The Nonfiction Inquiry Writing Curriculum

This site contains the files created by the Literacy Design Team for the K-5 Nonfiction Inquiry Writing curriculum.

On this page, you will find curriculum materials that relate to all grade levels.In addition, each grade level tab above or to the right leads to a page containing the required grade level objectives, a unit vignette with links to resources, a suggested scope and sequence, sample minilessons, and supporting materials.

You can print out or download any of these files. You’ll only be prompted once per session to enter your domain, username, and password (whatever you use on your computer now). For example:
                          Username: alpha\<your username>
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Be careful to click “back” from a document to return to this site. If you “x” out of a document, you will close out your session.

General Resources

  1. Annotated Bibliography
  2. Glossary of Terms for Nonfiction Inquiry Writing Unit 2008
  3. Minilesson Template

If you want a quick introduction to the materials, watch this 14-minute video from the Literacy Design Team!
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Download the high-resolution video here.
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Finally, each of these pages has a comment feature. You can see the most recent comments on the right. Feel free to use the comment feature to share questions, tips and tricks, ideas, inquiry and nonfiction writing suggestions–whatever might help you as you implement this curriculum.

The 2007-2008 Literacy Design Team