[LIT] Reading and Writing Workshop in 1 Class Period

[macwendy at cox.net]

Great advice on the first reading a lot and then gradually add the writing.  Thank you for sharing.




---- Heather Poland <hpoland at gmail.com> wrote: 
> I also teach workshop style in 1 50 or 55 min. class period. I tried having
> 2 days of readers workshop and 2 days of writers workshop, but that just
> didn't work for me. What has worked for me is at the beginning of a unit, I
> focus only on the reading and slowly put in some writing days and slowly
> fade the reading part out. So by the end of the unit we are only doing
> writing. At the middle of the unit we do part reading and part writing. This
> has worked well for me.
> 
> This year I'm having a heavier focus on writing so when we read, we will
> read with the lens of a writer.
> 
> On 7/30/06, 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org
> >
> > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to
> > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> - Heather
> 
> "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of
> man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments
> fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out;
> new races build others. But in the world of books are
> volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet
> live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were
> written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men
> centuries dead." --Clarence Day
> 
> "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little
> good evidence exists that there's any educational substance
> behind the accountability and testing movement."
> —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds
> 
> "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose
> funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase
> funding. "
> —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate
> _______________________________________________
> The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org
> 
> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org.