A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Units of Study, Grades K8

This new addition to the Workshop Help Desk Series includes information to support new users of the Units of Study with advice and help on topics such as:

• Getting your bearings
• Planning before you launch
• Setting up classroom spaces and routines to support workshop instruction
• Provisioning reading and writing workshops
• Priorities for beginning workshop teachers
• Launching reading and writing workshops
• Assessment essentials
• Growing into your workshop practice
• What we know grows powerful workshop teachers

About the Workshop Help Desk series
The Workshop Help Desk series is designed for teachers who believe in workshop teaching and who have already rolled up their sleeves enough to have encountered the predictable challenges. If you’ve struggled to get around quickly enough to help all your writers, if you’ve wondered how to tweak your teaching to make it more effective and lasting, if you’ve needed to adapt your teaching for English learners, if you’ve struggled to teach grammar or nonfiction writing or test prep…if you’ve faced these and other specific, pressing challenges, then this series is for you. Provided in a compact 5" x 7" format, the Workshop Help Desk series offers pocket-sized professional development.