Stanley Teacher PrepAugust 2014
Workshop Structure: Discuss Reading Essentials Hook: Inquiry + build common
foundation (10 minutes) Mini-lesson: Instructional framework (15
minutes) Work time: Discuss the book in like
grade levels, create a chart (20 minutes + transition time)
Debrief: gallery walk (10 minutes)
Formative Assessment conversation on 8-12-14
As a result of reading The Writing Workshop I’m thinking:
There are so many connections between reading and writing- they aren’t really isolated subjects
Important to know that each student comes with different skills/ ways of thinking and that my teaching builds off what they know
The workshop structure is about teaching students to be independent, to have choice, to have a voice, to be engaged in their own learning
I always thought kids needed to learn skills first, in workshop they learn and apply skills
There is a lot of repeating: if kids don’t get it the first time, they have other opportunities to learn things again
Importance of talking “a chance to use verbal skills to talk things out, explore before writing”
“Reading and writing float on a sea of talk” –Fletcher and Portalupi
Hook: Quick write Write a definition:
What does it mean to read?-use Routman’s work as a support for your definition
Turn and TalkShare your definition of
reading + essential components from the text
Mini-Lesson: Optimal Learning Model Instructional framework at the heart of
teaching and learning: moving from dependence to independence
Gradual Release of Teacher ResponsibilityDirect Instruction
Modeling Guided Practice
Collaborative work
Independent Work
Sharing &Reflection
Teacher names the skill and gives the rationale for learning it
Teacher models the use of the skill
Teacher leads students through practicing a skill
Students work together to use the skill
Students use the skill on their own
Students make their work public and reflect on their use of the skill and how it helped them learn
“I Do, You Watch” “I Do, You Help” “You Do, I Watch”
Work Time: Apply Comprehension Strategies Groups of 2-6 Each person share: what stood out as
most important/ essential given your upcoming grade level?
Synthesize your thinking on a chart to teach the rest of us
Debrief: Gallery Walk In your writer’s notebook:
Write down what is essential at this point about Reading Essentials as you prepare to head into the classroom
Some pages not to miss: Focus on what matters most, p.7 Understand and apply the learning
model, p.47 Best practices in teaching reading, p.
187 I keep the following questions in mind
all the time, p. 203
“Teaching is an on-going series of
microexperiments that extend and modify the repertoire of teachers.
When we stop experimenting, we stop
living as teachers. ”-Tom Newkirk