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Adolescents on the Edge is the EC Ning’s July Book Club selection. Buy now with free shipping and discuss it on the EC Ning in July. Fusing Jimmy Santiago Baca’s talents as a writer of memoir with ReLeah Cossett Lent’s expertise in building and empowering classroom communities.
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Units of study for Teaching Reading: A Curriculum for the Reading Workshop, Grades 3–5
Lucy Calkins and her colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project have helped hundreds of thousands of teachers launch and implement rigorous and responsive reading and writing workshops.Now they have written an unprecedented curriculum for the reading workshop based on their work—Units of Study for Teaching Reading.
A rigorous and responsive course of study for students Powerful and empowering professional development for teachers
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One-Day Workshop:
Units of Study Across the Year in Upper Grade Reading: Grades 3-5
Presented by Lucy Calkins
In this one day, you'll hear about ways in which thousands of teachers are creating rigorous, accountable reading workshops based on the work of Lucy Calkins and of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. You'll learn ways to design units of study, teach minilessons, and lead small group work so as to provide learners with the explicit instruction they need in prediction, envisionment, determining importance, synthesis and interpretation, among other skills.
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At one time I found a rubric from Fountas and Pinnell that was a guideline as to where students should be by different points in a school years to be considered on grade
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