The Carriere Kids

Daily 5:
During Reading Workshop students are given choices about what they would like to do to become better readers. They can choose from the 5 choices below and rotate choices every 20 minutes, the sixth choice being reading with Mrs. C. At the beginning of the year we will have shorter rotations until we build up our stamina. Before choosing, we create classroom "I-Charts", which are Independence charts that help us become independent and build our stamina to work by ourselves. These charts use our own language to describe what each Daily 5 choice looks like for students and teacher. You can see an example of our "I-Charts" here!

Read to Self	This is when we enjoy books by quietly reading and thinking about our reading.
Read to Someone	We really love to share books with friends and we learn many ways to share our reading during Read to Someone.
Listen to Reading	We become stronger readers when we listen to fluent, expressive reading at Tumblebooks on the computer or by listening to books on tapes and CDs.
Work on Writing	When we see that reading and writing are connected, we're discovering something amazing! During Work on Writing we get to write about anything that sparks our interest!
Word Work	Word Work is our way of exploring words. We can practice our spelling and vocabulary with lots of materials like beans, wikki sticks, fuzzy stems, clay, whiteboards, and much more.
Read with Mrs. C	Mrs. C loves to read with us and we love to share the same book in our small groups.

Reading CAFE:
Our classroom has a CAFE Strategy bulletin board for our CAFE mini-lessons. CAFE stands for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. Every day we will begin reading with a CAFE mini-lesson before making our Daily 5 choices. These CAFE mini-lesson strategies are placed on our bulletin board so that we can always have a visual reminder of the strategies we've learned and use daily. As we learn new strategies, more will be added to the chart below!

Comprehension	Accuracy	Fluency	Expanding Vocabulary
I can understand what I read	I know all of the words	I can read accurately, with expression, and understanding	I know, find, and can use interesting words.
Check for Understanding Back Up and Reread Monitor and Fix Up Retell the story Make a mind movie Ask Questions and Wonder Predict Infer Use Text Features Summarize Main Idea & Supporting Details Think About Author's Purpose Literary Elements: Plot, Characters, Setting, Problem & Solution Cause-Effect Compare/Contrast	Cross Checking Use Words & Pictures Use Beginning & Ending Sounds Blend, Stretch and Read Flip the Sound Chunking Skip and Come Back Trade-a-Word	Choose a Just Right Book Voracious Reading Reread Text Practice Site Words Match Your Reading Rate with the Text Use Punctuation	Tune into interesting words Voracious Reading Use Pictures, Diagrams and Illustrations Use Word Parts: Prefixes, Suffixes, origins, abbreviations Use Prior Knowledge and Context to Predict and Confirm Ask Someone for the Definition Use Tools: Dictionaries, Thesauruses, & Glossaries

Reading is Thinking!

In our classroom we talk a lot about how reading is thinking. Without thinking, we aren't really reading! To practice thinking, we've made a reading salad and brainstormed our thoughts on sticky notes, with partners, and in lots of other ways. Here is a poster we keep in our classroom to help us remember to always think while we read, along with a chart paper showing some sticky notes representing our thoughts while reading. We are THINKERS!!!

(This chart came from the book Comprehension Connections by Tanny MacGregor,
I highly recommend it for ALL teachers, it's a must-have!)

Storytown

In our school, grades K-2 are using the Storytown Reading Program.

In second grade we will share 2 reading anthologies during the year, you can see them here: Storytown ebook. There is also a set of Intervention books you can look at. Here is where you look for audio versions of our Anthology Big Books!

Below, you will find links to some of the stories we will be reading in our guided reading groups. Once we've read them together as a group, kids will be able to partner read during Read to Someone and can use these links to read them at home too! Enjoy!

Red Readers

Blue Readers

Green Readers

ELL Readers

Go to ThinkCentral!

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