Short Texts, Mighty Mentors
Short texts are everywhere, and so are the readers who love them. In this workshop, learn how to select, plan with, and use short texts to increase reading volume and inspire opportunities for writing across content areas. From novel excerpts to the writing on the back of a cereal box, short texts have so much to teach our students about the form and function of reading and writing in the world. In this workshop we’ll use short texts to plan learning opportunities that harness the power of “short” to help readers and writers go the long distance. We will explore how to:
CONSUME, PRODUCE, SHARE, EXTEND—a process for considering what texts we choose to consume, how we mine texts for what matters, whether we want to produce something to share with others, and opportunities to extend our reading and writing
Curate and use non-fiction, fiction, poetry, environmental print and more!
Plan using templates that help you think through the trickiest parts of each text type and the stickiest ideas
Use short texts with all your readers (whole class, small groups, and one-to-one) and across the content areas
Create extensions for using each short text to inspire and inform writing
Check out our Short Texts at Your Fingertips blog series if you’d like to learn more about short texts!