The Up the Ladder books are designed for children in grades 3-6 who may not yet have had many opportunities to practice writing narrative, information, and opinion pieces, or might not have had those experiences in workshop-style classrooms. The units are designed to give young people the opportunity to engage in repeated successful practice and to move rapidly along a gradually increasing progression of challenges -- Back cover.

This unit is written by Lucy Calkins, Hareem Atif Khan, and Shana Frazin.