We’re delighted you’re seeking resources to help you simplify your move to readers-writers workshop. We’re always hoping to make your work as a teacher easier, more enjoyable, and more student-centered, so below are links to booklists, helpful blog posts, sample mini-lessons, mentor texts, presentations, and more that you may find helpful.
If you have any specific questions, please see the About Us page to find our contact info, and get in touch with any of us anytime.
In gratitude for your partnership in this important work–
The Three Teachers Talk Team
Amy Rasmussen, Lisa Dennis, Shana Karnes
If you’re just starting out…
- Resources to Make Your Move to Readers Writers Workshop
- 10 Pedagogical Must-Reads for Workshop Teachers
- Workshop Protocol to Integrate Reading/Writing in Each Lesson
- Workshop Essentials & Non-Negotiables
- Blank Conference Notes Template
- Moving Beyond the 4×4 Classroom by Kelly Gallagher
- 4 Reasons to Confer
Classroom Library Resources
- Growing Your Classroom Library
- Middle Grade Titles for Your Classroom Library
- High School Titles for Your Classroom Library
Craft Studies & Mini Lessons
- Five Writing Mini-Lessons Using Self-Selected Books
- Craft Study Passages from Novels
- Workshop-Ready Activities, Projects, & More
- Excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Excerpt from Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
- The Journey by Mary Oliver
- Creed by Meg Kearney
Mentor Texts & Quickwrites
- Resources for Nonfiction Mentor Texts
- 7 Years by Lukas Graham (accompanying video)
- My Honest Poem by Rudy Francisco (accompanying video)
- Book Talk Triple Plays (one text = booktalk, craft study, writing prompt)
- Capture This: It’s Wrong to Play Pokemon at Auschwitz by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
- Dallas Can Blaze a Path Out of Suffocating Racism by Chequan Lewis
Presentations
- EdCollab Gathering Spring 2016
- NCTE November 2016
- TCTELA 2018 — Galveston, TX Right Now Literacy: Reimagining Instructions Through Secondary Readers-Writers Workshop, Amy Rasmussen
Please let us know in the comments if there are more resources you need, ideas you have for links to posts you’ve found helpful, and more!
Three Teachers Talk 
Apppreciate you blogging this
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Is there a place we can submit articles we’ve written, rooted in teacher research?
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Hi Lauren! You can email them to shanakarnes@gmail.com.
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A teacher on FB told me about your page. Thank you for this! I want to teach using the workshop model, but I’m overwhelmed. Your page is helpful!
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Thanks so much for these resources! We are moving to workshop and these resources will be very helpful!
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Hi there! I teach HS English 2 (sophomores) and one of my teammates and I are going to implement Workshop next year. We are currently laying the groundwork, etc. one of the things I can’t find is information for folks who don’t teach their students daily. We are on an A/B block schedule. Students have 4 classes of 90 minutes each that meet every other day. Does this change anything about the way we should structure our classes?
Just seeking clarity! Thanks so much. I’m so glad I found y’all!
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