a very good lens to use for the year- what we feel we need to do for our students (reader's and writer's notebooks a la Atwell and Fletcher) versus what we're required to do by our districts. Are they complementary or how can we make them so?
- how other schools started in their new schools (first year--opening) - Baseline Assessment-Various Models - how others flip-flop reading and writing workshop (or how they work both into their curriculum) - student leadership - Empowering students to have a voice in the decision making process of clubs, projects, etc. in a school. - By November, would like to discuss strategies on scaffolding instruction with a focus in cultural diversity. - differentiation that focuses on higher level thinking skills for struggling readers - scaffolding instruction, esp. w/ ESL and ESE populations, specifically how do you begin pulling support away without causing the students to panic or disengage? - real-life activities for assessment - How do others work test prep into their workshops. - Using Short texts for small group instruction - Steph Harvey's new leveled (by grade level) NF short texts to accompany lessons in her Comprehension Toolkit. - periodicals that provide short non-fiction articles to support sci, ss, math and lang. arts instruction and.can be thus used for response to literature. Muse, Calliope, Footsteps are excellent magazines for the middle level. I know others have favorites. I'd like to hear how they use them and share how we use them as well. - Wisdom of using independent reading instead of class novels - how teachers are team teaching/collaborative teaching. - The Reading Zone _______________________________________________ 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. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
