10:00-11:15 September 8, 2011 PDC

Balanced Literacy Time Recommendations ComponentEarly GradesUpper Grades Word Work30-40 minutes daily20 minutes 2-3 days per week Independent Reading30-40 minutes daily minutes per week Supported Reading30-40 minutes daily minutes per week Writing30-40 minutes daily minutes per week

Writing Writer’s Workshop Interactive Writing Shared Writing Being A Writer Journaling and Reflections Writing in the content areas Writer’s Notebook

Writer’s Workshop Mini-lesson (10-12 min) Writing (30-35 min) – Teacher confers with individuals or table groups or pulls small-groups for strategy instruction Mid-Workshop Teaching Point (2-4 min within Writing time) Share (3-5 minutes)

Mini-lesson Connection (1 min) – Connecting with prior knowledge/teaching with what will happen today Teach (4-5 min) – Introduce a new thought or strategy – Demonstrate through your own writing Active Involvement (3-4 min) – Students try out their understanding with a partner Link (1 min) – A Teaching Point reminder

Conferences Research – Observe and listen Compliment – Genuine and specific Teach – Pick one point and make it a strategy – Do not write on the student’s paper Link – Rename the strategy – Student practices

Interactive Writing Teacher shares a pen with a group of children Teacher and students collaboratively compose and construct a written message. Helps children learn how written language works. Supports children in using what they know to get to what they do not yet know. Students work alongside a more expert writer. Clear demonstration of the process of producing a piece of writing.

Shared Writing Teacher acts as a scribe for a group of children. Enables children to develop and organize ideas.

Morning Message Considerations to highlight: – Showing where to start writing and directionality – Say the words, then say each letter as it is written – Using capital letters – Using punctuation – Counting sentences – Counting words in sentences – Finding out which sentence has more words/letters Topics to consider: – Names, weather, special visitors, activities or learning that will take place that day, etc.

Predictable Charts Based on: – The teacher writes what a child says. – The child can read what the teacher writes. Process for a week – Day 1 & 2 – Dictation of Sentences – Day 3 – Touch Reading the Sentences – Day 4 – Sentence Builders – Day 5 – Making a Class Book

Journals Type: – Content area – Reflective Process: – Whole-group shared writing – Small-group reflection – Individual reflection