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Error 404: Not Found Home Our Series - Middle School Reading We want our middle grades students to become flexible, resilient readers who read for pleasure as well as for academic purposes. We want them to have a toolkit of strategies for dealing with difficulty, and we want them to know when and how to use those strategies. How Can We Best Meet Those Needs? To accomplish such ambitious goals, we must reconsider how we think about our classrooms and our curriculum. We can no longer conceive of the curriculum as a few books kids will master. We now recognize the value and importance of teaching a repertoire of skills and strategies to help students be more powerful in any book. Why is the Reading Workshop So Effective? The simplicity and predictability of the workshop frees the teacher from constant choreographing so that he or she has time to observe, to listen, to assess, and to teach into specific student needs. For the bulk of time during each day, students read, and as they do, they draw upon an ever-growing repertoire of skills, tools, strategies, and habits. Learners need teachers who demonstrate what it means to live richly literate lives, wearing a love of reading on their sleeves. Teachers need professional development and a culture of collaborative practice to develop their abilities to teach. A mountain of research supports the notion that teachers who teach reading successfully provide their students with substantial time for actual reading. Students need access to lots of books that they can read with high levels of accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. They need opportunities to consolidate skills so they can use skills and strategies with automaticity within fluid, engaged reading. A consensus has formed around the resolve to accelerate students progress so they can read increasingly complex texts. Teachers can find ways to scaffold instruction to provide students with access to these texts when they cannot read them independently. The National Reading Panel strongly supports explicit instruction in comprehension strategies, suggesting that the teaching of even one comprehension strategy can lead to improved comprehension, and that teaching a repertoire of strategies can make an even larger difference (National Reading Panel 2000). Talking and writing both provide concrete, visible ways for learners to do the thinking work that later becomes internalized and invisible. The strength of a students general knowledge has a close relationship to the students ability to comprehend complex nonfiction texts. Students who read a great deal of nonfiction gain knowledge about the world as well as about vocabulary. Learners are not all the same, and learners do not all need the same things to progress. Teaching, then, must always be responsive, and our ideas about what works and what doesnt work must always be under construction. Read-aloud is essential to teaching reading. Teachers read aloud to open the day, using stories and poems to convene the community and to celebrate what it means to be awake and alive together. They read aloud to embark on shared adventures, to explore new worlds, and to place provocative topics at the center of the community. The National Reading Panels recommendations in 2000 supported the need for children to have balanced literacy instruction. Pressley and his colleagues conducted research in balanced literacy, seeking out examples of exemplary teaching in the primary grades and studying the approach to instruction. In every case, whenever they found a classroom with high literacy engagement, they found balanced teaching in place (Pressley et al. 2002). (Adapted from A Guide to the Reading Workshop, primary and intermediate editions) To read more about how you can work with colleagues to articulate the vision guiding reading instruction at your school, download the sample chapter for your grade level, excerpted from A Guide to the Reading Workshop, Middle School Grades. Grade 6: A Deep Study of Character Tapping the Power of Nonfiction Social Issues Book Clubs Grade 7: Investigating Characterization: Author Studies Essential Research Skills for Teens Historical Fiction Book Clubs Grade 8: Dystopian Book Clubs Literary Nonfiction Critical Literacy: Unlocking Contemporary Fiction Grade 9: Critical Literacy: Unlocking Contemporary Fiction Essential Research Skills for Teens A Book Club Unit of Choice In order to provide the greatest flexibility for middle school classrooms, the Units and the Guide are all sold separately. You may choose a different sequence based on your schools curricular needs, but also keep in mind that there is a layering of complexity across the units that you will want to consider as you plan. Note: publication of the previously-announced Poetry unit has been postponed indefinitely. Units of Study There are 9 individual units for middle school reading, each available for separate purchase. Each unit includes all the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small group work needed for the reading workshop. A Guide to the Reading Workshop Details the architecture of the minilessons, conferences and small-group strategy sessions, and articulates the management techniques needed to support an effective middle school reading workshop. (Available separately for administrators and coaches) Online Resources Each unit includes downloadable, printable files for anchor charts (English and Spanish versions) and other charts, read-aloud texts, samples of student work, bands of text complexity, links to videos, tools for learning, and homework assignments. Getting Started with Middle School Reading Units Webinar Classroom Videos from TCRWP Purchase Recommendation: In order to provide the greatest flexibility for middle school classrooms the units and guide are all sold separately. For a sequencing suggestion, see above. Choose the bundle with the Trade Book Pack if your library does not already include the mentor texts referenced in the Unit. Nonfiction Book Clubs Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al. Below Benchmark Nonfiction Book Clubs Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al. On Benchmark Social Issues Book Clubs Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al. Fantasy and Dystopia Book Clubs Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al. Investigating Characterization Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al. On Benchmark Literary Nonfiction Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al. Below Benchmark Literary Nonfiction Shelf, Grades 6-8 Lucy Calkins et al.
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