Workshop+2--Part+II

**WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012** Rocky Mount, NC

After lunch

**Teaching Writing: Background, Principles & Guidelines for Classrooms (**Carol)


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Activities: Principles Reflected?
 * Writing to Learn and Learning to Write (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
 * Creating a Text (Word Shake--FreeWrite--Poem--Exposition/Argument)



**Workshop -- the beginnings...Aligned with Discussion of Principles**
 * Reading/Writing Workshop
 * Classroom Organization: What Does it Look Like (e.g., Mini-Lessons; Status-of-the-Class; Conferences; Independent Student Work; Class Sharing; etc.)
 * Workshop Concepts Related to Literacy Principles
 * Allows for Differentiation
 * Lifelong and Academic Readers & Writers
 * "What We Do Is What We Value" Message (Authenticity--Audience, Purpose, Reading, Meaning-Making, Connections, Dining Room Table Concept)


 * Reading/Writing Workshop Link**

http://www.mrsbunyi.com/readersworkshop.html

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 * Peeking Into Some Reading/Writing Workshops**

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 * Teaching Literature**
 * **Independent & In-Common Reading**
 * **Reader Response & Text Analysis**
 * **Engagement & Required Readings**
 * L**iterary Elements & Context**
 * **In-Common & Independent Reading**
 * **Young Adult Literature & Traditional Canon**
 * **Lifelong Readers & Academic Readers**


 * Activity: Book Pass & Young Adult Literature**