This new addition to the Workshop Help Desk Series includes information to support new users of the Units of Study with advice and help on topics such as: <ul> <li>Getting your bearings</li> <li>Planning before you launch</li> <li>Setting up classroom spaces and routines to support workshop instruction</li> <li>Provisioning reading and writing workshops</li> <li>Priorities for beginning workshop teachers</li> <li>Launching reading and writing workshops</li> <li>Assessment essentials</li> <li>Growing into your workshop practice</li> <li>What we know grows powerful workshop teachers</li> </ul> About the Workshop Help Desk series The Workshop Help Desk series is designed for teachers who believe in workshop teaching and who have already rolled up their sleeves enough to have encountered the predictable challenges. If you've struggled to get around quickly enough to help all your writers, if you've wondered how to tweak your teaching to make it more effective and lasting, if you've needed to adapt your teaching for English learners, if you've struggled to teach grammar or nonfiction writing or test prep...if you've faced these and other specific, pressing challenges, then this series is for you. Provided in a compact 5" x 7" format, the Workshop Help Desk series offers pocket-sized professional development.

A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Units of Study

Kanter, Pasty

Leinwand, Steven

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Heinemann

As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Reading Minilessons Book offers short, concise, purposeful lessons with a practical application in a specific area of literacy. Each minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle. Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalise the understanding. Each of the four types of reading minilessons (management, literary analysis, strategies and skills, and writing about reading) in The Reading Minilesssons Book is organised into broad categories, or "umbrellas." An umbrella helps children develop a deeper understanding of concepts and their application. As lessons build on each other, teachers will often make an anchor chart, or visual representation, that can be referenced again and again as children encounter new texts and/or minilessons. &nbsp; The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom(tm) Reading Minilessons Book, Grade 2 contains 190 reading minilessons.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, The Reading Minilessons Book: 2

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

As a teacher of literacy, you transform the lives of the children in your classroom. The Reading Minilessons Book offers short, concise, purposeful lessons with a practical application in a specific area of literacy. Each minilesson engages children in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle. Growing out of the interactive read-aloud experience and linked to independent reading, teachers use many of these texts as examples from which they generalise the understanding. Each of the four types of reading minilessons (management, literary analysis, strategies and skills, and writing about reading) in The Reading Minilesssons Book is organised into broad categories, or "umbrellas." An umbrella helps children develop a deeper understanding of concepts and their application. As lessons build on each other, teachers will often make an anchor chart, or visual representation, that can be referenced again and again as children encounter new texts and/or minilessons. &nbsp; The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom(tm) Reading Minilessons Book, Grade 3 contains 200 reading minilessons.

Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, The Reading Minilessons Book: 3

UofS Show and Tell: From Labels to Pattern Books, Grade K

This unit of study focuses readers on studying not just characters, but characterisation, or how authors create multifaceted characters replete with weakness and strengths, complex relationships with others, and life lessons they learn and teach. The unit strikes a delicate balance between encouraging readers to hold on to the magic of reading, allowing them to slip longingly into the pages of a compelling story, and presenting readers with opportunities to engage in meta-analysis, fostering an appreciation of the craft of the text as well as the story. Throughout the unit readers will: <ul> <li>come to apprentice themselves to characters they discover in realistic fiction</li> <li>explore how authors use perspective, point of view, and the management of time across the story to control readers' sympathy and experience of epiphanies</li> <li>consider moments or scenes in narratives as windows into characters</li> <li>learn to think and talk like readers who are also writers with their own checklists of authorial techniques</li> <li>develop the ability to reread and rethink as they examine stories through multiple lenses</li> </ul> Note: This unit is recommended as a way to launch your reading workshop practice in the beginning of the school year when taught in grades 7 and 8 as it pays particular attention to building readers' habits in addition to their interpretation skills.

UofS Investigating Characterization: Author-Study Book Clubs Gr. 6-8

UofS Investigating Characterization: Author-Study Book Clubs with Trade Pack

In this unit, you'll introduce your students to nonfiction books and media they will love, and teach them how to make the most of these portals to fascinating times, places, and people--not to escape our world, but to better understand and address its issues. The book-length nonfiction that middle schoolers will read possesses a unique blend of heart-rending storytelling, artful juxtaposition of subtopics, and challenging density. The skills of this unit are essential for students coming of age in an era of global collaboration and vital in the development of a truly informed, critical electorate. Across the unit readers will cultivate their ability to: <ul> <li>Glean central ideas that are not stated outright and identify and trace implicit arguments</li> <li>Build connections across parts of texts and across multiple texts</li> <li>Develop the stamina, patience, and the analytic presence of mind necessary to read longer nonfiction</li> <li>Flexibly activate their schema as they read passages that seem more informational and passages that seem more narrative in their literary nonfiction texts</li> <li>Transfer their literary nonfiction skills to digital and hybrid media</li> </ul>

UofS Literary Nonfiction

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