Readers’ and Writers’ Workshop – Yearly Plan – Grades 1 and 2
Time Frame
First Term –
Sept Oct Nov
All-year
outcomes:
Readers’ Workshop
Classroom Management and Structures
 What does learning look like in Readers
Workshop?
 Choosing Just Right books
 Book Shopping
 Introduce one literacy station per week
(Kathy Collins – Growing Readers)
Writers’ Workshop
French
Communication in French at all times
 Circle
Comprehension Strategies

Main Idea

Schema

Opinion (p. 196)

Making connections (p. 210, 216)

Questioning (p. 208)
(Debbie Miller – Reading With Meaning)
Learning to Read Strategies

Book walk

One-to-one matching

Monitoring (p. 212)
 Using meaning
 Using structural information (p. 222,
Classroom Management and
Structures
 What does learning look like
in Writers’ Workshop?
(p. 288, 290)
(Lucy Calkins – Launching the
WW Bk 1)
French
RA 55, 57
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MODES OF WRITING:
Expressive
(for personal use)
RA 19
RA 39, 51
RA 35
Journals
(with Schema) (p. 254)
(PM Writing)
Writing Trait focus - Ideas
Poetic (Moodle - YWIA)
(for the reader’s enjoyment)
RA 43
RA 63, 67
Personal Narrative
(with Schema, Making
Connections)
RA 3
224)
 Using visual information
o Using picture clues
o Get your mouth ready
o Chunking
o Reread
o Look for parts you know

Self-correcting

Cross-checking

Fluency (p. 220)
(Moodle, Kathryn Brown, Literacy Coaches)
 What good reading sounds like
 Punctuation
 Wrapping around
 Rereading to make it sound better
 Listening to your voice information
(Kathy Collins – Growing Readers)
 Introduce one sound a week from kit
1 ere annee: ch, an, en, in, ui, etc.
2 e annee: ain, ein, eil, ouille, etc.

Word
o
o
o
o
Wall
children’s names (grade 1)
high frequency words
PM / GB Plus word list
Les mots de transition
(ex. avant, ensuite, après)
(Lucy Calkins – Small Moments
Bk. 2)
Writing Trait focus Organization
Writing Process focus –
Transactional
(to inform others)
RA 59
- Descriptive (p. 260,
262, 264, 266, 270, 274, 276)
(PM Writing)
- Friendly letter (p. 254)
(un message gentil sur la table
d’un ami, 1ere année)
(les amis mystères, 2e année)
with Questioning, letter to an
author
Lucy Calkins – Launching WW
Bk1
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Learning to Write Strategies
 Stretching out words
 Using the word wall
 Spaces between words
(K. Brown – ‘spaghetti &
meatballs’
RA 11, 15,
19, 27, 35,
39
RA 4.1
Examining readable writing
punctuation
(Lucy Calkins – Writing for
Readers Bk.3)
Writing Trait focus Conventions


Second Term
– Dec Jan Feb Classroom Management and Structures
 Review of topics covered in First Term
March
Comprehension Strategies
Moodle – Kathryn Brown, Literacy Coaches
 Continue with Main Idea
 Visualizing (p. 190)
 Questioning – more in depth (Big and
Little Questions)
 Inferring (p. 200, 202, 204, 214)
(Debbie Miller – Reading With Meaning)
Learning to Read Strategies
 Review of strategies covered in First
Term
 Targeting individual/small group needs
Classroom Management and
Structures
 Review of First Term
topics
RA 7
RA 31, 23,
27, 47
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MODES OF WRITING:
Expressive
(for personal use)
Journals
Math journals
PM Writing
Poetic
(for the reader’s enjoyment)
- Fairy Tales (with
Visualizing) (see Natasha)
Transactional
(to inform others)
- Procedural
(How-To Books)
ex. Comment faire, un
hamburger, un oiseau, une
souris, GB+
(PM Writing
Lucy Calkins – Non-fiction
Writing Bk 6)
Writing Process focus –
- Persuasive
(PM Writing – Exposition
Literacy Place)
Writing Trait focus – Word
Choice and Voice
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Learning to Write Strategies
 Review the strategies as
needed
(Lucy Calkins - Writing for
Readers Bk.3)
Third Term –
April May
June
Classroom Management and Structures
 Review of topics covered in First and
Second Term
Comprehension Strategies (p. 200, 202)
 Introduction of non-fiction text
features
 Main Idea/Determining Importance
 Synthesizing (p. 188, 192)
Learning to Read Strategies
 Review of strategies covered in First
Term as needed
 Continue to target individual/small
group needs
MODES OF WRITING:
Transactional
(to inform others)
RA 23, 27
RA 3, 11
71, 75
- Descriptive (Non-fiction)
 Features of Non-fiction
booklet
 animal reports/research
project
(Lucy Calkins – Non-fiction
Writing Bk 6)
Tony Stead – Is That a
Fact?)
Poetic
(for the reader’s enjoyment)
- Free Verse
(Lucy Calkins – Poetry Bk 7
Regie Routman)
Learning to Write Strategies
 Review the strategies as
needed
(Lucy Calkins - Writing for
Readers Bk.3)
Other Resources Teaching in Action – Types of Writing p. 48
Traits of Writing – Ruth Culham “6 + 1 Traits of Writing”
Word Choice – Fancy Nancy Books
- Miriam Trehearne – “Million Dollar words”