Every Child a Writer (ECAW) is a comprehensive, structured, assessment-driven, differentiated writing program. ECAW ensures student success and growth in writing by providing incremental, developmentally appropriate expectations that gradually increase over time. Every Child a Writer includes the following resources for students and teachers: target skill mini-lessons, including teacher tips and student displays; planning for writing; organization in writing; sentence structure; vocabulary; spelling (encoding); grammar and usage; mechanics; revision; editing; publishing; anchor writing plans for teacher sharing and student display; anchor texts for teacher sharing and student display; assessments for placement and progress monitoring; Proficiency Validation Plans (PVPs) for progress monitoring and reporting; and daily independent writing activities. This text is the teacher's guide for instruction of students in the Every Child a Writer program. The program is divided into eleven (11) developmental stages for instruction. Each stage includes four instructional products, each of which includes resources for 45 days of instruction. This product, Real Event 2, is the third product in the third stage, Transitional. In this product, students write single paragraphs to tell about (recount) common experiences (with the teacher and independently).