Readers' Theater

Readers' Theater is a great way to improve fluency with students, increase motivation and self confidence, intonation, phrasing, rate, expression, comprehension and fun! Re-reading is an important strategy to use when needing to improve fluency. Try it in class and see how the students react. I suggest mixed grouping as lower level students need to hear and see fluency modeled correctly. I also suggest reading the scripts to the students first, then assigning parts and have them practice. I go over the oral reading fluency before this and use that as well. Students then get to anonymously nominate the best speaker per scene by putting their heads down, closing their eyes, and voting as the teacher calls out the names of the students. Students love to hear their names called and acknowledgment of their good work.

Second Grade Readers' Theater Scripts: www.readinglady.com

 http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html  Ages 8-14 Scripts

http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm       Readers' Theater Scripts and Plays

http://www.readinga-z.com/book/scripts.php   Reading A-Z: You will need your password/account

Writing Workshop Resources

http://www.unitsofstudy.com/writing-grade-by-grade/default.asp  Caulkins Units of Study for Writing Worksop.

Calkins compiled almost 40 video clips of Common Core aligned teaching and learning and want you to know this is a resource you can have, use, share. You'll see that this provides more than 6 hours of classroom videos to support you and your colleagues. To ensure that Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms can be helpful to as many people as possible, we've put the videos online in Vimeo albums. This is the link to the website on which you can watch all of the clips: https://vimeo.com/tcrwp/albums. 
https://vimeo.com/tcrwp/albums.  

Reading Workshop

 

The beginning of a new school year often involves discussion and/or modeling of procedures, behaviors, and classroom expectations.  Reading Workshop also requires this same earnest and intentional effort as we establish norms for the classroom to ensure success for each student.  Building a "reading community" in which students are independent is more likely when routines and procedures are purposeful and meaningful to students.  Below are links to a variety of primary and intermediate examples of Reading Workshop mini-lessons with an emphasis on direct instruction of those procedures students need to have in place before they can truly begin to grow as readers. 

 

• K-5 Launching Mini-Lessons
• List of Ideas published by the CG Literacy Coaches (April/May Literacy Links issue)
• Primary Example from Austin Independent School District
• Intermediate Example as published on ProTeacher
• Intermediate Example from Austin Independent School District
• The First 35 Days of Book Clubs
• The First 20 Days from Revisiting the Reading Workshop

 Site: Click here for links.

Into The Book Site: Information, lessons and videos on key teaching points.
http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/priorknowledge/index.html
 
Why Anchor Charts? 

S:\faculty\Reading Workshop\Lucy Calkins Resources\Reading Units of Study.mht    Second Grade Units of Study

Calkins and Common Core: Videos

Calkins compiled almost 40 video clips of Common Core aligned teaching and learning to be used as a resource to use and share. You'll see that this provides more than 6 hours of classroom videos to support teachers. To ensure that Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms can be helpful to as many people as possible, they have put the videos online in Video albums. This is the link to the website on which you can watch all of the clips: https://vimeo.com/tcrwp/albums

 https://vimeo.com/tcrwp/albums. 

Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers are a great way to organize your thoughts, ideas and details. It is a valuable tool that isn't only for kids, but for adults too. They are a tool that spans across content areas.

Scholastic Graphic Organizer  Scholastic graphic organizers.

Reading Workshop Graphic Organizers

http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail/?id=35525  KWL Chart

http://www.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/f/feb05_unit_BiographyChart.pdf  Biography graphic organizer