Procedural Texts in Readers' Workshop

Students love to make, build, and design things. A study of procedural texts allows student to explore different types of procedural texts: recipes, experiments, and rules, and heighten their desire to experiment and create! 

Students examine the big ideas of procedural texts. Attend to the text elements common among procedural tasks:

• Gather details necessary to understand the task. 
• Analyze how the organization impacts the reader’s ability to understand and follow the text.  
• Recognize that word choice (adverbial phrases, adjectives, and action verbs) enhances comprehension.  
• Notice how the author conveys the common purpose among procedural texts. 

Most importantly, students will develop skills and strategies to enhance reading and comprehension. Students will explore cause-and-effect, sequence, language cues and conventions, visualization, determining importance, and synthesis. 

Word Work

Due to requests, I have posted my Word Work schedule and task cards on my TPT store.The Word Work Weekly Menu resource features a schedule of tasks which allow experimentation with spelling patterns. By playing with vowel patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes, and so on, students hone their knowledge of words and increase their writing skills. 

The Word Work Menu outlines a variety of quick, fun tasks to be completed individually and cooperatively. The resource includes:

•  A daily schedule which outlines the tasks, The schedule outlines tasks which helps students actualize the spelling pattern in a variety of contexts: spelling,vocabulary, writing, and reading.
• Word Work Menu task cards which describe the activities. 
• Word Word Writing Tools task cards which suggest alternative tools, such as stamps, stencils, letter sponges, etc. to complete the task cards.