PDT-TchLA-08 - Nonfiction Literacy Instruction and Common Core

Course Description

This workshop will look at different ways teachers can approach nonfiction reading and writing that engage students and align with Common Core Standards. Students are expected to read and write more nonfiction texts than ever before. We will examine how the demands of Common Core can be woven into the core tenets of nonfiction literacy instruction: workshop model, student choice, and small group instruction. Participants will see many samples of students engaged in reading and writing nonfiction texts. Classroom teachers, special educators and literacy specialists/coaches will leave with strategies, approaches, ideas and mentor texts that can be used when working with students on reading and writing nonfiction texts.