Published by Stacey Shubitz
I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island.
I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010).
I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.
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I introduce my reader’s to the workshop atmosphere with an Andrew Clements novel. They love his writing and I have found it really lifts the quality of writing for my boys when I use it. Last year we read Frindle, but this year we are reading No Talking. Started it today and it is a HUGE hit!
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Please feel free to write about reading anytime. My school is doing Reader’s Workshop training today and tomorrow to get us ready for school. I did some Writer’s Workshop training over the summer and wow am I feeling immersed! Bring it on!
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@literacyspark: That’s a GREAT one. My fourth graders LOVED it (especially the chunk that’s ‘bitten’ out of the back of the book).
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I found a new one that I love called the Incredible Book Eating Boy. It’s about a boy who starts eating books and gets really smart, until one day when he eats to many and gets sick. After that he can barely tie his shoes so he decides to read the books instead. It’s a really cute book and it even has a bite chunk taken out of the back cover. What I like about it is the bigger message that it’s not enough to just devour books but that you need to think about them and enjoy them as well. : )
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I know that it seems passe to use Brown Bear, Brown Bear on the first day of school but I teach preschool and our first day is orientation day for the families as well so I have parents sitting with their children for our first story time. Most of my families don’t speak English and so Brown Bear is successful because everyone gets into the rhythm of it and the parents are so happy that their children demonstrate success on the first day. It also becomes the perfect set up for I Went Walking (sorry the author’s name escapes me!) that I use for more curriculum and book-making the rest of the first month.
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