Maggie, Those are all excellent questions and--as I feel like a newbie regarding workshop teaching--I can't answer them with authority. However, what has been helping me a lot is being able to see curriculum maps from others who are more experienced at this. At the very least they give you an idea of what people teach when and how they put certain concepts together. A set of curriculum maps that REALLY helped me can be found at _http://www.middleweb.com/ReadWrkshp/RWdownloads.html_ (http://www.middleweb.com/ReadWrkshp/RWdownloads.html) . I downloaded all of them both for reading and writing and was able to revise them to suit my unique needs (like adding required stuff from my district and deleting lessons that are not appropriate for my level). I was able to lay reading and writing maps beside each other month by month. In that way, it was easy to make some connections between reading and writing instruction. The general website, _www.middleweb.com_ (http://www.middleweb.com) , is for middle school teachers and my sixth grade in still in elementary, but I still found it to be so valuable anyway. On it, there are blogs from the late Juli Kendall, an awesome teacher who talks you right through YEARS of her literacy work with kids. She kind of gives you a "how she did it" description. Hope the site helps you!!! Good luck! Kelly W 6th/CT
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