Arkansas Department of Education | Teachers

This is a two-year, fourteen-day professional development opportunity designed to help teachers create a reading/writing workshop environment in their classrooms. The seven days of year-one training address the need for creating engaging literate classroom environments, as well as instruction in fluency and comprehension strategies. Year-two training is designed to help teachers use assessment to inform instruction and to facilitate writing workshop, vocabulary, and word study instruction.

Training Schedule

**Year I**
Day 1 Summer	Characteristics of adolescent literacy; goals for adolescent readers; role of motivation; creating literate environments
Day 2 Summer	Access to appropriate materials; educating student choice
Day 3 Summer	Research into reading practice; the reading workshop classroom (elements and procedures)
Day 4 Fall	Fluency instruction; designing, maintaining, perpetuating classroom libraries
Day 5 Fall	Comprehension strategy instruction; review of research; best practices; gradual release of responsibility
Day 6 Spring	Modeling of comprehension strategies
Day 7 Spring	Modeling of comprehension strategies

**Year II**
Day 1 Summer	Assessment: Flynt-Cooter Informal Reading Inventory (fluency and comprehension); Motivation and engagement assessment
Day 2 Summer	Development Reading Assessment 4-8 (fluency, comprehension, access to appropriate text, motivation); Benchmark (CRT) test strategies
Day 3 Summer	Vocabulary/Word Study (This day will be conducted at your local Co-op plus a touch-back session with your Literacy Specialist one day in the fall)
Day 4 Fall	Writing Workshop Classroom (elements and procedures): independent writing, guided writing, investigations and procedures; teaching writing craft
Day 5 Fall	Writing Workshop Classroom (elements and procedures, continued)
Day 6 Spring	Writing Workshop (continued)
Day 7 Spring	Inquiry Writing

Professional Texts

Title	Author(s)	Publisher	ISBN #
In the Middle	Nancie Atwell	Boynton/Cook	0-86709-374-9
Guiding Readers and Writers	Fountas and Pinnell	Heinemann	0-325-00310-6
The Fluent Reader	Rasinski, Timothy V.	Scholastic	0-439-33208-7
Strategies That Work	Harvey and Goudvis	Stenhouse	1-57110-310-4
Developmental Reading Assessment 4-8 (DRA2 4-8) (one kit may be shared with up to 4 classroom teachers)	JoEtta Beavers	Pearson Learning	0-7652-7629-1
Reading Inventory for the Classroom	Flynt and Cooter	Gorsuch Scarisbrick	0-13-106509-2
Writing Workshop	Fletcher and Portalupi	Heinemann	0-325-00362-9
Craft Lessons	Fletcher and Portalupi	Stenhouse	1-57110-073-3
Non-fiction Craft Lessons	Portalupi and Fletcher	Stenhouse	1-57110-329-5
A Writer's Notebook	Ralph Fletcher	Avon Books	0-380-78430-0
Live Writing	Ralph Fletcher	Avon Camelot	0-380-79701-1
How Writers Work	Ralph Fletcher	Harper Trophy	0-380-79702-X
Mechanically Inclined	Jeff Anderson	Stenhouse	978-157110-412-0
Non-fiction Matters	Stephanie Harvey	Stenhouse	1-57110-072-5
Word Journeys	Kathy Ganske	Guilford Press	1-57230-559-2
Bringing Words to Life	Beck, McKewown, and Kucan	Guilford Press	1-57230-753-6
The Literacy Principal	Booth and Rowsell	Pembroke	1-55138-146-X
Literacy Across the Curriculum	SREB	Southern Regional Education Board	www.sreb.org

For more information please contact:

Debbie Coffman
Arkansas Department of Education
K-12 Literacy Unit
Four Capitol Mall, Room 401-B
Little Rock, AR 72201

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