Why Use Writable with HMH Into Reading?
HMH Into Reading is a comprehensive literacy and language arts curriculum, combining reading, writing, speaking and listening, foundational and grammar skills instruction and available for Writable in grades 3-6. When paired with Into Reading, Writable can enhance your literacy skills instruction, and support your students voice and critical thinking skills while writing. Writable is a powerful tool that provides:
A platform for daily writing practice with combined reading and writing skills instruction.
Small group and targeted practice lessons, and options for digital stations.
Writing extensions and practice for every genre or skill.
Peer review, real time conferencing, and scaffolding to support Writer’s Workshop.
Assignments for every Into Reading grade level and Module including:
Daily Writing in Response to Text
Module Performance Tasks
Writer’s Workshop for Process Writing
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How does Writable work with Ed?
In order to use Writable with Into Reading assignments, both students and teachers need to login to Writable from Ed to connect their accounts.
Teachers must login at least one time in order to populate HMH curricular assignments in Writable.
Students must login to Writable one time from Ed in order to access HMH assignments, and their digital myBook. All student submissions and feedback are completed and viewed in Writable.
All teacher feedback and grading must be completed in Writable.
Digital myBook
All of Into Reading’s writing in response to text assignments in Writable contain an embedded digital myBook also found on Ed. This allows teachers to easily combine their reading and writing instruction within Writable. Teachers can use the Assign to Me option to model using the digital myBook in class.
Students can highlight and annotate text in the digital myBook and complete work on Ed or in Writable; all work syncs between both platforms. Students can make the digital myBook full screen, and access their notes and annotations using the notes icon.
Note: The annotation feature in the digital myBook is separate from Writable’s annotation tools, which are available for pdf or other texts in Writable.
Writable Assignments for HMH Into Reading
HMH Into Reading is built around 12 curricular modules of instruction of three weeks each. Into Reading’s learning model provides daily opportunities for instruction in close reading and comprehension skills, writing in response to text, and process writing. During Reading Workshop for grades 3-6, students read a variety of genre texts in the MyBook. Writable contains writing prompts and assignments for each lesson and module in Into Reading. Below is a sample unit of instruction for Into Reading, and corresponding Writable assignments:
MyBook Daily Lesson Writing in Response to Text
End of Module Performance Task
Writer’s Workshop
Daily Lesson Writing in Response to Text
Response to Text Assignments are an excellent choice for:
Providing daily opportunities for writing in response to reading.
Finding a variety of tasks for students to demonstrate their understanding of the lesson.
At the end of each lesson in the Mybook, students are asked to demonstrate their understanding of the text while citing textual evidence to support their response. Each lesson’s writing prompt has been recreated in Writable, allowing you to incorporate Writable’s AI student supports and rubrics into your daily lesson. Writable provides side by side reading and writing, allowing students to revisit the text and annotations while gather their evidence for their response.
End of Module Performance Tasks
Module Performance Tasks are an excellent choice for:
Students reflecting and synthesizing information from multiple texts in a module, especially if working through all lessons in order.
Building in additional opportunities for expository and argument writing.
Common writing assessment or benchmarks to monitor student progress on genre skills throughout the year.
Every module in Into Reading is organized around a common theme and Essential Question introduced in the Module Launch, with a different disciplinary focus for each module. Each lesson and writing task helps students deepen understanding of the module theme. At the end of the module, students are presented with a performance task, asking them to revisit each MyBook text, synthesize information learned into a culminating performance task, with a focus on expository or argument writing. Performance tasks can provide valuable information on students' understanding and application of content learned throughout a module, and an indicator of genre writing progress.
Writing Workshop
Each module of Into Reading contains one process writing performance task, broken into fifteen daily lessons for three weeks of writing instruction. Writing Workshop prompts align with and reinforce the concepts and skills taught during reading workshop, and are intended to guide and scaffold students throughout the entire writing process. Writing Workshop provides instructional resources, mentor texts, and anchor charts to explicitly teach and model the writing process. Instructional best practices include targeted feedback on rubrics, opportunities for peer review and revisions, and needs based small group support and conferencing. Writable can support teachers' goals in each of these key areas for Writer’s Workshop.
Writable’s HMH Into Reading assignment collections, you’ll find one assignment for each Writing Workshop module of instruction.
Writer’s Workshop assignments are intended to guide and scaffold students through each stage of the writing process, and provide all instructional resources in a single place. Assignments included anchor charts to explicitly teach skills, student models, and other resources found in your Writer’s Workshop Teacher’s Guide. Assignments include student friendly rubrics allowing students to complete peer review to guide revision, or teachers to provide targeted feedback for students.
Writable for ¡Arriba La Lectura!
¡Arriba La Lectura! is a comprehensive Spanish language arts curriculum, often paired with HMH Into Reading to support multilingual learners in biliteracy, or dual language settings. Similar to Into Reading, ¡Arriba la Lectura! provides 12 modules of instruction in reading, writing, and language skills development and Spanish language resources for all Into Reading lessons. Writable provides full Spanish translations of assignments, prompts, and rubrics for ¡Arriba la Lectura! in the following:
miLibro escritura diaria en respuesta al texto (daily writing in response to text)
Tarea del rendimiento del fin del módulo (end of module performance task
Taller de escritura (Writer’s Workshop)
5 Tips for Using Writable with your Curriculum
Start Small and Build Up: Creating a High 5 Quick-Write is the best way to introduce Writable to your students. These quick write prompts are easily created and tailored to your lesson or reading, and can target any skill to meet your daily goal. Check out “AI Prompt Suggestions” for results powered by ChatGPT. Once students are familiar with Writable, then assign Into Reading curricular assignments.
Use Writable for small group practice, or as a digital literacy station: Writable provides skills lessons and grammar practice as well as small group targeted recommendations for next steps. Use the Proficiency and Recommendations Report to assign additional aligning practice for independent completion during your literacy centers rotations.
Maximize your Impact in Writer’s Workshop with Writable’s feedback and revision supports: Small group conferencing, peer review and targeted feedback are critical to revision and achieving growth during Writer’s Workshop. Writable’s Instant Conference allows you to connect with students in real time, earlier in the writing process. Make feedback accessible and personal with audio/video messages for students. Provide anonymous peer review so students can learn from each other. Save time by using AI Suggested Comments. Lastly, easily track revisions using Writable’s Revision Spotlights.
Customize your assignments to make it your own: Writable allows you to create or customize anything. Add readings, custom prompts, video links, or graphic organizers to any assignment. If you’re working with a state or district level rubric, you can add it to any assignment or a Module Performance Task to create a benchmark assessment.
Support multilingual learners with Writable: In addition to fully equitable Spanish assignments in ¡Arriba La Lectura! Writable offers a number of supports for multilingual learners. Provide Spanish translations to your students on all rubric items, or check out Time for Kids en Espanol assignments. Assign Grammar and Writing Skills Mini Lessons in Spanish to help with skill development, or provide feedback in Spanish with AI Suggested Comments.