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Connecting Reading and Writing in the Intermediate Grades: A Workshop Approach
Connecting Reading and Writing in the Intermediate Grades A Workshop Approach Author:Diane M. Cohle, Wendy Towle Imagine a literacy-centered classroom where reading and writing are no longer viewed as school skills, but as life skills-a classroom where students voluntarily and spontaneously engage in discussions about their reading and writing. Follow authors Cohle and Towle as they adapt a successful primary-grade workshop to a balanced language arts p... more »rogram for grades 3 through 5. The authors offer a framework for providing instruction that meets the needs of all learners and instills a lifelong love of reading and writing. Connecting Reading and Writing offers personal evidence about the success of a workshop approach-including actual conference records, samples of student work, and teacher feedback-and provides research that supports the effectiveness of the workshop model. An appendix contains a variety of assessment and record-keeping forms that can be adapted to suit any workshop approach. Draw from the authors' experiences to customize your own workshop based on the needs of individual students, and to help your students develop a love of reading and writing that extends far beyond the classroom.« less