Help your students "Build a Reading Life" and "Pencil in a Worthwhile Writing Life." This bundle includes minilesson anchor charts, reading and writing quotations, journal/writer's notebook prompts, and more!

Read my detailed minilesson about how I Launch the Reading Workshop with my Building a Reading Life Unit!

If you want to encourage students to be lifelong readers and writers, these units allow you to delve into their "loves" and "hates" about reading and writing. The information you glean will allow you to create more enthusiasm towards literacy and to target potential roadblocks with class discussions and goal setting.

Instill a love of reading from the beginning of the year with these readers' notebook journal prompts and quotation posters for a unit inspired by Lucy Calkins' concept of "Building a Reading Life." Initiate conversations in your minilessons at the beginning of the year get to know your students as readers and to identify their beliefs about reading that may be roadblocks for them this year. Your "Building a Reading Life" unit will help you encourage every child to cherish reading and create an outstanding "reading life."

Reading Workshop Launch Unit Contains:

• 10 minilesson notes and suggested anchor chart responses (includes rationale for teaching the specific lesson; 30 pages)
• 12 anchor chart parts for minilessons and bulletin boards (similar to the student journal prompts) - 4 different styles to choose from!
• 18 reading journal prompts (sized in 1/2-sheets) for the reader response notebook
• 16 quotations about reading (in poster and student journal format to initiate discussions/feelings about reading)
• Suggestions for read alouds about the importance of reading/reading life
• Detailed description of the first minilesson you can teach for this unit
• Suggested outline of 10 days of lesson topics
• Description of how to prep materials for this unit

• 12 minilesson notes and suggested anchor chart responses (Includes rationale for teaching the specific lessons; 36 pages)
• 14 anchor chart parts for bulletin boards (similar to the student journal prompts--for anchor charts) - 4 designs to choose from
• 18 journal pages (sized in 1/2-sheets) for student responses to discussions
• 15 quotations about writing (in poster and student student journal format to support your discussions and to initiate discussions/feelings about writing)
• Suggestions for read alouds/teacher resources
• Editable "Steps to the Writing Process" student handout

Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher

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