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The Reading & Writing Project - The TCRWP’s 2016-2017 Suggested Sequence for Units of Study. Literacy / First 20 Days - Launching Reading Workshop. The Literacy Teacher's Playbook- Jennifer Serravallo. Reading Workshop - Information, ideas, and resources from Busy Teacher's Cafe. The Reading Workshop is a teaching method in which the goal is to teach students strategies for reading and comprehension. The workshop model allows teachers to differentiate and meet the needs of all their students. Reading Workshop helps to foster a love of reading and gives students chances to practice reading strategies independently and with guidance.

This workshop model is similar to the Writing Workshop model. Many school districts use the Reading Workshop Model but there are other models of literacy instruction as well. Please see Balanced Literacy Framework page for more information on another literacy model of instruction. If you plan to use the Reading Workshop Model, you should teach phonics and word work at another time.

This page gives a basic overview of the Reading Workshop. Components of the Reading Workshop: Description of each component: From Revisiting The Reading Workshop. Writer's Workshop Resources and Ideas. The majority of time of Writing Workshop is devoted to independent writing. During this time, students are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their pieces. Depending on the age and abilities of your students, independent writing can be as short as 15 minutes or as long as 45-60 minutes. It helps to build stamina with your class, beginning with a short amount of time and building that time until they can work for up 30 minutes or more. According to Katie Wood Ray (The Writing Workshop, 2001), students can also do other activities during their writing time, such as writing in their schema notebooks journal writing writing exercises to experiment with language and style conducting peer-conferences reading to support writing During independent writing time, the teacher confers with students about their writing.

The teacher should keep anecdotal records which include the date of the conference, observations, discussion, and teaching points. Websites on Conferring: K-5 Writing Binder - PPS K-12 Language Arts. Atlas - Browse Unit Calendars. Angela-wisemanwiki - home. Meld informative ccss lesson 2. Mrs. Judy Araujo, Reading Specialist | Northeast Elementary School, Waltham, Massachusetts. Reading/Writing Workshop - Inquirers Forever Literacy-PYP-Reggio. Launching Writers’ Workshop. The newly updated (August 2015) 19 mini-lesson free launching unit is available here: Launching Your Writing Workshop An amazing launch unit is the key to a successful writing workshop in your classroom! Use the lessons we’ve laid out below to help guide you through setting up a great workshop.

Because this unit is designed to build the foundation of your writing workshop, not all lessons cover common core standards. Many of our lesson are based on the work done by Katie Wood Ray in About the Authors. The writing workshop created by following our lessons will lead to a workshop where students are writing books everyday. Journals are not used, children instantly become writers and always work in blank books. There are templates for creating your own blank books here: Another component of this writing workshop is using real books by real, published authors to teach children what authors do.

Nonfiction Plan. Writer's Toolbox-A Writer's Workshop Website. Mrs. Melissa Butler. My present work focuses on learning in the digital age as a model for moving my school and other educators forward and by revolutionizing reading and writing workshop with state-of-the art tools and methods under the direct mentorship of Mary Ehrenworth and Cornelius Minor. As a result, I have emerged as an innovative speaker at many conferences, including the NJECC conference at Montclair State University (MSU), NJASA's Administrative annual conferences, EdmodoCon and institutes at Teachers College including their Spring Reunion which opens its doors to thousands of educators from all over the country.

My main focus is the use of social media and web 2.0 technology and the integration in schools by means to engage students, improve communications with all school stakeholders, transform learning spaces, and help educators grow professionally. Readingminilessons - home. Readers' Workshop K-6 - Minilessons. Planning for Daily Intentional TeachingWhat do my students need to know? What strategies and knowledge help them as readers? In what way does this strategy look different across genre? What language will I use? What texts/materials will best support this instruction? How can/will I connect this work to writing? Sources of Minilessons A huge list of planned mini-lessons...a must-see site! This is a fantastic template that reminds you of the structure and language to be used in a mini-lesson.

Kass & Corn | Kass & Corn. Jennifer Serravallo. The Reading & Writing Project - Home. TC Reading and Writing Project on Vimeo. The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is a research think tank and staff development organization housed at Teachers College, Columbia University. Led by Lucy Calkins, the Robinson Professor in Children's Literature at Teachers College, the TCRWP has been a leading force in literacy for over 30 years. By developing curriculum and performance assessments, and by working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, principals, and superintendents, the TCRWP has helped hundreds of thousands of schools to provide more rigorous and joyful reading and writing instruction. The Project works closely with schools in 23 countries, in all parts of the US, and especially in New York City. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have attended one of the seven institutes the TCRWP leads each year at Teachers College, Columbia University.

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is deeply involved in helping schools implement the Common Core.