Engaging With Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 3-5


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About This Workshop Asking Questions: An Interactive Guide

1. Foundations 2. Looking at Literature 3. Starting Classroom Conversations 4. Classroom Dialogues 5. Using Art and Other Disciplines To Enrich Classroom Conversations 6. Beginning the Year 7. Many Students: Many Voices and Abilities 8. Reacting to Students’ Work 9. The Professional Teacher

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The complete guide to the workshop session activities is available here for download in PDF. You will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files. You can download it for free from Adobe.

Some of the activities discussed in this workshop are explained in detail in the Engaging With Literature: A Video Library. Related Teacher Tools and Student Activity Sheets from the library are included here for your convenience.

Introduction (PDF)

Workshop 1 - Foundations (PDF)

Workshop 2 - Looking at Literature (PDF)

Workshop 3 - Starting Classroom Conversations

Related Engaging With Literature Library Activity Sheets:

Workshop 4 - Classroom Dialogues (PDF)

Workshop 5 - Using Art and Other Disciplines To Enrich Classroom Conversations (PDF)

Related Engaging With Literature Library Activity Sheets:

Workshop 6 - Beginning the Year (PDF)

Workshop 7 - Many Students: Many Voices and Abilities (PDF)

Teacher Tool: Social Reading Strategies (PDF)

Workshop 8 - Reacting to Students' Work (PDF)

Workshop 9 - The Professional Teacher (PDF)

Appendix (PDF)