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Irish dancing? Kate Bishop wrote the book on it.
In fact, every first grader in Nikki Haitz’s Lakeside Elementary classroom wrote books on topics they know about.
The project was part of the Lucy Calkins Unit of Study Writing, where students learned and implemented strategies to write nonfiction chapter books, Haitz explained. The unit begins with children writing a basic informational picture book and ends with students planning, writing and revising informational chapter books on a topic they consider themselves experts on.
The unit allows students numerous opportunities to self-assess their writing on the various elements introduced, which helps instill the habit of reflection and goal-setting as a writer, Haitz added.