Launch Your Reading and Writing Workshop With Your Students' Hopes and Dreams First!

Did you know that you can take your students’ hopes and dreams and do a whole lot with it during those first few weeks of school. Of course, you can use them to get to know your students in a more intimate way and build those positive relationships with them. But you can also use their hopes and dreams to co-create the class rules or agreements together. 

Now in today’s show we are going to chat about a third way you can use your students’ hopes and dreams. And it has something to do with reading and writing workshop. Did you know that you can use your students’ hopes and dreams to help launch routines and expectations for reading and writing workshop? Well…that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about in today’s show.

Are you ready to have a step-by-step process to help you launch reading and writing workshop with your students' hopes and dreams?

In this Episode, we will chat about:

• The 4 Main Parts of the workshop model
• A step-by-step process to using your students hopes and dreams for reading and writing as springboard into launching routines and expectations for reading and writing workshop.

Are you ready to get started? Let’s do this!

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Free Guide: Transform Your Literacy Classroom Into A Learner Driven Community

What is Reading Workshop

5 Ways to Make Your Reading and Writing Workshop More Learner Driven

Student Hopes and Dreams: Back to School Goal Setting Activity