2. Make Your Workshop WORK!
Stacia Nuessle
Aiken Elementary School

3. Stacia Nuessle Aiken Elementary School First Grade snuessle@acpsd.net

4. Essential Question
How can I make the Aiken County Public School District Workshop Model for Reading and Writing work in my primary classroom?

5. Presenters Meeting Outcomes
At the end of this session, teachers will walk away with tips and tricks to get Reading and Writing Workshop up and running for the new school year. You will find out ways to organize and set up your room for success from the start! Have an open mind and be ready to change the way you think about your Workshop!

6. Where do I start? Have you looked at Rubicon lately?
Unit 1 – Establishing the Workshop/Literacy Focus
“This unit of instruction focuses on establishing an effective workshop. The ultimate goal for this unit is to create students who want to learn to read and write and provide them with the strategies to be able to do so successfully. Teachers will establish routines and procedures for students to select appropriate texts, establish partner reading rituals, build stamina and sustain momentum during independent reading, and establish mini-lessons through shared reading, interactive read-alouds, and word study.”

7. Where do I start?

8. Where do I start?

9. Where do I start? Do you… Still use the Basal? Still use worksheets?
Do Stations and Guided Reading?
Have Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Reading and/or Writing?

10. The Struggle is REAL! Are you ready to LET IT GO? Classroom Setup
Rituals and Routines
Structure
Time

11. Classroom Setup Is your classroom “kid friendly?”
Are there open spaces for students to read and write?
Are supplies available?
Is there a “gathering space” where you begin your lessons?
Is your library organized and labeled for easy access?
Do you have mentor texts?
Do you have charts, markers, and sticky notes?

12. Classroom Set Up

13. Classroom Setup
Take a good look and think about what you are REALLY doing with your students…
Ask yourself, “Is it a purposeful learning experience that fosters independence?”
If it doesn’t serve a valid purpose, let it go!
PLE’s are NOT
PLE’s COULD BE
Worksheets
Independent reading
Copying spelling words
Partner reading
Looking up definitions
Discussion groups/literature circles
Unrelated computer games
Responses to reading to extend and deepen the experience
Arts and crafts
Inquiry projects and researched based on interest
Nonsense word practice
Demonstration and reflection of strategy use in independent reading
Moses and Ogden 2017

14. Classroom Setup
Before…

15. Classroom Setup
After… If you want a classroom of Readers, you need to create a classroom that reads!

16. Classroom Setup Non-Negotiables Classroom Library Book Boxes
Supplies Ready and Available
Partner Reading Chart

17. Rituals and Routines
Where do I start?
How does it work?
Anchor Charts

18. Structure and Time Structure Build Reading Stamina Start Small
Build Trust and Engagement (Get them EXCITED about reading!)
Student Choice
Time
Stick to a Schedule
Guard the Time
Who is doing the work?
Who is doing the reading?

19. Work Time Related directly to your mini lesson
Always take it back to text
Build stamina over time
Eyes on text
Use strategies, charts, bookmarks, and goal setting
READ! READ! READ!

20. Reading Partners Set by Fountas and Pinnell text levels
Partners matched by text levels
Partner build relationships
Partners can be with other classes or grade levels

21. Anchor Charts Created WITH your class
Used as a resource daily during any
given unit
Used to help focus the mini lesson
Used to help students focus and
set individual goals

22. Anchor Charts

23. Classroom Libraries Leveled using Fountas and Pinnell text levels
Leveled by genre, author, topic
Organization evolves over time
You will want to!

24. Celebrate Your Students
Celebrate your students as Readers and Writers!

25. The Real Deal

26. The Real Deal

27. The Real Deal

28. Books to Get You Started

29. Books to Get You Started

30. Where to find everything…
In an effort to help you get your workshop started, I’ve compiled a list of resources for you found on my classroom website:

31. Something to think about…
Studies have shown that the number of minutes students spend reading at school is associated with gains in reading achievement and that teachers are influential in determining how much time students spend at school reading (Taylor, Frye, and Maruyama 1990).
How much time do you give your students to read every day?

32. Wondering About Assessments?

33. Wondering About Assessments?

34. Wondering About Assessments?

35. Revisiting the Presenters Meeting Outcomes
At the end of this session, teachers will walk away with tips and tricks to get Reading and Writing Workshop up and running for the new school year. You will find out ways to organize and set up your room for success from the start! Have an open mind and be ready to change the way you think about your Workshop!

36. Revisiting the Presenters Essential Question
How can I make the Aiken County Public School District Workshop Model for Reading and Writing work in my primary classroom?

37. Stacia Nuessle Aiken Elementary School First Grade snuessle@acpsd.net