Reading and Writing Grade by Grade is an indispensable tool for analyzing literacy skills and setting specific targets for learning for your kindergartners through third graders. Here you'll discover what abilities and understandings children at each grade level K-3 can be expected to have about the print-sound code, comprehension, reading and writing habits, written genres, and language use and conventions.Along with thoughtful commentary and suggestions for instruction, the book and companion DVD include dozens of examples of children's writing, samples of oral reading, and videos of children discussing books and following written directions. Drawn from real classrooms, these work samples show just what makes for competent performance in kindergarten through third grade.Part of the influential New Standards project, ""Reading and Writing Grade by Grade"" is informed by the best thinking of a committee of distinguished educators: Marilyn Jager Adams; Rosalinda B. Barrera; Lucy Calkins; Courtney B. Cazden; Phil Daro; Barbara R. Foorman; Mary Ellen Giacobbe; Angela M. Jaggar; P. David Pearson; Charles Perfetti; Gay Su Pinnell; Susan (Fitzgerald) Powell; Dorothy S. Strickland; Elizabeth Sulzby; Sharon Taberski; William Teale; Josefina Tinajero; Maria Utevsky; and Gordon Wells.