Reading Workshop – Writing Workshop

Curricular Calendar
Reading Workshop Curriculum Map Writing Curricular Calendar
Assessment Assessment (3 days)
Interview to Assess Use of Reading Strategies Quick Publishing
Written Retelling
September Unit 1 (3 weeks)
How do we compose lives in which reading and The Writing Life: Launching the Writing
writing matter? Workshop

October Unit 2 (3-4 weeks)

How do we use talking and writing to encourage Memoir or Personal Narrative
and grow ideas?

November Unit 3 (2-3 weeks)

Making Connections Improving the Quality of Student Writing or
(text to self, text to text, text to world) Craft

Unit 4 (2 weeks)
A Study of Punctuation and Complex Sentence
Structure

December Unit 5 (3-4 weeks)

Relationship between writing about and talking Feature Article Study
about our written responses to text
January Unit 6 (3-4 weeks)
Questioning The Essay or Writing for the Test

February Unit 7 (4-5 weeks)

Visualizing Realistic Fiction

March Unit 8 (3-4 weeks)

Inferring Choosing a Mentor Author

April Unit 9 (3-4 weeks)

Determining Importance in Text (Nonfiction) Writing as Part of a Thematic Study

Unit 10
Reading and Writing Connections
May - June Unit 11 (2 weeks)
Synthesizing Revision

Unit 12 (2 weeks)
Writing Projects

Adapted by J. K. and O. K., Whittier School, Long Beach Unified School District, 8/2002
From Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Writing Curricular Calendar 2002-3