Table of Contents

Writing for Audience and Purpose

  • Session 1: Welcome to Regie Routman in Residence
  • Session 2: Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching
  • Session 3: Examining Our Beliefs About Teaching Writing for Audience and Purpose
  • Session 4: Teachers as Writers
  • Session 5: Planning for Genre Writing
  • Session 6: Immersing Your Students in a Genre
  • Session 7: Demonstrating Writing
  • Session 8: Public Content Conferences
  • Session 9: Negotiating Editing Expectations
  • Session 10: Editing Conferences
  • Session 11: Application of Learning: A Teacher's Changing Beliefs and Practices
  • Session 12: Changing Beliefs and Practices: A Conversation with a Student
  • Session 13: Re-Examining Our Beliefs and Celebration of Learning
  • Tools for Ongoing Writing Assessment

Reading / Writing Connections

  • Session 1: Welcome to Regie Routman in Residence
  • Session 2: Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching
  • Session 3: Examining Our Beliefs About Reading/Writing Connections
  • Session 4: Setting Up the Classroom for Independent Readers and Writers
  • Session 5: Reading and Writing Lots of Texts
  • Session 6: Reading to Writing: Creating Relevant Texts
  • Session 7: Shared Writing to Reading
  • Session 8: Word Work: Teaching and Assessing Skills in Context
  • Session 9: Writers Become Readers Through Daily Writing
  • Session 10: Reading and Writing Book Reviews
  • Session 11: Reading and Writing Poetry
  • Session 12: Reading and Writing Nonfiction Reports
  • Session 13: Using Writing to Reach and Teach Struggling Learners
  • Session 14: Re-Examining Our Beliefs and Celebration of Learning

Reading to Understand

  • Session 1: Welcome to Regie Routman in Residence
  • Session 2: Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching
  • Session 3: Examining Our Beliefs About Reading to Understand
  • Session 4: Reading for Independence: Getting Started
  • Session 5: Teaching for Independence: Monitoring and Guiding Students’ Comprehension as They Read on Their Own
  • Session 6: Using an Informal Reading Conference to Change a Child’s Reading Life
  • Session 7: Reading and Thinking Aloud with a Nonfiction Text
  • Session 8: Using Shared Read-Aloud to Teach Comprehension
  • Session 9: Accelerating Readers Through Guided Reading
  • Session 10: Grouping for Guided Reading in the Intermediate Grades
  • Session 11: Increasing Comprehension Through Oral Retelling and Summarizing
  • Session 12: Facilitating Student-Directed Literature Conversations
  • Session 13: Re-Examining Our Beliefs and Celebration of Learning