Videos from the School Leadership Retreat
On July 27, 2010, the Reading and Writing Project led a conference day on the Common Core State Standards for 170 New York City school leaders. The following video-clip captures one of the workshops that we led during that day--you are welcome to share it with others as long as you forgive the informality of the production. This was done on a shoe-string and makes no attempt to be a professional production with all the bells and whistles.
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Presenter: Mary Ehrenworth
Title: Help Teachers Grades 3-12 Rise to the CCS Challenge of Teaching Higher Level Comprehension Skills and Literary Traditions
Synopsis: In this workshop, Mary Ehrenworth celebrates the fact that the Common Core Standards will help teachers to nudge students to develop the interpretation skills that are so important. Increasingly, readers in reading workshops are becoming avid readers, and this is a wonderful thing. But sometimes, these readers are mostly plot junkies, reading to learn what happens next. In this session, Mary suggests five or six kinds of work that teachers will want to do to support students becoming readers who read also to make meaning. That is, a student who is reading Wringer in just the same way in which he read Nate the Great is probably missing out on a lot of opportunities!
