[LIT] Reading and Writing Workshop in 1 Class Period

[Kristen Chiaventone]

I teach reading and writing workshop at the middle school level.  The way it is done at my school is reading workshop is done on Monday and Friday, and writing workshop is done on the middle three days.  My students are required to read 30 minutes per night, even on nights they have writing homework and they are required to read a total of 120 minutes over the weekend.  In my advanced workshop class we focus heavily on writing and they are required to read 5 above level books per semester.  The writing portion is heavy on writing.  They do research papers, as well as the other forms of writing.  I hope this was helpful!

Maya Woodall <mayapapaya at bellsouth.net> wrote:  A few years back I used to teach in a block of 90 minutes and teaching both
writing and reading was a bit easier to do. I could facilitate both a
reading workshop and a writing workshop format on most days (mini-lesson,
workshop time, and author's/reader's chair). Now, though, I have one class
period to teach the reading and writing standards for language arts. What I
wonder is for those of you who teach in a workshop format to middle
schoolers in one class period covering language arts and reading, how do you
structure it? Do you try to integrate the two subjects each day? Do you do
reader's workshop a few days per week and writer's workshop the other days?
Have you found references or resources that are helpful in doing this? 



Also, I teach gifted students. If any of you on this list do
reader's/writer's workshop in a gifted setting, please email me. I would
love to exchange ideas.



Thanks.



Maya Woodall

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