Publisher's Synopsis
The Guide to the Reading Workshop can be an essential manual for principals, curriculum coordinators, coaches, and others who are supporting implementation of Units of Study-or for anyone wanting to learn more about reading workshop.
The Guide to the Reading Workshop offers a comprehensive but concise introduction to:
- The Units of Study Series: mission, background, history, relationship to state standards including CCSS
- The essentials of reading instruction
- Reading development across grade levels, K-2
- How reading workshop fits within the school day
- Using assessment to support instruction
- The architecture and principles that inform minilessons
- Classroom management in reading workshop
- Effective conferring and small-group work
- Word study, shared reading, and reading aloud
- Supporting all learners: RTI, using data to drive instruction, supporting ELD
