
Language is a Study in Relations
CRITICAL READING
Tiny Woman Wordshop’s total literacy approach shows how the two communicative aspects of language—the literary and linguistic—are unified by their structural relationships, and how these dynamic structures are related to the fundamental ways we think. These dynamic structures help students develop critical comprehension along with reading and writing competencies.
COHESIVE WRITING
Our approach includes a comprehensive writing component that relates exposition and narrative across the multi-literacies within the classroom. During seminars, we work with teachers to explore the easy-to-learn literacy frameworks that give shape to the texts students read, write and view. As students develop their understandings of how we relate language structures to communicate important ideas through various text forms and formats, they in turn can use these relationships to express their own thoughts and ideas with clarity and cohesion.
TOTAL LITERACY
We relate each component of language meaningfully to every other component of language, by means of ‘big ideas’. These ‘big ideas’ form a dynamic framework that students can transfer to each new literacy experience they encounter. Students can also use this framework to develop meaning in other contexts: it becomes a way for students to think critically about the different perspectives, social issues and environmental concerns within their own lives, and local and world communities.
Meet Our Team
Tiny Woman Wordshop was founded to develop a research-based comprehensive literacy approach for practical classroom instruction and student learning.




