READING WORKSHOP MEGA BUNDLE
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All masterclass members can purchase my Reading Workshop MEGA Bundle and save 30%! It includes twenty-three products that you can use to successfully & seamlessly implement workshop with your students. You will get everything you need to plan your workshop, implement your lessons, and assess your students.
Read on to see the amazing number of products that are included:
Planning & Organization
This product will help you create a binder to plan and organize your reader's workshop or independent reading unit. You will find pages for planning mini-lessons, book talks, and conferences. There are also pages for your students to set reading goals, and rubrics for you to assess them. Best of all, you'll find lots of suggestions and inspiration for implementing workshop in your classoom.
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Mini-Lessons for Active Reading
Designed for independent reading or reader's workshop, these quick mini-lessons introduce (or review) reading strategies that help students become more active readers. Each lesson has a slide show to guide your discussion as well as corresponding student handouts.
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Mini-Lessons
The mini-lessons in this package are designed for use with independent reading or reader’s workshop. You can use them to introduce or review these basic elements of fiction writing: opening lines, setting, point of view, tone, characterization, theme and author style. After your lessons, students will explore each concept in the novels they are reading. Creative extensions will allow students to extend their understanding by experimenting with each concept in their own writing.
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Writing Prompts
These writing prompts are perfect to use as bell ringers for independent reading or reader's workshop. Each one asks students to reflect on -- or connect to -- some aspect of their reading, such as character, theme, point of view, conflict, or setting. Some prompts ask them to make a creative connection. Then, a further slide will instruct students to make one or more revisions to improve their response.
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Reading Conference Guides
These conference guides can help you stay focused, organized and on top of student assessments. You'll get guides for the teacher with focus questions, space for feedback and an easy-to-use rubric. Corresponding student forms require them to prepare before the conference and to record feedback to use later. Finally, there is a file of forms that will allow you to track student progress. Each guide is completely editable, so you can tweak them as needed.
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Activities for Independent Reading
This product offers you a variety of activities that you can use to help your students become active readers who can effectively analyze their texts. The activities will teach them the habits of active reading and will guide them to have meaningful discussions about literature.
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Stations for Learning to Respond to Texts
These stations and anchor charts for reader's notebooks are designed to teach students the information they need to respond to text and to understand author technique. Use them when you are beginning your notebook work so students can get organized and ready to use their reader's notebooks for independent reading.
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Independent Reading Stations
These learning stations can be used and adapted for independent reading even if students don’t have a dedicated reader’s notebook. The tasks at each station require that students look for, and write about, different elements of fiction. Included are titles and task cards for: opening lines, setting, point of view, tone, character, conflict, author's message, author's style, great quotes and questions.
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Task Cards for Talking about Books
Task cards are versatile tools that make your students active and reflective learners. These cards can also help you manage independent reading, something that can be difficult when students are at various places in different books. The questions on these cards can help them have meaningful discussions about books, even though they aren't reading the same thing.
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Collaborative Placemats for Talking about Books
Use these 8.5 x 14" placemats to organize student group discussions. Just print off one per group and your students will have clear instructions to guide their work together. Currently, there are placemats for discussions on characterization, thematic development and author purpose. You will find choices that can be used for any text or for a full class novel. There are also placemats that can be used to guide group discussion on universal themes, poetry and non-fiction.
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Reader's Notebooks
I love the idea of a reader's notebook--they are powerful tools for critical thinking as students read. But I also know that I am often pressed for time and, therefore, can't devote much of it to the cutting and pasting of interactive journals--as fun as that might be!
So, I created this notebook. It is one that can take the students beyond chapter questions and allow them to explore their own questions, thoughts and theories about the texts they read. It requires them to be more independent as they explore the author's ideas and purpose in writing. (Digital option included).
Point of View & Perspective Unit
This unit is meant to be used while you are doing independent reading or a full class novel, and has two objectives: a) to help students understand point of view & perspective and how they work together b) to give students an opportunity to view the world through another person’s perspective. The file contains a variety of slideshows, lessons, activities and assignments that will review point of view and perspective with students and then provide them with ways to practice their understanding.
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Understanding Character
Character analysis is a staple of secondary ELA studies. However, students will sometimes focus too much on the superficial with the characters they analyze. This product is designed to help students explore the character of the people around them, the characters in their novels and even themselves. There are five activities: use them all or pick and choose the ones that will work best with your curriculum and your students.
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Creative Writing Assignments
These writing assignments link my students’ writing to their reading. Each one is inspired by a special narrative technique in a popular young adult novel. The students do not have to have read the text to do the assignment, but it may inspire them to pick it up and give it a try! Each assignment includes a link to the books description on Amazon. There, students can “look inside” the book to see the technique highlighted in the assignment. Alternatively, if you have the book on your shelves, they can check out the real thing!
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Writing a Personal Narrative
Use this assignment to guide your students through the process of writing a personal narrative. While this product is not a detailed lesson on the genre, it does guide the students to follow the steps necessary to write an effective, compelling story. They will have the opportunity to do pre-writing to develop their ideas and to complete tasks that will help them focus on the elements of narration. The mentor texts will give them further guidance and inspiration, and a slideshow will focus their revision process before they do a final copy. (Everything is editable, should you need to tweak).
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Workshop Stations
These stations are designed to help you manage reading workshop in your secondary classroom, and are included in - and meant to correspond with - all of the products in my Reader's Workshop Bundle. Perfect for keeping your students focused and organized!
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Colorful Posters
A bundle of posters that will remind your students of important ideas and strategies for English class. Each one comes in three parts and, when assembled, measures approximately 11" x 25".
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"This is a fabulous resource! Everything you could ever consider in running a Reader's Workshop is included. I did a Reader's Workshop previously but had to create many of my own materials - this resource is an amazing time saver and is very clearly laid out! I'm so excited that I found this! THANK YOU!" ~ Ashely, Secondary English Teacher
