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About Writers' Workshop:
Inside Writing Communities Gr.
3-5
A video workshop for
grades 3–5 teachers; 8 half-hour workshop video programs, 8
half-hour classroom video programs, workshop guide, and Web site.
Lucy Calkins - Units of Study
Written by Lucy Calkins &
Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
Reading and Writing Workshop
This page will give you an in depth look at a morning in Jennifer
Meyers' classroom, including Readers Workshop, Writers Workshop,
Authors' Chair, and Word Study.
Setting Norms: Rituals and Routines to Support the Workshop Approach
Jennifer Meyers is a 2nd grade
teacher profiled in
Inside Teaching - a living archive of practice (a project of
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching).
Writers' Workshop
These pages (from teachersfirst.com) introduce Writer's
Workshop implementations for K-3 and upper elementary students.
Mrs. Meachem's Writing Mini
Lessons
This is a terrific site filled
with many helpful ideas.
Beth Newingham's 3rd Grade Writers' Workshop
What does Writers' Workshop look
like? Beth gives a detailed explanation of their workshop with many
pictures. Excellent!
Mandy Gregory's Writing Workshop
Mandy has been using a writers'
workshop approach for several years. Don't miss this site!
Touchstone
Touchstone Books/Mentor Texts:
Jessica Meachem's Book List for Writing Minilessons
Fantastic! Over 100 pages to
print out with minilessons and book ideas. See webpage version
at
her site
6 + 1 Traits:
6 + 1 Trait Writing
Go to Resources, Select topic: Literacy
- you'll read page about 6 Traits.
Other Resources:
Developmental Stages of Writing
Descriptions, photo samples of
various writing stages
The Write Source Site
Student writing
examples and grade level writing topics; ways to publish your
students’ work online
Writing A-Z
Core writing
lessons grouped by genre and text type, mini-lessons targeting key
writing skills, writing tools for organizing and improving writing.
Four Square Writing Method for Grades 1-3
This step-by-step approach is
built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students
how to collect ideas and then helps them use those ideas to create
clear and polished prose.
RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
Stapleless Book
This neat site is from ReadWriteThink; make an 8-page mini-book
online. It really works!
Story Frame Writing
Proteacher - The Writing Process
First Grade Personal Narrative
Rubric
Teachers' Bookshelf
Here's a list of books from my home book
shelf. These are the sources I reach for when I'm struggling to make a
lesson better or solve a teaching problem related to reading or writing. The
links will take you to amazon.com or International Reading Association, not
to suggest you buy the book there, but just to give further information.
READING
Growing Readers: Units of Study in the
Primary Classroom
by Kathy Collins
Reading for Real : Teach Students to Read with Power, Intention, and joy in
K-3 Classrooms by Kathy Collins
Reading With Meaning :Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
by Debbie Miller
Guided Reading
by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching
Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
by
Susan Zimmermann & Ellin Oliver Keene
7 Keys to Comprehension: How to help
your kids read it and get it!
by Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins
Reading Power - Teaching
Students to Think While They Read by
Adrienne Gear
Just-Right Comprehension Mini-Lessons
Grade 1 by
Cheryl Sigmon
Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies
for Reading Success
by Wiley Blevins
Teaching for Comprehension in Reading Grades
K-2 by Gay Su Pinnell & Patricia L. Scharer
Choice Words: How our
words affect children's learning
by Peter Johnston
Classrooms That Work by
Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington
Differentiating for
the Young Child: Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas (K-3)
by Joan Franklin Smutny and S.E. von Fremd
Good-Bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral
Reading Strategies
by Michael Opitz & Timothy V.
Rasinski
Guided Reading: Making It Work
by Mary Browning Schulman & Carleen
DaCruz Payne
How To Differentiate Instruction in
Mixed-Ability Classrooms
by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Invitations: Changing As Teachers and
Learners K-12 by Regie
Routman
Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers
Work
by Debbie Diller
Month-By-Month Phonics
by Patricia Cunningham & Dorothy Hall
On Their Way: Celebrating Second Graders
as They Read and Write
by Jane Fraser & Donna Skolnick
Revisit, Reflect, Retell - Strategies for
Improving Reading Comprehension
by Linda Hoyt
Running Records for Classroom Teachers
by Marie Clay
Small-Group Reading
Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling
Readers
by Beverly Tynner
Strategies That Work: Teaching
Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
by Stephanie Harvey & Anne Gouvdvis
Taking Running Records
by Mary Shea
The Daily 5- Fostering Literacy
Independence in the Elementary Grades
by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
The Struggling Reader - Interventions
that Work
by J. David Cooper, David
Chard, Nancy Kiger
The Teacher's Guide to the Four Blocks by Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall, and
Cheryl Sigmon
True Stories From Four-Blocks Classrooms
edited by Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy Hall
What are the Other Kids Doing? ...while
you teach small groups
by Donna Marriott
Word Journeys: Assessment-Guided
Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction
by Kathy Ganske
Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and
Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom
by Gay Su Pinnell & Irene C. Fountas
WRITING
First Grade Writers:
Units of Study to Help Children Plan,
Organize, and Structure Their Ideas
by
Stephanie Parsons
Units of Study for Primary Writing:
A Year-long Curriculum K-2
by Lucy Calkins and others
Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching
Beginning Writing, K-3
by Lori Jamison Rog
No More "I'm Done!"
by Jennifer Jacabson
Mentor Texts
by Lynn Dorfman &
Rose Cappelli
6 + 1 Traits of Writing
for the Primary Grades
by Ruth Culham
Using
Picture Books to Teach Writing with the Traits
by Ruth Culham
Guided Writing: Practical
Lessons, Powerful Results by
Lori D. Oczkus
About the Authors:
Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers
by Lisa Cleveland and Katie Wood Ray
Wondrous Words: Writers
and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
by Katie Wood Ray
...And With a Light Touch - Learning about Reading, Writing, and Teaching
with First Graders by
Carol Avery
Four Square Writing Method for Grades 1-3
by Judith S. and Evan Jay Gould
Getting the Most Out of Morning Message and Other Shared Writing Lessons
by Carleen DaCruz Payne & Mary
Browning Schulman
Just-Right Writing
Mini-Lessons Grade 1
by Cheryl M. Sigmon and Sylvia M. Ford
Quick Tips: Morning Message by
Anne Adams et al
Kid Writing: A Systematic Approach to Phonics, Journals, and
Writing Workshop
by Eileen G. Feldgus & Isabell Cardonick
On Solid Ground by
Sharon Taberski
In the Middle: Writing, Reading and Learning with Adolescents
by Nancie Atwell
On Their Way: Celebrating Second Graders as They Read and Write
by Jane Fraser & Donna Skolnick
The Daily 5- Fostering Literacy
Independence in the Elementary Grades
by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser
The Literacy Center: Contexts for Reading and Writing
by Lesley Mandel Morrow
A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation by Janet Angelillo
The
Mailbox BOOKBAG Magazine
Great ideas for using children's
literature
The Poetry Corner
by Arnold Cheyney (grades 4 and up)
A Poem A Day by Helen
Moore
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