Moving students beyond compliant reading and writing and into engaged reading and writing takes focused planning. How can we create a volume of practice that improves reading, writing, speaking, and listening? We will study a balance of opportunities for students to demonstrate independence and increased proficiency across a lesson, a unit, and a year. We will consider classroom structures that place volume, choice, modeling, and feedback at the center of our instruction. Participants will work with other educators to:

• consider the balance of independent reading, book clubs, and core texts over the course of a year
• consider the balance of writing discourses and opportunities for students to demonstrate agency and independence
• collect engaging seeds for writers’ notebooks
• practice modeling revision moves that improve a text
• plan book clubs centered on essential questions and select books across a range of complexity
• invite students to generate thinking in response to their reading
• create opportunities for digital composition across the school year
• design practices to improve reading fluency, poetry performance, and TED-talk style presentations
• find sentences, passages, and whole texts that will mentor our students in specific writing craft and editing moves across genres
• design assessments that ask students to cite evidence of their learning

This workshop can accommodate a maximum of 50 participants. Registration is now FULL.

ASIJ Contact:

Ginny Prairie

Director of Professional Learning and MS/HS Curriculum Coordinator

vprairie@asij.ac.jp