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Getting Started: The Reading-Writing Workshop, Grades 4-8
Whether youre new to the classroom or merely new to the reading-writing workshop, Getting Started is the concise primer youre looking for that will help you implement these powerful teaching frameworks. Workshop teaching is simple, research based, and rewarding for you and your students. It can be launched by any teacher in any type of classroom, and Getting Started shows you the doable strategies for planning, organizing, teaching, and reflecting that make the workshop so effective. Linda Ellis and Jamie Marsh provide smart, practical advice about working with readers and writers of varying levelsincluding struggling studentsdifferentiating your instruction to support everyones needs, and helping diverse groups of children move toward a single classroom-wide goal of improved literacy. Ellis and Marsh strip the workshop down to its most vital parts and offer you straight-ahead techniques for reading and writing,
With valuable one-on-one instructional strategies, examples of student work, forms, checklists, and other tools, Getting Started includes everything you need to launch your workshop, to better understand your students literacy needs, and to give them the support they deserve.
With valuable one-on-one instructional strategies, examples of student work, forms, checklists, and other tools, Getting Started includes everything you need to launch your workshop, to better understand your students literacy needs, and to give them the support they deserve.
192 pages, Paperback
First published September 19, 2007
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September 6, 2020
Going I to the 2020-2021 school year it's going to be important for teachers to be familiar with different pedagogy both online and off.
I started this book off with a lot of teacher doubt; "I don't have the scheduled time", "I don't have the curriculum space", "they haven't encountered my students" and it took a real shift in myself to open up my mind to the possibilities presented in this book. Afterall, these strategies clearly worked for them so with some fancy footwork they should be adaptable to me as well.
The focus on student-centered learning very much appeals me. I loved the guiding principal of, "we must teach kids, not curriculum."
While a lot of the classroom set up put forward in this book isn't going to work in a CoVid classroom the foundational ideas in this book can be universally applied. I have dog-eared and sticky notes so many pages that I am really excited to kick this year off with a new approach to reading and writing in my classroom.
I started this book off with a lot of teacher doubt; "I don't have the scheduled time", "I don't have the curriculum space", "they haven't encountered my students" and it took a real shift in myself to open up my mind to the possibilities presented in this book. Afterall, these strategies clearly worked for them so with some fancy footwork they should be adaptable to me as well.
The focus on student-centered learning very much appeals me. I loved the guiding principal of, "we must teach kids, not curriculum."
While a lot of the classroom set up put forward in this book isn't going to work in a CoVid classroom the foundational ideas in this book can be universally applied. I have dog-eared and sticky notes so many pages that I am really excited to kick this year off with a new approach to reading and writing in my classroom.
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