For literacy, I love this school district site: www.wrsd.net/literacy
On this site, I find scripted mini-lessons for those really important lessons and a year-long calendar of readers workshop minilessons which contains the meat of a teaching objective. Go to the left-hand side of the page and hover over Elementary Curriculum, then look at both the focus lessons, which are scripted, and the unit trajectories, or curriculum maps.
Last year, I used the unit trajectories to form most of my year's reading curriculum plan or map. This year, I will follow the Teacher's College Reading and Writing Projects reading calendar, but I will still use many mini-lessons from this site.
Some of my colleagues seem overwhelmed in our transition to Readers Workshop because they will have to create so many mini-lessons, but after teaching many of the mini-lessons from the WRSD site, I feel confident in my ability to create many mini-lessons. I will also use some familiar resources to many, including Growing Readers and Reading with Meaning for K-2 students and the new TC Reading Units of Study, Lucy Calkins' The Art of Teaching Reading and Stephanie Harvey's Comprehension Toolkit and Strategies That Work, edition 1 or edition 2.
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