Literacy
Workshop

During our literacy workshop we will be practicing strategies and skills to help us become better readers and writers. We will be studying different genres to figure out how they genre work then we will use this information to write our own original pieces. Some of the genres we studying are mystery, memoirs, pourquoi tales, and non-fiction.

 

Mysteries

Recommended
Site

Recommended Texts
The Wretched Stone
The Stranger

Featured Authors:
Donald Sobol
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Lucinda Landon
Chris Van Allsburg

Book Lists:
Mystery Books
It's a Mystery


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memoirs

Featured
Authors:

Patricia Polacco
Tomie dePaola

Recommended Texts:
When I was Young in the Mountains
Thunder Cake



 

 

 

 

 

Pourquoi Tales

Featured Text:
How & Why Stories
by Hamilton & Weiss

Recommended Sites:
Why The Giraffe Can't Speak
How Raven Stole the Sun
Several Tales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-fiction

Featured Authors:
Seymour Simon
Gail Gibbons
Patricia Lauber

Recommended Texts:
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man Alive
Earthquakes

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some sites to help you practice the skills and strategies we will be using this year during our literacy workshop.
Challenge yourself!

Multiple Choice

Main Idea:
Practice
Quizzes

Context Clues:
Practice
Quizzes

Inference

Locating Information:
Practice
Quizzes
More than One Area

Compare & Contrast:
Practice
Quizzes

Predicting Text Context
Fact or Opinion
Author's Purpose

 

Independent Projects
Ben There Done That!
Aesop's Fables

 

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