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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After the news came out about Calkins, our district switched to a revised model called Literacy Studio. I have no idea if it's any better than Calkins, but it sounds similar to what PPs have said about about writing workshop. It's too early for me to know whether the students are learning to write, but most are at least reading at or close to grade level.

"Workshop teachers struggle with time—building in two teaching sessions, one for reading and another for writing.  There is just too much to do, too many transitions, and very little integration of reading and writing.  To compound the frustration, we find that our students don’t have nearly enough time to read and write independently.

Enter the Literacy Studio, an alternative workshop model that combines reading and writing. It’s a way of teaching that makes sense to kids –with more time for choice, independent reading and writing, small group work, and conferring. The Literacy Studio defines and describes this new model and makes clear, through lesson samples, student work, and conversations with teachers just how much more efficient and effective literacy learning is when students see themselves as writers who read and readers who write."
 https://www.heinemann.com/products/e12005.aspx#fulldesc[/quote]

Isn't Heinemann the textbook publisher that made a ppile hy selling Lucy Calkins stuff?

I am suspicious that this "new" Literacy Studio curriculum is just repackaged junk. In any case, if it were legit then it probably would be in Virginia's approved literacy curriculum list, which it isn't. [/quote]

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