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"Years from today, if you were to gather close around you the children you teach now and ask them about their reading lives, would they name your teaching of reading as a turning point? Would you like it to be? Does your teaching of reading have the potential to change not only your students’ lives but also your own life? It could, if you let your teaching be a course for you, and not just for your kids. Your life as a teacher, as a reader, and as a person, could be changed in big and important ways, if you let it."
—Lucy Calkins
Units of Study for Teaching Reading: A Workshop Curriculum
from Lucy Calkins, Founding Director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
from Kathleen Tolan, Deputy Director of Reading
- Provisioning a Reading Workshop: Overview, Classroom Environment, and Tools audio | transcript
- The Architecture of a Reading Workshop: The Management System audio | transcript
Units of Study for Teaching Reading will be published in Spring 2010. As we develop this reading workshop curriculum this site will provide the most up-to-date information available.
Excerpt from Unit 1
"...when we are teaching toward independence, it is crucial that we don't just introduce an array of reading skills and strategies. A skill that is introduced and demonstrated one day, must be scaffolded and supported another day, extended another day, combined with other skills and drawn upon when needed yet another day, until the work finally becomes automatic, providing the basis for yet more advanced skills."
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