STRENGTHENING THE CORE

of Reading Workshop

MS Literacy Collaborative 2020, ISKL

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Who’s in the Room?

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Safe Space

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The Spirit of the Collaborative

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Shared Learning:

Moving Readers

Learning Teams

As a reading teacher, I am at my best when...

Reading Workshop

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Common Core

• Analyze
• Cite
• Determine
• Compare and Contrast

Comprehension

• Meaning Making
• Inference
• Relevance
• Text Complexity
• Metacognition

Independent Reading

• Student Agency
• Range and Exposure
• Stamina
• Love of reading

Moving Readers

Common Core

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THE TARGET

Comprehension

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THE ARROW

Independent Reading

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THE DELIVERY

Moving Readers

Common Core

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DEVELOP READERS

Comprehension

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EMPOWER READERS

Independent Reading

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PERSONALIZE

Moving Readers

Literacy Teacher Toolkit

• Common Core Standards

DEVELOP

• Reading Comprehension Strategies

EMPOWER

• Reading Workshop

PERSONALIZE

Moving Readers

Guiding questions for the Collaborative:

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• How can we help students strengthen their reading skills through their use of reading strategies?
• How can we strengthen our practices around the core elements of workshop (mini-lessons, mentor texts, student choice, conferring, etc)?
• How can we more fully employ the workshop paradigm to reach our learning targets as outlined in the Common Core standards while continuing to foster choice, agency and a love of reading?
• What assessment tools can help us guide the learning during workshop?

What is a way you would like to get better at moving readers in your classes?

Jigsaw: Further Readings

How might these materials help to move readers?

Expert groups to identify key takeaways.

Be ready to share with triads.

What is a way you would like to get better at moving readers in your classes?

Mentor Text

Cicada

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What would you say are some of the themes of this book?

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Labsite #1: Observation

Labsite: Observation

• Some background
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
• Data from Exit Tickets

Labsite: Observation

Watch-fors:

• how I structure the time
• clarity and focus in the minilesson
• I do - we do - you do
• assessment
• using the conferences to move readers via skill or strategy
• whatever is the focus of your goal

Let’s do this!

Labsite: Debrief

• Praise
• one good thing?
• Question
• left wondering about…?
• Polish
• one thing that could be polished?

CLOSING THE DAY

Something I will take away from today….

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One thing I’d like more of tomorrow...

Good Morning!

STRENGTHENING THE CORE

of Reading Workshop: Day 2

MS Literacy Collaborative 2020, ISKL

Today’s Overview

Labsite 3:

8:15-10:45, Teach at 9:45

Lunch 10:45-11:15

Labsite 4: 11:15-1:30, Teach at 12:20

Roundtables

Closing

Reading Strategies

"Proficient readers carry a set of reading skills and strategies with them when they approach any text. In order to make meaning of a text, readers make use of strategies and decide when a given strategy is appropriate. [Our] goal is to make sure that each reader is not only using strategies, but also using them independently and with confidence."

- Jennifer Serravallo and Gravity Goldberg

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Moving Readers

Common Core

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DEVELOP READERS

Comprehension

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EMPOWER READERS

Independent Reading

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PERSONALIZE

What’s in our Resource Bank?

Roundtables

What’s

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What are the challenges with assessment of reading skills and strategies?

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What are some ideas worth sharing?

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What is some thinking about running a Reading Workshop in an integrated Humanities model?

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What is some thinking about how we might differentiate mini-lessons to reach students with different capabilities?

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What is some thinking about how we might expand the use of peer feedback during Workshop?

Closing the Workshop

Assuming we continue to meet on an annual basis, what should we

• KEEP doing
• STOP doing
• CHANGE/MODIFY?

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Feedback Survey

General outline

• Welcome: Logistics (bathrooms, evac, water/food, take care of your needs) 5 min
• Who’s in the room. Posters with 10 word autobiography of a partner. Print “I am at my best when..” from surveys. 15 min
• Safe space. Maybe Praxia’s protocol? Also...Janet’s idea for feedback PQP (praise, question, polish) 10 min
• Why we are here: the collaborative as a model, focus of these days, guiding questions, parking lot sheets to guide round tables
• moving readers
• labsites not about changing kids, about honing practice
• Common understanding of RW?
• CCSS (with progressions/rubrics) + Reading comp strategies + RW (organization) JIGSAW
• CCSS: Yes, but… skills are the focus of the standards but still about falling in love with books!
• Keene: Strategies are about helping students unpack challenging texts. This is something that can move readers
• RW: Organization and the value of a conference to move readers

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common defn of theme

Serravallo’s videos