"Years from today, if you ask the children you teach now about the turning points in their lives as readers, would they point to the year you spent together? This series can help you teach in ways that make a world of difference. Your teaching can end up providing turning points not only in your children's lives, but in yours as well. Your teaching can remind you of why you chose this profession, and it can help you remember that literacy isn't just for the kids—it's for us all." —Lucy Calkins

Units of Study for Teaching Reading: A Curriculum for the Reading Workshop, Grades 3–5 A rigorous and responsive course of study for students Powerful and empowering professional development for teachers Now Available Online »

Video Clips

• Why reading workshop is good for students...and teachers
• The structures and rituals of a reading workshop
• An overview of the yearlong curriculum
• The Most Important Work for You to Do

Overview Materials

• Units of Study for Teaching Reading overview/scope and sequence chart
• Overview Brochure and Sample Session (17 MB - may take a moment to download)
• Slide presentation
• Flyer: 11x17 folding flyer
• Flyer: 8.5x11 pages

Samples

• CONTENTS and Letter to Leaders: Lucy answers questions school leaders will likely have
• CHAPTER 1: Essentials of Reading Instruction
• CHAPTER 12: Planning a Year-Long Curriculum for Teaching Reading

• CONTENTS and INTRODUCTION
• SESSION 1: Learning from Best and Worst Reading Times and ASSESSMENT: First Things First

• CONTENTS and INTRODUCTION
• VOL 1, SESSION 4: Letting the Text Revise Our Image of the Character
• VOL 2, SESSION 10: Expecting Complications in Characters

• CONTENTS and INTRODUCTION
• VOL 1, SESSION 5: Grasping Main Ideas in Nonfiction Texts
• VOL 2, SESSION 11: Achievement Texts, Disaster Texts: Templates in Narrative Nonfiction

• CONTENTS and INTRODUCTION
• VOL 1, SESSION 1: Constructing the Sense of Another Time and ASSESSMENT: Formative Assessments to Guide Unit Planning
• VOL 2, SESSION 11: Forging Trails of Thought as We Read

• CONTENTS and INTRODUCTION
• PART 1: Launching the Reading Workshop with Young Readers
• PART 2: A Study of Fairytales and Myths Can Teach Archetypes and Allegory

• Letters to Caregivers about the Unit
• Excerpt from Frogs and Toads by Bobbi Kalman
• Nonfiction Articles: Outstanding Ostriches
• Teaching Charts for Student Use: Ways Nonfiction Reading Partners Can Help Each Other Read and Think
• Ways Nonfiction Readers Read with Power Checklist
• Additional Teaching Points for the Unit
• Booklist of Expository Nonfiction
• ASSESSMENT: The Data Are in: Teaching Reading Prepares Students for Standardized Tests

A Guide to the Reading Workshop DVDs

• Maneuvering Your Way Through the DVD

From UNIT 1: Building a Reading Life

• Unit 1 Overview by Lucy Calkins
• CONFERENCE: Coaching Partners to Synthesize as They Retell
• Tiny BOOK-BUZZES: Introducing Books to the Class

From Unit 2: Following Characters into Meaning

• Unit 2 Overview by Lucy Calkins
• MINILESSON: The Thin Line Between Prediction and Envisioning
• SMALL GROUP: Demonstrating and Coaching to Support Prediction
• PARTNER CONFERENCE: Seeing Through a Secondary Character's Eyes

From Unit 3: Navigating Nonfiction

• Unit 3 Overview by Lucy Calkins
• MINILESSON: Pausing to Teach What You've Just Read in an Expository Text
• GUIDED READING: Using Story Structure to Help Read Narrative Nonfiction
• INQUIRY GROUP: Responding to a Jellyfish Article—and to Each Other

From Unit 4: Tackling Complex Texts

• Unit 4 Overview by Lucy Calkins
• BOOK CLUB: Listen in on a Talk About Let the Circle Be Unbroken
• SHARE: Learning to Work Out the Confusing Parts Together

Audio Clips

• Units of Study for Teaching Reading: A Series Overview audio | transcript
• Units of Study for Teaching Reading DVDs audio | transcript
• Reading and Writing: A Workshop Approach audio | transcript
• Reading Workshops and Basal Reading Programs audio | transcript

• Provisioning a Reading Workshop: Overview, Classroom Environment, and Tools audio | transcript
• The Architecture of a Reading Workshop: The Management System audio | transcript

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