Welcome to…Digging Deeper with Reading & Writing Workshop

Grades 3-5!

As you arrive please make a four pane nametag on construction paper. You can represent your information using words, pictures,

or both!

Your favorite genre for summer

reading…

Something fun you’re doing this

summer…Something unique

about you…Your favorite

children’s book…

Digging Deeper with Reading & Writing Workshop:

Teaching Through Genre Studies Grades 3-5

Presented by: Julie Rodriguez and Heidi Herold

“Like many aspects of technique in language teaching about genres is made more powerful by allowing students to become insiders in the world of that genre. People become insiders in craft when they have to construct the sort of thing they are learning about.”

Randy Bomer

Course Goals & Purpose• We will explore how to implement a more

complex reading and writing workshop through genre inquiry– Units of Study: Poetry, Persuasive (Editorial), Expository

and Procedural (Feature Article) plus Research

• RRISD Expectations

– Read and highlight significant words, phrases, or points

Writer’s Notebook Entry

Digging into State Documents: ELAR TEKS Introduction & Figure 19

Reading TEKS• Number of 1-6 at your table• Skim and scan the knowledge and skills

statement expectations 3-5. Note verbs and underscore products.– All 1s read Theme and Genre– All 2s read Poetry– All 3s read Drama– All 4s read Fiction– All 5s read Nonfiction– All 6s read Sensory Language

• Share!

Let’s take a break! Be back in 10 minutes.

Digging into Writing TEKS

Grades 3-5 At a Glance…

RRISD Teaching & Learning Continuum

Immersion & Inquiry• Instructional framework for studying genre in the writing

workshop (a predictable rhythm and likely to become intertwined!)

– framework is used to uncover curriculum about writing itself– time for students to engage deeply in reading and writing

• Students’ noticings and questions around gathered texts determine what will become important in each study

• Depth rather than coverage is the driving force in the development of content (in each genre study)

• Writing is used as a tool for learning and as a means to communicate that learning

Digging into the Genre of Poetry

Before you write one poem, you need to read at least 100.Ted Kooser, Former Poet Laureate

We will resume promptly at 1:00.

Genre of Poetry… reading deeply and widely!

Before you write one poem, you need to read at least 100.

Ted Kooser, Former Poet Laureate

Reflection…

Genre Study Framework & Reading and Writing Workshop

Genre Study Framework

Components of Reading/Writing

Workshop

Gathering TextSetting the StageImmersionClose StudyWriting Under the Influence

Writer’s Notebook Entry

Welcome to Day Two!

As you arrive, please write an entry in your writer’s notebook.

Writer’s Notebook Entry

Digging in to the Genre of Persuasive Text

“Students need to inhabit the genre if they are to master it.”

Lucy Calkins

Let’s take a break! Be back in 15 minutes.

We will resume promptly at 1:00.

Reading & Reflection

Read Exploring Inquiry as a Teaching Stance in Writing Workshop by Katie Wood Ray. While you read make notes of significant points and your thinking.

Then take some time to reflect, through writing in your notebook, about the article and the process that we traveled through today.

Writer’s Notebook Entry

Welcome to Day Three!As you arrive and settle, please write an entry in your

writer’s notebook or read through mentor texts/professional books, possibly responding in your

reader’s response notebook.

Writer’s Notebook Entry

Digging into the Non-fiction Genre

• Non-fiction Reading and Writing TEKS

• Research TEKS

Let’s take a break! Be back in 10 minutes.

Digging intoFeature Articles

We will resume promptly at 1:00.

Feature Articles&

Research Plan

“Motivation is at the heart of writing… Go where your interest lies or your affection or your passion” (1990,58)

William Zinsser, On Writing Well

Let’s take a break! Be back in 15 minutes.

Feature Articles&

Research Plan

Reflection

Welcome to Day Four!As you arrive and settle, work on writing a notebook entry,

reading some feature articles, or working on your work from yesterday.

Research & Feature Articles

Let’s take a break! Be back in 15 minutes.

Research & Feature Articles

““I think “revision” is badly named. The “re” I think “revision” is badly named. The “re” prefix implies that you are going back over prefix implies that you are going back over something you’ve already done. But you’re something you’ve already done. But you’re not going back. You are going on with the not going back. You are going on with the writing process. It’s all a part of getting it writing process. It’s all a part of getting it right. A friend of mine who played basketball right. A friend of mine who played basketball once said that he envied me because he had once said that he envied me because he had just missed a foul shot that would have tied just missed a foul shot that would have tied the score at the end of an important game. the score at the end of an important game. He said, “But you can write that foul shot until He said, “But you can write that foul shot until you make it.” He was right. I write a first you make it.” He was right. I write a first draft that I know if going to be partly good, draft that I know if going to be partly good, partly bad. I may go over a manuscript three partly bad. I may go over a manuscript three or four times before I’m satisfied.” or four times before I’m satisfied.” (Marcus 2000,14)(Marcus 2000,14)

Bruce Brooks, author and two time Newberry Award winnerBruce Brooks, author and two time Newberry Award winner

We will resume promptly at 12:45.

Research & Feature Articles

Gallery Walk!

“At the end of a study I want students to leave owning their knowledge. I want them to love the literature that was studied and be able to confidently engage with that genre in the future.”

Heather Lattimer, Thinking Through Genre

Assessment

• Six Traits Analytical Scoring Guidehttp://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/5_point_rubric_condensed.pdf

• Digging Deeper (one more time )1s and 4s read excerpt from Nonfiction Matters2s and 5s read excerpt from Thinking Through

Genre3s and 6s read excerpt from Study Driven

Reflection

Evaluations and Feedback