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Resources to use the Bands and Strands of Text Complexity to guide conferences

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Resources to use the Bands and Strands of Text Complexity to guide conferences

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This information is located on the Heinemann website under the "Learning Progressions / Reading Pathways" link. It can be given to students so they can guide their own growth.

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Under the "Digital Media" tab, you will find resources that can be accessed using your library membership information.

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In this section you'll find links to online libraries, online video books, videos, and podcasts.

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The Learning Progression charts, found in the Reading Pathways book and on the Heinemann website, can be used to guide and narrow down your instruction. This can also be given to students to help them self-assess and guide their own growth.

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Overview of vitrual UoS (Units of Study)

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Overview of vitrual UoS (Units of Study)

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues Units of Study

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Home / Our Series - Virtual Teaching Resources

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To support Grades K-8 Units of Study teachers with remote, in-person, and hybrid workshop instruction, Lucy Calkins and her Teachers College Reading and Writing Project colleagues have developed a variety of powerful resources.

Virtual Teaching Resources
For the 2021-22 School Year
Resources to supplement the print Units of Study curriculum, including:

Minilesson videos for teacher Professional Development and for classrooms that will remain virtual

Resources for parents and caregivers

"Ramp-Up" units for the start of the school year

additional virtual modules recommended for all classrooms

minilesson videos for new units in the 2021-22 TCRWP Suggested Sequence

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Units of Study Virtual Teaching Resources

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Home / Our Series - Virtual Teaching Resources To support Grades K-8 Units of Study teachers with remote, in-person, and hybrid workshop instruction, Lucy Calkins and her Teachers College Reading and Writing Project colleagues have developed a variety of powerful resources.

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Resources directly related to your Units of Study (manuals) from Heinemann (the publisher)

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These classroom resources provide core curriculum and instruction while guiding your professional growth. Our authors expand upon the ideas introduced in their professional books, model effective instructional strategies, and provide "ready-to-use" resources - including teaching materials and lesson plans - written to support your daily instruction.

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Heinemann | Publisher of professional resources and provider of educational services for teachers

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Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services for teachers and educators from kindergarten through college.

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Modify to fit time current constraints by scaling down Independent Reading time to 30 minutes.

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Overview of A Day's Reading or Writing Workshop

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Resources created by the Teacher's College to support the Units of Study

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Cultivating Meaningful Learning Communities through Literacy

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Use this resource if you don't know where to start, or you feel as though your students don't have enough of a foundation to jump into your grade level units. For many of our students, this may be a good place to begin anyway due to the disruption to the school year.

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This is another free resource for teachers from The Curriculum Corner.

Start here when launching your reading workshop!

If you are new to reading workshop, this unit of study is designed to help you get started with implementing an effective workshop in your classroom.

We also have an additional launching unit with a "Growing Readers" theme. You will find the link to this free unit at the bottom of this post.

The Key to Success when Launching Your Reading Workshop

The key to a successful readers' workshop is beginning by teaching procedures. This will help your workshop run smoothly and effectively.

Use these launching lessons to create a more organized and meaningful experience for you and your students.

Because many of these lessons build the foundation of your workshop, not all address an academic standard.

Before you get started, create a plan for organizing your workshop. We have an editable reading management binder you might like: Reading Binder

What Does Reading Workshop Look Like?

What is Reader's Workshop?

First of all, it is important to know what reading workshop is. Below is a short description of what workshop looks like in many classrooms. Time frames can vary depending on your school and expectations.

Reading Mini-Lesson - A true reading workshop begins with a 5 to 15 minute mini-lesson. This mini-lesson focuses on a specific concept or skill. Sometimes you might reference a read aloud. Often, it is a good idea to read this book before the lesson. Maybe as a time filler the day before as you are waiting on dismissal. You don't want the whole mini-lesson to be your read aloud. This allows the students to enjoy the story before being asked to focus on a specific concept or purpose.

Independent Reading and Teacher Conferencing - Following the mini-lesson, students move to self-selected or independent reading. During this time students should be given a task to complete. The idea is for them to have the opportunity to practice the skill taught in the mini-lesson. They should not be spending the entire time writing instead of reading. Think simple! Maybe a post-it note response or an exit ticket. As students read independently and practice the new skill, the teacher conferences with individual students. (You will find conferencing forms in our reading management binder - link below.)

Lesson Wrap-Up - At the conclusion of independent reading, the class returns to a meeting spot. Here they will review the lesson and discuss what students did to practice a new skill on their own.

Literacy Centers - In our classrooms, we then immediately follow Reader's Workshop with our Literacy Centers. This is the time where students can complete Word Work, Vocabulary & Comprehension Building Activities or other reading skills practice. It is also the time that we meet with our small leveled guided reading groups.

**As this is an older unit of study, the set up is slightly different. Each lesson will be provided by clicking on the lesson title. All of the printables to accompany the unit will be available below the unit outline.

Launching Your Reading Workshop

Lesson 1: What Readers' Workshop Looks Like This beginning lesson helps students set classroom rules for a readers' workshop.
**T-shirt template for above lesson
Lesson 3: Good Readers Build Stamina This lesson includes a class graphing activity where readers practice building stamina during readers' workshop.

Lesson 7: What Good Readers Do - This lesson gets your students thinking about how they can take charge of their own reading growth.

Lesson 8: The Habits of GREAT Readers - This lesson has students talking with older, more experienced readers to learn the habits that they have created. This is similar to the lesson "What Good Readers Do", but goes into more depth about the thinking that should take place before, during and after reading.

Lesson 9: Good Readers Listen to Their Inner Voice as They Read - This lesson teaches students what their "inner voice" is and how to listen to and use that inner voice to make sure they understand what they're reading.

Lesson 11: Good Readers Use Pictures to Read New Words This lesson can be done on a smartboard. Students read the text and discuss how picture clues can help readers read new words.

Lesson 12: Good Readers Use Chunking to Read New Words This lesson can be done on a smartboard or other type of board. Students practice using chunking to decode new words.

This chart might be helpful to teachers as you conference with students: **"What Can I Do to Make Sure I Understand My Book?"

Lesson 14: Good Readers Record What They Have Read This lesson shows students how to record and keep track of what they have read. The teacher can choose any book to read aloud and a reading log of choice. The teacher models how to use then reading log and then, students use the reading log during independent reading.

You might like this reading response collection: Reading Notebook for Students

Lesson 16: Good Readers Use Post-It Notes as They Read This lesson includes a read aloud of the book Too Many Toys by David Shannon. The teacher models using post-it notes to record thinking while reading. (Another book of your choice can be used.)

Lesson 18: Asking Questions Before, During and After Reading - Students need to learn to purposefully and spontaneously ask questions as they read. You can have students practice this by recording questions on Post-It notes or in a reading journal. After completing the model as a class, have students practice on their own during independent reading. Go here to find more resources to extend this lesson: Responding to Reading The reading notebook we shared in lesson 14 might also assist you with this lesson.

You will find a completely updated Launching Reading Workshop unit of study here: Growing Readers Launching Unit This post contains updated lessons along with a larger collection of anchor charts, graphic organizers and so much more! It is still free.

If you are new to reading workshop, you might want to start here: Preparing Your Reading Workshop

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Here are some videos of minilessons, conferring sessions, small group sessions, and more. These are great to come back to now and again for ideas, refreshers on how your lessons should be going, etc!

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Minilessons should be no longer than 10 minutes. This may seem impossible, I get it. Here are some tips to help!

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The "Cheat Sheet" for fiction shows the characteristics of text bands. The prompts for conferring can be found on the Heinemann website.

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How to block your minilesson for synchronous and asynchronous learning:

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How to block your minilesson for synchronous and asynchronous learning:

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Readers Workshop IS possible with virtual learning. Here's how you can structure your minilessons whether you're in person/synchronous lessons on Zoom, or asynchronous.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Caters to younger readers

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Vooks - Storybooks brought to life with beautiful animation!

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Vooks is an entire library of kids storybooks brought to life with beautiful animation, read-aloud narration, engaging music and sound, and read-along text.

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Access to the Epic! library is free during school hours.

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Here are some links to virtual read alouds, organized into book bins by level and subject matter.

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Digital Nonfiction Reading and Resources

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Digital Nonfiction Reading and Resources

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Included here are NF text sets, online libraries, anchor charts, etc.

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I often get questions about which mentor texts I have used, the resources in which I used them, and the skills I cover with them. This database will answer all those questions (and more)!
**In my opinion, the database is MOST useful on a desktop computer- the mobile view is not as search/filter friendly.**
There are many ways to utilize the database- check out the quick tutorials underneath the database to learn to access the information in the most effective way for what you need.
**Note, the Amazon links in this post are affiliate links. These don't cost you anything extra, and Amazon pays me a few cents for sending you their way. I use this money for book giveaways for my followers!**
Linked Standards

The standards listed in the database are the Core Standards (same as in my resources). I am aware that some live in states that don't use these standards, however, I list the anchor standards for reading and writing which are very easy to correlate to others if needed:
Reading Core Anchor Standards Writing Core Anchor Standards
Mentor Text and Resource Database

Tutorials

The database is set to view only, so don't be afraid to play around with different filters to see all the ways you can search and use this spreadsheet! You cannot delete or "mess up" anything. 🙂

First, I find it easiest to navigate the database in the "larger version" - click the button at the bottom right corner of the database to view this version.

Then, check out all of the information you can view about each book/resource by scrolling to the right using the scroll bar at the bottom:

You can also view all of the information about a specific book without scrolling through the spreadsheet by clicking on the cell of the book you want to view, then clicking on the name of the book to open the record:

As you can see above, all of the links are clickable. The links will take you to the book on Amazon to purchase, or the resources in my shop.

There is a column for related resources, too- so if you are interested in seeing other ways to use the book, or resources that would pair nicely with the topic/subject, check those out!

If you know of a book you want to use, you can check to see what I have available for it by doing a search in the search bar:

If you want to filter the large database to be more specific for your needs, you can do that! Maybe you want to see all of the mentor texts that I have used for a certain grade level. Click "filter" and choose the "grade level" column, then choose your grade! You can choose multiple grades, too, if you'd like.

You can also add more filters! So, you've filtered all of the texts now by grade... perhaps you would also like to find a specific skill covered with the texts... add a second filter and select the column you need (mentor sentence focus skill, reading core standard, or writing core standard).

Or maybe you want to see all of the texts and information about a specific resource. Click "filter" and then choose the column you'd like to use to narrow your results - for example, maybe you want to see everything about Volume 1- choose "resource" and type Volume 1, and all of Volume 1 texts will be displayed!

I hope you find this database super useful! It will be updated with any new resources I create.

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Mentor Texts and Resources Database | Ideas by Jivey

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I often get questions about which mentor texts I have used, the resources in which I used them, and the skills I cover with them. This database will answer all those questions (and more)!

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Resources to Build More Inclusive Libraries

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Resources to Build More Inclusive Libraries

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#ownvoices - Why we need diverse authors in children's books. 

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#ownvoices - Why we need diverse authors in children's books. 

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The discussion of the importance of diversity in children's literature has been ongoing for decades, but has become much more visible over the past few years. The conversation - spurred further into the spotlight by the grassroots We Need Diverse Books campaign - has recently gone beyond looking at the diversity of characters within books by focusing on diversity of the authors behind the books as well.

Last year, Corinne Duyvis (young adult author of the upcoming On the Edge of Gone, and my fellow editor at Disability in Kidlit) created the hashtag #OwnVoices on Twitter. This hashtag is a useful shorthand for books with diverse characters that are written by people who share those identities, and it's been widely embraced within the kid lit community. Why are #OwnVoices books important, though? We talk a lot about needing windows and mirrors for our kids - do they really care who's behind the books? Isn't it enough to read about diverse characters, no matter who's writing them?

In short: No, it isn't enough. There's a long history of majority-group authors (white, abled, straight, cisgender, male, etc.) writing outside their experience to tell diverse stories. Sometimes the characters and stories they create are wonderful! But many times, they're rife with stereotypes, tropes, and harmful portrayals. Time and again, marginalized people have seen their stories taken from them, misused, and published as authentic, while marginalized authors have had to jump hurdle after hurdle to be published themselves. Many feel they must fight to receive even a fraction of the pay, promotion, and praise that outsiders get for writing diverse characters' stories, and that's when they're allowed in the door at all.

Even when portrayals of diverse characters by majority-group authors are respectfully and accurately done, there's an extra degree of nuance and authority that comes with writing from lived experience. Those books that are #OwnVoices have an added richness to them precisely because the author shares an identity with the character. The author has the deepest possible understanding of the intricacies, the joys, the difficulties, the pride, the frustration, and every other possible facet of that particular life - because the author has actually lived it.

For instance, I'm a wheelchair user. I'm intimately familiar with enduring and combating ableism, navigating an inaccessible world, exploring disabled identity, and embracing disability pride. I know not only which tropes to avoid, but how much those tropes hurt - because I've been hurt by them before. I can list a whole host of tiny everyday details about the physical and emotional reality of my disability that secondary research is unlikely to surface. I have a lifetime of experiences - positive, negative, neutral, and complicated mixtures of all of the above - to draw from when I write a fuller, more authentic wheelchair-using character.

Of course, none of this is to say that authors shouldn't write outside their own experiences. When we talk about #OwnVoices, it is not about policing what authors write. It's about being aware of the stories we as readers seek out and promote, and about carefully considering the perspectives of the people who write those stories. Given the history of marginalized groups being spoken about, and for, in all areas of society, it's especially important that we don't ignore diverse voices by focusing only on diverse content.

To help make the search a little easier for you, here are some #OwnVoices recommendations to start you off. All of the following are written by authors who share the disability depicted in their books.

These are just a few examples of excellent #OwnVoices books featuring disability, and I encourage you to seek out even more - featuring disability and all other types of diversity! Some good places to start are: Disability in Kidlit, Diversity in YA, Latin@s in Kid Lit, Rich in Color, Gay YA, American Indians in Children's Literature, and Dahlia Adler's many helpful lists.

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Why We Need Diverse Authors in Children's Literature

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Multicultural Equality (Walk in Another's Shoes)

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Pixar Shorts are great for introducing topics. Attached is a list of topics and Pixar short films that relate to each topic. There are many Pixar short films beyond this list that can be used to enhance lessons.

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20 Entertaining Podcasts for Kids of All Ages

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20 Entertaining Podcasts for Kids of All Ages

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This article is just and example of the many podcasts available for kids of all ages.

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Grown-ups have long been enjoying adult podcasts - but are there great podcasts for kids, too? 100%! These fun kids' podcasts get children off of their screens and thinking about the world in new ways. Throw them on during long car rides, when you need a rainy-day diversion indoors, or anywhere else that where you can get comfy and listen as a family.

The best podcasts for kids get them involved in some way, either by submitting questions, shouting out answers to trivia questions and challenges, or throwing out absurd scenarios as starting points for imaginative stories. Other podcasts borrow from the radio broadcasts of old and use actors and crazy sound effects to spin yarns over multiple episodes. Some bring together the best of kids' music and the best of adult music, so families can listen together without fighting about who gets control of the playlist. Still others answer questions that even adults might have a hard time wrestling with, breaking down the unexplainable phenomena in our world and making it understandable for smaller ears. If your family finds one they connect with, you'll be able to use it to spark dinner-table discussions for weeks to come.

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The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel Kids' Podcast Is Like 'Stranger Things' Meets 'The Goonies'

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Grown-ups have long been enjoying adult podcasts - but are there great podcasts for kids, too? 100%! These fun kids' podcasts get children off of their screens and thinking about the world in new ways. Throw them on during long car rides, when you need a rainy-day diversion indoors, or anywhere else that where you can get comfy and listen as a family.

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Tumble Book Library can be accessed through the Atlantic County Library System's website

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TumbleBook Library offers eBooks, read-alongs, videos, audiobooks and games which help pre-school and K-3 level children learn all while discovering the joys of reading.

Features include:

Online eBooks with adjustable text sizes, full narration, and a read-along function which highlights text as it is read or can be switched to manual so readers can read at their own pace.

Colorful videos from National Geographic.

Games and puzzles to make reading and learning fun and interactive.

Mobile device-friendly interface.

TumbleBook Library is a great tool for parents and teachers to get kids to use the computer educationally as well as being a perfect choice for reluctant readers.

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TumbleBook Library offers eBooks, read-alongs, videos, audiobooks and games which help pre-school and K-3 level children learn all while discovering the joys of reading. Features include: Online eBooks with adjustable text sizes, full narration, and a read-along function which highlights text as it is read or can be switched to manual so readers can read at their own pace.

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Prompts for conferring

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Sample Mini-lesson from the virtual Units of Study

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Sample Mini-lesson from the virtual Units of Study