CANCELED - A peek into the inner workings of a student reader community, this session will help participants visualize a setting where students are actively engaged in book talks, know how to write and deliver a hot-off-the-presses book review and recommendation, and use skills built through integrated reading and writing workshop practices to find their unique voices. Teachers will walk away with lessons, research, and excitement to make their classroom into a reading community.
Critical Areas Addressed: Fluency, vocabulary development, drawing conclusions, analyzing author’s purpose, providing evidence from text to support analysis, Figure 19 (establishing purposes for reading, asking evaluative questions, monitoring comprehension, summarizing information in a text, making intertextual links, reflecting on understanding, making complex inferences)