January 2026 - The Writing Revolution - Empower teachers to help students

January 2026

Featured Resources

Happy New Year! This month’s featured resources are designed to help you start 2026 with confidence—supporting intentional writing instruction without adding to your plate, from revising unelaborated paragraphs to integrating writing across content areas.

Strategy Spotlight

❄️The Unelaborated Paragraph

19 Resources

Revision is a skill that must be explicitly taught! Students practice a set of TWR sentence-level strategies, then apply them to revise an unelaborated paragraph. Learn more in the Watch & Learn video.

ALL GRADES

Incorporating Deliberate Practice: Building to the Unelaborated Paragraph

Elementary, Secondary

Winter Theme: Build to the Unelaborated Paragraph

Customizable

GRADES K-2

Winter Theme: Build to the Unelaborated Paragraph

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions

AI-EDITABLE

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions

AI-EDITABLE

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: without explicit instructions

AI-EDITABLE

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions (teacher-provided image)

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • English

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions

AI-EDITABLE

Customizable

GRADES K-2 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions

Customizable

GRADES 3-12 • Spanish

Unelaborated Paragraph: with explicit instructions

Customizable

TWR Activity Series

🎉 New Year’s Writing Activities

2 Resources

Celebrate the New Year while strengthening students’ sentence- and paragraph-level writing skills with TWR strategies!

GRADES K-2

New Year’s Flipbook – Bulletin Board Bundle

Customizable

Elementary

New Year’s Flipbook – Bulletin Board Bundle

Customizable

Article & TWR Activity Series

✏️ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

3 Resources

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, students read and write about his visionary leadership through an article and a series of TWR activities.

Elementary

(Elementary) Dr. Martin Luther King: A Leader for Change – Article & Series of TWR Activities

Customizable

GRADES K-2

(K–2) Dr. Martin Luther King: A Leader for Change – Article & Series of TWR Activities

Customizable

Secondary

(Secondary) Dr. Martin Luther King: A Leader for Change – Article & Series of TWR Activities

Customizable

TWR Activity Series

🧮 Math Writing Activities

2 Resources

Integrate writing and math as students analyze shapes and measurements through real-world problems using TWR strategies.

GRADES K-2

Analyzing Shapes – Series of TWR Activities

Customizable

Elementary

Getting Ready for the Bake Sale – Series of TWR Activities

Customizable

Document Analysis

🏭 The Industrial Revolution

6 Resources

Using TWR strategies, students analyze primary and secondary sources about the Industrial Revolution, then plan an essay response using one of three scaffolded TWR outlines: PTO, TO, or MPO.