First Grade Readers: Units of Study to Help Children See Themselves as Meaning Makers

By Stephanie Parsons

Book Overview

Whether you're new to reading workshop or seeking continuity with your school's intermediate-grades curriculum, the units of study in Stephanie Parsons' First Grade Readers help make the road to independence shorter for your students. Reading achievement improves not with increased testing but with increased reading. And not just any reading, but repeated reading of relatively easy to decode, interesting, self-selected texts. First Grade Readers is a year of classroom-ready, developmentally appropriate instruction for reading workshop. Seven units are filled with the language and lessons of a master teacher and include detailed support structures for: Goal-Setting: specific rationales and instructional focal points Getting Ready to Teach: ideas for planning, organization, and materials Notes on Demonstration: techniques for modeling your reading to students Teaching the Units: guidance on minilessons, conferences, and mid-workshop teaching points Reflecting and Celebrating: ways students can share what they've learned Supporting the Unit: differentiation for advanced and struggling readers Checking In: strategies for finding out what students know and have learned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032501728X
• ISBN13: 9780325017280
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 1

Customer Reviews

If You Teach 1st Grade, You Have to Read This Book

This is an excellent resource book. In our school, we use Lucy Caulkins Units of Study. First Grade Writers is a great companion book for Caulkins' work. It starts with building a community of writers and pattern books. The children are so successful and it is easily differentiated. This is a book that you will continually revisit throughout years. A must have for first grade teachers!

Excellent resource for First Grade teachers

This is a helpful guide for First Grade teachers who want to incorporate the writing process into their classroom. The information is clear and well-organized and follows the flow of the school year.

An essential companion for teachers of First Grade Writers

Stephanie Parsons' book speaks directly to teachers. It explains the thinking behind a writing workshop - what we need to understand in order to set our own goals for our students and to plan and organise successful units of study. I love the way she has provided a consistent framework for the development of each unit of study; this so helps my own planning and then develops each part of the framework giving examples of possible teaching points. I have recommended this book to every First Grade teacher I know.

Right on Target

I love this book! I have been teaching first grade for eight years, and this book really addresses first grade writers as they truely are. It has some wonderful, concrete ideas for improving their writing. I especially like the suggestions of Read Aloud titles to teach specific writing points.