If...Then...Curriculum: assessment-based instruction, grade K -- A guide to the common core writing workshop, primary grades -- Writing pathways: performance assessments and learning progressions, grades K-5 -- Lessons from the Masters: improving narrative writing -- Lab reports and science books -- Writing about reading -- Poetry: big thoughts in small packages -- Anchor-chart notes -- Owl moon -- The leaving morning -- Old Elm speaks: tree poems -- Forces and motion.