Cristy

Posted on 6/25/09

Just because the workshop method allows for a ton of student
choice, doesn't mean there isn't also structure in place to
support your students' learning. To be effective, reading and
writing workshop needs to be supported by daily mini-lessons,
high standards, modeling, and whole group literature lessons.
You can certainly build in mini-lessons for test preparation
and you can do a writing workshop unit on writing on demand.
Of course, any good instruction in reading and writing would
"prepare" students to perform on a test.

On 6/24/09, Joy wrote:
> Our district is requiring that all high school lang. arts
> teachers use the "balanced literacy" "readers/writers
> workshop model" for teaching which allows a ton of student
> choice. I'm not sure if this will prepare students to
> successfully pass the ACT and SAT. Any thoughts or
> experience with this?

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