Lucy Calkins Reading Mats

At the beginning of the year i whipped up this freebie for y all for your student s reading mats.

Lucy calkins reading mats.

Students can glue the mat to a file folder. There are 2 options to choose from i. Units tools and methods for teaching reading and writing a workshop curriculum grades k 8 by lucy calkins and colleagues from tcrwp. It is the understatement of a lifetime to say that units of study grow out of years of work in thousands of classrooms.

Browse lucy calkins reading mat resources on teachers pay teachers a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources. Once they finish all of t. Then reading all books on the green dot side of their mat and transferring them to the red dot side. I use the lucy calkins units of study for teaching reading within my classroom and this works perfectly for my students.

Here s a version of reading mats you might want to use with your students. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. I love using reading mats. Using lucy calkins in your classroom.

So here they are and how they work. It encourages children to make a plan for their reading by stacking their books. Included is a one page reading mat place onto the cover of a file folder along with a green red clipart page place inside of the file folder and have students stack books on the green light then as they finish reading a book they draw a tally mark on the red sign place the. I added in the cute graphic ideas from liz dunford as well as some of my own ideas.

Mar 20 2016 so i finally finished my reading mats an idea that i received while at the reading institute at tcrwp. Each student has their own reading mat that they keep in their book baskets. It s a great way for students to know to read their books more than once. Dear teachers i couldn t be more delighted to be sharing this work with you.

About the series drawing on learning gleaned from decades of research curriculum development and working shoulder to shoulder with students teachers and school leaders lucy calkins and her colleagues at the teachers college reading and writing project have developed the units of study for teaching reading designed to meet ambitious 21st century global standards this reading. Accelerating achievement heinemann 2012 and navigating nonfiction in the units of study for teaching reading grades 3 5 series heinemann 2010. Your students can use the reading mat during independent reading or during partner reading time.