This book provides an organizational framework, detailed models, lessons and practical support for mapping and building grade-specific curriculum across the school year. Using four major types of units of study—strategy, process, genre, and conventions—that integrate reading and writing, Allyn equips teachers to identify and develop big ideas and deep understandings with children. Further, she shows how to use them framing a year, a unit and a lesson in the teaching of reading and writing. 208 pages.