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Bryan Kerachsky K-12 English Language Arts Coordinator Regional School District 17
Bryan Kerachsky
K-12 English Language Arts Coordinator
Regional School District 17
What does it mean to be in a partnership with
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project?
What does it mean for your children?
Have an “inside view” of reading workshop.
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) is affiliated with Teachers College at Columbia University
Lucy Calkins, Founding Director of the Reading and Writing Project LLC and the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
Staff Developers who are the “Best of the Best!”
Work with schools from the East to the West Coast and in countries like the UAE (Dubai), Singapore, Israel, and Jordan.
There is a waiting list a “mile” long to become a partner with Teachers College
TC will send two Staff Developers to RSD 17 to work with Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5.
The Staff Developers will: We ran a 2012 and 2013 Summer Reading Workshop
Institute for four days here at RSD 17. This institute is broken down into 2 cohorts, K-2 and 3-5. 60 teachers were trained.
Make school visits during the year to offer on-site professional development to further the growth of our teachers in the area of readers workshop.
Tremendous expertise and knowledge into reading and the readers workshop model.
All resources held at TCRWP are available to our teachers.
Reading, reading and more reading
Habits of Reading Not for today…for forever!
Community of Readers Sharing of Ideas
Book Clubs
Supporting your children where they are as Readers!
A 45-60 minute structure is designed to provide students the essentials they need to flourish as readers. Mini-lesson (about 10 minutes)
Skills Strategies Habits of Readers To lift the level of students’ reading work
Engage in Ongoing Reading Work (35-45 minutes) Independent Reading Small-Group Work (Strategy Lesson/Guided Reading) Teacher-Student Conference
Teacher Share (5-7 minutes) Little Teacher Talk Partner-Share (read aloud, acting out parts, word-solving) Celebration of readers
A part of the Balanced Literacy approach
Choice in Reading
High Interest Books
Reading Engagement
Learning from Peers
Reading for Enjoyment
Reading for Academics
Build Reading Habits for a Lifetime!
The building of joy for reading.
Students coming home and sharing what they are reading.
Students actively reading at home.
Students talking about “shopping” for books
Sticky notes…
Student logs
Student book bags
Writing about reading (i.e. sticky notes)
And….
Reading!!!
Examples of K-2, 3-5 Units of Study
First Grade Fourth Grade
Readers Build Good Habits Building a Reading Life
Tackling Trouble: When
Readers Come to Hard
Words…
Following Characters into
Meaning: Envision, Predict,
Synthesize, Infer, and Interpret
Reading Across Genres to
Learn about a Topic:
Informational Books, Stories,
and Poems
Nonfiction Reading: Using Text
Structures to Comprehend
Expository, Narrative, and
Hybrid Nonfiction
Nonfiction Readers Learn
about the World
Historical Fiction: Tackling
Complex Texts
Readers Can Read about
Science Topics to Become
Experts
Informational Reading:
Reading, Research, and
Writing in the Content Areas
