Readers and Writers Workshop III-IV
Open to students entering grades 3 - 4
A day filled with reading books you enjoy, laughing about whimsical poetry and riddles, listening to stories of a favorite author, conversing about stories, and sharing your written work with friends is a day spent in Readers and Writers Workshop III-IV.
During Readers and Writers Workshop children will have an opportunity to independently read books that pique their interest at their instructional level, practice schema and questioning strategies, and collect their thoughts in a Readers and Writers Response Notebook. Daily mini-lessons will include explicit instruction in word solving and comprehension strategies, as well as genre studies. During Writers Workshop children will practice finding their own writing “voice”, while internalizing the process of writing, drafting, revising for meaning, editing and publishing. Their working drafts will be collected in a Writer’s Notebook. The final project will be writing and binding their own book.
Word study will be taught through poetry and other genres. Children will learn about consonant and vowel sounds, word patterns, affixes, and vocabulary. Weekly field trips will influence our selections for reading and our writing projects. Assessments will be given to determine the child’s instructional reading level, fluency rate, and stage of developmental spelling.
The primary goal is to help students strengthen their reading and writing strategies by finding books of interest at their reading level. Days spent in Readers and Writers Workshop help children develop the habit of reading and writing.
Full Session: June 23 - August 1
Full Day: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Instructor: Mary Moley and Linda Buteyn