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Katherine Sokolowski The Reading Room
Katherine SokolowskiThe Reading Room
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Twitter: @katsok
Blog: readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com/
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Choice
Workshop model
Teacher HAS TO read and write as well
Relationships come first
Share your life with them
Overall philosophy
We have forty years of research showing that packaged reading programs do not reliably improve student reading achievement. – Allington 2006
Eliminates the need for busy work – time is spent in class to work on authentic reading and writing activities.
Helps create an environment where students love to read and write.
Why Workshop?
Classroom TourWhat do you value?
Desks vs Tables
Classroom meeting spot
Classroom Library
Anchor Charts
Writing - published
Word rich – Inspiration for them…
Inspiration for me
Whose room is it?
Workshop Model
So far this year my students have read, on average, seven books. That puts them on a pace to read between 30-36 books this year.
Penny Kittle’s video, Why Students don’t read what’s assigned in class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gokm9RUr4ME
Why does choice matter
Kids come in, check-in, and read ~ 15 minutesQuick Write ~ 5 minutesMini lessons (Comprehension Tool-kit, Lucy Calkins
Units of Study, pull from standards) ~ 20 minutesIndependent work time ~ 25 minutes
RTI groupsPull other groups if neededConferences
Share at the end (5 minutes)Response JournalsTech: Padlet, Audioboo, Kid Blog, Twitter, Google
Drive
Reading workshop in our room
An example of a pre-writing narrative lesson this week:We watched Sarah Hale’s
spoken word poem, Hands, on YouTube.
We then read the picture book, Beautiful Hands, by Otoshi.
We then sketched our own hand in our journals indicating on it items we’ve touched, held, or experienced.
What does a mini-lesson look like?
Blog post – Josh
Fountas & Pinnell
Aims Web
Conferring
How do you know if they’re reading?
Status of the Class (Check-in)
During Independent reading90% of the time I hold reading & writing
conferences10% small group work
Types of conferencesIndependent readingSkill based/ Assessment Comprehension based
Management of dataUse Evernote, iPad, Google Drive
Reading Conferences
Evernote (I use the paid version)
Mini lesson (Lucy Calkins Units of Study, Jeff Anderson for grammar, pull from standards) ~ 15 mins
Independent Writing – Conference with students (goal is to meet with each child every two weeks). Pull back groups if needed. ~ 25 minutes
Use composition notebooks.Teach in units with reading – average length
of unit is three weeks.Tech: KidBlog, Pages, and Google Docs
Writing Workshop in our room
Involve your students
Make it their classroom
Bibliotherapy and the “Third Thing”
Relationships, relationships, relationships (students and parents – beginning of the year letter)
Classroom Management Tips
Teach them to reflect
Classroom Management in Photos
Jobs and spots
Books – Calkins, Atwell, Graves, Donalyn Miller, Kittle, Allington, and more.
Join organizations (NCTE, CLA, ALAN, IRA, IRC)
Conferences
Professional Development
Twitter (follow chats like #titletalk, #engchat, #bookaday, #nctechat)
Core people to follow:@donalynbooks@colbysharp@mrschureads@professornana@paulwhankins@loveofxena@frankisibberson
Twitter – free PD
Reflect, reflect, reflectReally think what you want your classroom
environment to be like.Decide what is your core belief – bring
everything back to that. RelationshipsReach outFirst jobs
Advice
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @katsok
Blog: readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com/
Goodreads: katsok
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