Well, the wonderful thing about Reader's Workshop is it's incredibly versatile. If it were me, I would do the workshop during the Social St. and Science time, using historical fiction, expository texts and scientific fiction, as read alouds. I would use the mandatory textbooks as whole group texts to teach reading strategies non-fiction texts (if I HAD to). I would pull out Nancie Atwell's Coming to Know, Stephanie Harvey's Nonfiction Matters and use those as guidebooks, both books about how children read or write nonfiction to help them understand the topic. I would teach various ways of responding to expository texts, poetry about bugs, animals,etc. I would make sure my topics were broad, conflict; diversity, the holocaust, change...huge broad topics can encompas both science and soc. st. together. Ultimately the independent reading time would be their choice, but I would focus my booktalks and read alouds around the content area. I would make sure my topics were broad; conflict diversity, the holocaust, change... I would stuff my classroom library with expository, historical fiction, and science fiction.
Hope that helps, Kim -- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
