A Bridge Between Reading and Writing

Imagine Learning Guidebooks Grades 3-5 (2024) integrated writing approach provides students with a clear connection between reading and writing. As Lessons guide students to read and write-to-learn, they are also instructed in necessary writing skills to fully demonstrate both their understanding and their ideas about the content explored in each unit. Imagine Learning Guidebooks Grades 3-5 (2024) writing activities are varied, engaging, standards-aligned, and deeply rooted in the text. The lessons provide students with the writing skills necessary to develop their agency in communicating ideas about the knowledge they are building in the unit. Writing activities develop skills starting at the sentence level, building to paragraphs and include notetaking approaches. Students engage in Imagine Learning’s unique approach to reading and writing as processes, designed to deepen their cont

ent knowledge, improve reading comprehension and oral language abilities, and foster habits of learning including self-reflection, revision, persistence, as well as critical and analytical thinking.

Stages of Reading as a Process	Bridging Activities	Stages of Writing as a Process
Framing the Text 1st Draft Reading 2nd Draft Closer Reading Collaboration Analysis and Synthesis	Sentence Construction	Brainstorming and Planning Organizing and Outlining Drafting Self-Reflection and Revision Feedback and Revision Publishing
	Paragraph
	Note Taking

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