SETTING UP, LAUNCHING, AND MAINTAINING A READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP

August 16, 2013

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Dan Dawer, Pflugerville Middle School

Outcomes

In this session, participants will:• Understand how the Reading/Writing

Workshop structure can help students become better readers and writers.

• Examine some of the materials, procedures, and strategies essential to the Workshop structure.

Agenda (session 1)

Personal Reflection 8:30 – 8:45Presentation 8:45 – 9:25Discussion #1 9:25 – 9:40Discussion #2 9:40 – 9:55Creative Task 9:55 – 10:00

Agenda (session 2)

Personal Reflection 10:15 – 10:30Presentation 10:30 – 11:10Discussion #1 11:10 – 11:25Discussion #2 11:25 – 11:40Creative Task 11:40 – 11:45

Personal Reflection

Topic 1

What overarching goals do you have for student readers in your classes?

What class structures, activities, or instructional strategies enable you and your students to achieve those goals? Why?

Topic 2

What overarching goals do you have for student writers in your classes?

What class structures, activities, or instructional strategies enable you and your students to achieve those goals? Why?

Writing Workshop: Middle School Model

What a 50 minute class looks like:

Mini-lesson Whole class teaching 10 minutes

Independent work time Students engaged in writing or reading Individualized teaching/conferring 30 minutes

Share/self assessment/reflection 10 minutes

Mini-lesson Independen

tworktime

Share

Writing Workshop: Middle School Model

Weekly schedule

Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri

Reading Writing Reading WritingStudent

Workshop WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopChoice

Reading/Writing Workshop is…

Organized, rigorous, and purposeful

Generative

Differentiated

Reading/Writing Workshop is not…

A free-for-all

Derivative

Uniform

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0cejtxxoNo

Writers’ Notebooks

Take a moment to look through the student notebooks at your tables.

What do you see students doing in their notebooks?

What topics are students writing about?

What types of writing do you notice?

What surprises, interests, or confuses you?

Writing Portfolios and Resource Folders

General classroom procedures

Mini-lessons

1. Connection: I’ve noticed in your writing that…

2. Teaching Point: Today I’m going to teach you about…

3. Demonstration: Watch me while I…4. Active engagement: Right now, I’d like

you to…5. Link: So today and every time you

write…6. Follow up: In a conference? Share time?

Next mini-lesson?

Conferences

1. How is it going?2. What is the

student working on?

3. What is the student doing well?

4. What is one teaching point I can share with this student?

1. What book are you reading?

2. What page are you on?

3. Tell me about your book.

4. What is one teaching point I can share with this student?

Share Time

Partner share Small group Whole class Exit ticket Google forms: goo.gl/dl7hI

Keeping Track

Keeping Track

Discussion #1

What overarching goals do you have for student readers in your classes?

What class structures, activities, or instructional strategies enable you and your students to achieve those goals? Why?

How does the Reading Workshop fit in with your current thinking about reading instruction?

Discussion #2

What overarching goals do you have for student writers in your classes?

What class structures, activities, or instructional strategies enable you and your students to achieve those goals? Why?

How does the Writing Workshop fit in with your current thinking about reading instruction?

Creative Task

What is one change you might make to improve reading or writing instruction in your classroom?

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