade books that are not included in the print product's trade book pack are used in the Virtual Teaching Resources. In other cases, new units and stand alone units that are available for separate purchase (such as Show and Tell Writing for Kindergarten) will require trade books outside of those included in the trade book pack of the core units. Any books that are NOT included in the trade book pack for each grade's core print units are marked in the below list in bolded red text. These trade books are available from a variety of online resellers, but unlike the trade book packs for print products, are not available for order through Heinemann.

View the complete list of Trade Books Required for the UOS Virtual Teaching Resources
Note: The Phonics Virtual Teaching Resources does not require any trade books
Each year, the TCRWP staff developers create a new recommended sequence for teaching the Units. This year, their recommended sequence was written to take into account the disruptions that occurred at the end of the 2019-20 school year and ongoing challenges of virtual and blended teaching and learning. The UOS Virtual Teaching Resources were developed based on the published TCRWP 2020-21 Suggested Sequence, but also depart from that document at points to incorporate TCRWP's newest thinking on how best to meet students' and teachers' needs in the 2020-21 school year.

A few of the minilesson videos are being recorded in both English and Spanish. Units with minilessons tentatively planned to be offered in Spanish are listed on page 7 of the series brochure.

Once an order has been placed, how do schools/districts distribute the subscription activation keycodes to teachers?

Once the order is processed, the Subscription Delivery Recipient whose email address was provided on your pdf/excel order form (or the person placing the order in the case of online orders) will receive an order confirmation email listing all the activation keycodes for the subscriptions that your school or district ordered along with information indicating how many times each code can be used to activate a new subscription. DO NOT TEST THE CODES UNLESS YOU ARE MEANT TO BE THE END USER OF THE SUBSCRIPTION.

Please note that this confirmation email contains the codes for ALL subscriptions purchased, so the email must not be forwarded to all teachers.

Instead, you can copy/paste the keycodes for each teacher into the Subscription Activation Email Template.

Edit any fields that are in red and insert the appropriate information from your order confirmation email and, if you wish, delete the unnecessary rows.

You should create a separate email for each teacher who will activate subscriptions.

The email template provides instructions for activating subscriptions.

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Units of Study Virtual Teaching Resources for the 2020-2021 School Year

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Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

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Unit Examples

If/Then Differentiated Instruction

Performance Assessment

Writing Workshop Guide

Spanish Resources

Orientation Videos

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Home / Our Series - K-5 Writing

A Workshop Curriculum for Kindergarten-Grade 5

High Expectations, Achievable Goals

The writing units of study help teachers provide their students with instruction, opportunities for practice, and concrete doable goals to help them meet and exceed any set of high standards.

Proven Tools and Methods

It is an understatement to say these units have been piloted many times. The teaching in these books has been planned, taught, revised, and retaught, through a cycle of improvement involving literally thousands of classrooms in schools dotting the globe.

A Clear Instructional Arc

Each writing unit represents about five to six weeks of teaching, structured into three or four "bends in the road." Rather than tackling the entire journey all at once, it's easier to embark on this series of shorter, focused bends, pausing between each to regroup and prepare for the next.

A Guide to the Writing Workshop

Describes the essential principles, methods, and structures of effective writing workshop instruction. (Available for separate purchase-ideal for administrators and coaches who are supporting implementation of Units of Study.)

Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions

A powerful assessment system offering learning progressions, performance assessments, student checklists, rubrics, and leveled writing exemplars. (Available in a K-8 version - ideal for administrators and coaches)

Trade Book Packs
(recommended optional purchase)

Across each unit, trade books are used to model effective writing techniques, encourage students to read as writers, and provide background knowledge.

Up the Ladder

Just getting started with the Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing? Consider the Up the Ladder units to accelerate intermediate students' progress to the work they will do in the grade-level units. Who should choose the Up the Ladder units?

Teachers in grades 3-6 whose students are new to writing workshop

Teachers in grades 3 and up who want to help students accelerate their progress in writing

Teachers in intermediate grades who want to give their students a refresher in writing workshop fundamentals

Note that Up the Ladder units are not meant to be an alternative to the core Units of Study, but rather a ramp to accelerate kids to the grade-level work they will do in those units.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Overview

Getting Started

Workshop Methods

Assessment

The Grades K-5 Units

Purchasing Options

Series Bundles

Purchase Recommendation: choose the bundle with the Trade Book Packs if your library does not already include the mentor texts referenced in the Units.

Each Grade Level with Trade Pack

Each Grade Level without Trade Pack

Additional Units of Study for Selected Grade Levels

The TCRWP is a learning organization that is continuously building on their earlier work. These additional book-length units fit tongue-and-groove with the original grades K, 2, and 5 units. Additionally, Small Moments, the first unit in the core set of first grade writing units, is available for separate purchase.

Guides to the Writing Workshop

A copy of the appropriate Guide is included in your Units box. These Guides are offered as an optional purchase for administrators and coaches.

Trade Packs

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If/Then Differentiated Instruction

Performance Assessment

Reading Workshop Guide

Spanish Resources

Orientation Videos

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Home / Our Series - K-2 Reading

The new primary Units of Study in Reading offer teachers concrete ways to bring the best of science of reading research-including explicit teaching of 'slider power,' engaging decodable texts, and an emphasis on knowledge generation-into vibrant workshop classrooms.

Please Note: Some components are only sold separately, outside of the core unit kits.

Decodable Books Overview

The Jump Rope Readers series consists of sixty-six high-interest decodable books, and six accompanying read-alouds that are just right for kids who are learning how to read. The titles in this series gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction. Jump Rope Readers are engaging and meaningful books that help beginning readers develop their foundational word recognition skills.

Digital Content Overview

Online Resources (included with the core units sets) offer digital access to:

anchor charts

assessment tools

demonstration texts

small group and conferring tools

instructional videos

Spanish-language video introductions for every session across all units

Spanish translations of teaching points, anchor charts, and assessment resources

Premium Digital Content (available by subscription as an optional purchase to users of the core units sets) includes:

videos of staff developers teaching all minilessons (ideal for teacher professional learning and for remote teaching)

digital access to all of the books in the core units set

Both the Online Resources included with every core set and the Premium Digital Subscriptions for the new units will be hosted on a brand-new platform that will organize digital content all in one place and allow administrators to monitor and manage teachers' access.
Check back for more information about the new platform.
The minilesson videos in the Premium Digital Subscriptions for grades K-2 are designed to serve as valuable exemplars for effective, concise, and engaging minilessons, exemplars that can help teachers lift the level of their teaching. Each minilesson is modeled by a TCRWP staff developer and can serve as powerful professional learning for individual teachers and for teams as they plan instruction. Additionally, teachers may share these videos directly with students to support remote teaching.

Ordering Information

The online ordering links below list all the purchasing options for the new K-2 Reading Units of Study. Be sure to reach out to your local Heinemann sales rep for guidance with purchasing.

Contact Your Rep

New K-2 Reading Units

Required Trade Book Packs (English)

Related Resources

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Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners Through Books

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Gr. 1 Example