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Course Overview

The reviewer's home for the whole Supplemental Support System. Here you can trace every rubric to exactly where it is met, and find the complete implementation guide in one place.
PURPOSE
This page is the home for the whole Supplemental Support System, with the rubric alignment and the complete implementation guide in one place.
RATIONALE
Seeing every rubric traced to where it is met, next to the guides that explain the design, shows a teacher how the pieces work together.
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE
Start with IMRA Rubric Alignment, then open the implementation guide. Grade reference reports and connection activities are further down the page.
The Writing Academy Supplemental Support System

The Writing Academy is a supplemental Reading Language Arts support with a writing focus, built to stand beside any core curriculum for Grades 3 through 5. This overview gathers the pieces a reviewer needs: the IMRA rubric alignment charts, the implementation guides, and the scope and sequence, each connected to the exact materials that prove it.

Writing Workouts

Whole group, Tier 1 SmartBoard tools for the writing process: Check MATE for thesis statements and OnRAMP for main idea and theme. The class talks, the teacher types, and each tool shows the thinking level and the next best move.
Writing Workouts
Grades 3 to 5. Check MATE and OnRAMP, with Activate support now in each.
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Implementation Videos

Randi Whitney walks through how to use The Writing Academy alongside your core RLA curriculum, in six short parts. Watch them in order, or jump to the part you need. Every video has captions and a transcript.
Part 1 · 6 min
Purpose, Approaches, and Connected Content
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Part 2 · 4 min
Daily Implementation
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Part 3 · 4 min
Classroom Examples
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Part 4 · 2 min
Evidence and Pacing
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Part 5 · 3 min
Extensions and Getting Started
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Part 6 · 3 min
Credentials
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Training Videos

Short trainings from Randi Whitney on the ideas behind the approach: the GRADUATE Infinity Learning Cycle, the forgetting curve, and distributed learning. Every video has captions and a transcript.
Training Video · 7 min
The GRADUATE Infinity Learning Cycle
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Training Video · 3 min
The Forgetting Curve
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Training Video · 3 min
The Distributed Learning Process
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Research Article

The research behind the approach: explicit Tier One teaching, the forgetting curve, distributed learning, the gradual release of responsibility, the GRADUATE Infinity Learning Cycle, and OnRAMP.
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A Stable Foundation for Every Writer
The research-informed foundations of explicit Tier One teaching, GRADUATE, and OnRAMP. By The Writing Academy®, LLC.
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Acronym and Framework Glossary

Every acronym and named framework used across our materials, spelled out with what it means for teachers and where you will see it.
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Glossary
Search the glossary online, or download the printable PDF.
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IMRA Rubric Alignment

Form B is our official rubric alignment for the IMRA review. Every indicator links to the exact page in our materials, for Grades 3, 4, and 5.
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IMRA Rubric Alignment: Form B
Open the IMRA Accountability page to download Form B for each grade and follow every link to the evidence.
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Supplemental Support System Implementation Guide

The teacher-facing guides that explain how the whole system works, being rebuilt in our own branding so everything lives together in one clean place.
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Grade 3 Implementation Guide
The daily practice, pacing calendars, and TEKS for the 20 minute Standards block, tied to every Grade 3 material.
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Grade 4 Implementation Guide
The daily practice, pacing calendars, and TEKS for the 20 minute Standards block, tied to every Grade 4 material.
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Grade 5 Implementation Guide
The daily practice, pacing calendars, and TEKS for the 20 minute Standards block, tied to every Grade 5 material.
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Grade 3 Teacher Support Overview
The Grade 3 teacher support companion: scripts, slide decks, supports, assessments, training, guides, and apps.
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Grade 4 Teacher Support Overview
The Grade 4 teacher support companion: scripts, slide decks, supports, assessments, training, guides, and apps.
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Grade 5 Teacher Support Overview
The Grade 5 teacher support companion: scripts, slide decks, supports, assessments, training, guides, and apps.
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ECR Threaded Learning Model Pacing Framework
The one-look pacing chart: how the model threads across the week and the year, so a single idea stays unmistakable.
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Purpose and Implementation Framework
Why the Supplemental Support System exists and how to put it to work, aligned to the IMRA cycle.
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Supplemental Support System Teacher Guide
How the clusters, modules, learning cycles, resources, and assessments work together.
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Writing Academy Ecosystem Guide
The full ecosystem of supports around each writing lesson.
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GRADUATE Infinity Learning Cycle
The learning cycle that carries a student through every module.
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GRADUATE Infinity Journey
The student's journey and destination across the year.
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ISBN Guide and Key
How every product's ISBN works, the document code key for Course Overview supporting materials, and the full product ISBN list by grade and family.
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Ordering and Pricing

The current price sheet for the Supplemental Support System, ready to open right in your browser.
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Price Sheet
The current price sheet for the Supplemental Support System, by grade and by component.
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Scope, Sequence, and Standards

The grade by grade plan and the standards trace that anchor every lesson.
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Grade 3 to 5 Scope and Sequence
Student expectations, skills taught, and the rationale, including 7C.
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TEKS Connections
Trace any TEKS to the teacher, student, and assessment materials that carry it.
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Grade 3 Reference Reports

The at-a-glance reports that map the Grade 3 year: pacing, clusters, genres, passages, frameworks, and games. The Grade 4 and Grade 5 versions of these will follow.
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Pacing Calendars
The Grade 3 pacing calendars, cluster by cluster across the year.
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Clusters at a Glance
All nine Grade 3 clusters on one map, so the whole year reads at a glance.
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Writing Genre and Response-Type Progression
How the writing genres and response types build across the Grade 3 clusters.
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Passages and Source Index
Every Grade 3 reading passage and its source, indexed in one place.
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Interactive Games Index
The Grade 3 interactive games, indexed to the skills they practice.
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Grade 3 Connection Activities

The Core Curriculum Connection Activities, one per module, showing how The Writing Academy writing plugs straight into the Bluebonnet core the state already gives your district. Run each one from their content or from ours.
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Prepare Connection Activities
Genre selection and narrative, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 1 Connection Activities
The Short Constructed Response ladder, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 2 Connection Activities
The Extended Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 3 Connection Activities
The full TREES response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 4 Connection Activities
ECR craft, one sentence at a time, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 5 Connection Activities
Paired passage response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 6 Connection Activities
Argumentative writing, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 7 Connection Activities
Poetry, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 8 Connection Activities
The research capstone, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Grade 4 Reference Reports

The at-a-glance reports that map the Grade 4 year: pacing, clusters, genres, passages, frameworks, games, and the TEKS and ELPS coverage map.
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Pacing Calendars
The Grade 4 pacing calendars, cluster by cluster across the year.
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Clusters at a Glance
All the Grade 4 clusters on one map, so the whole year reads at a glance.
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Writing Genre and Response-Type Progression
How the writing genres and response types build across the Grade 4 clusters.
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Passages and Source Index
Every Grade 4 reading passage and its source, indexed in one place.
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Interactive Games Index
The Grade 4 interactive games, indexed to the skills they practice.
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TEKS and ELPS Coverage Map
The full map of which TEKS and ELPS the Grade 4 program covers, and where.
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Grade 4 Connection Activities

The Core Curriculum Connection Activities for Grade 4, one per module, showing how The Writing Academy writing plugs straight into the Bluebonnet core the state already gives your district.
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Prepare Connection Activities
Genre selection and narrative, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 1 Connection Activities
The Short Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 2 Connection Activities
The Extended Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 3 Connection Activities
The full TREES response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 4 Connection Activities
Argumentative writing with CREATURES, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 5 Connection Activities
The Extended Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 6 Connection Activities
Argumentative writing, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 7 Connection Activities
Informational response to poetry, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 8 Connection Activities
The research capstone, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Grade 5 Reference Reports

The at-a-glance reports that map the Grade 5 year: pacing, clusters, genres, passages, frameworks, games, and the TEKS and ELPS coverage map.
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Pacing Calendars
The Grade 5 pacing calendars, cluster by cluster across the year.
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Clusters at a Glance
All the Grade 5 clusters on one map, so the whole year reads at a glance.
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Writing Genre and Response-Type Progression
How the writing genres and response types build across the Grade 5 clusters.
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Passages and Source Index
Every Grade 5 reading passage and its source, indexed in one place.
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Interactive Games Index
The Grade 5 interactive games, indexed to the skills they practice.
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TEKS and ELPS Coverage Map
The full map of which TEKS and ELPS the Grade 5 program covers, and where.
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Grade 5 Connection Activities

The Core Curriculum Connection Activities for Grade 5, one per module, showing how The Writing Academy writing plugs straight into the Bluebonnet core the state already gives your district.
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Prepare Connection Activities
Genre selection and personal narrative, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 1 Connection Activities
The Short Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 2 Connection Activities
The Extended Constructed Response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 3 Connection Activities
Response to poetry and drama, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 4 Connection Activities
Argumentative writing with CREATURES, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 5 Connection Activities
Paired passage response, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 6 Connection Activities
Argumentative letter writing, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 7 Connection Activities
Narrative and poetry, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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Cluster 8 Connection Activities
The research capstone, one activity per module, tied to the Bluebonnet core.
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