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Reader's Workshop

This year, in addition to Daily Literacy Stations, students will be taking part in Reader's Workshop. The purpose of Reader's Workshop is to provide children with authentic experiences that nurture the love of reading and allow them to explore text in a variety of ways.  The workshop also helps to build a community of readers as students take responsibility for their learning, establish connections, respond to text and share what they have learned with their peers.

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What does Reader's Workshop look like in our room?

Mini-Lesson (7-10 minutes)
  • Teacher is working with whole class.
  • Teacher makes a connection to a previous lesson or ongoing study.
  • Teacher introduces a specific reading skill or strategy.
  • Teacher models how to use skill or strategy while actively engaging students in learning experience.

Independent Work Time (60 minutes)
  • Students are at literacy stations working on reading response, reading to self, reading to someone, working with words or listening to reading.
  • Teacher is working with small groups to model, practice reading strategies and conference with individual students.
Wrap Up and Share (10 - 15 minutes)
  • Students meet as a whole class or with a partner to discuss books they are reading and strategies they utilized during independent work time.
Mentor Text Connection (10-15 minutes)
  • Depending on available time, the teacher may open the lesson with a read-aloud.
  • Teacher uses text which allows her to model a skill or strategy.to be taught.

Our tentative units of study for Reader's Workshop

Unit 1:
Launching Reader's Workshop

Unit 2:
Readers Think and Talk About Books

Unit 3 :
Readers Use Strategies

Unit 4:
Poetry and Inferring

Unit 5:
Mental Images and Questioning

Unit 6:
The Importance of Non-Fiction

Unit 7:
Story Shape, Structure and Characters

Unit 8:
Synthesizing

Unit 9:
Biographies

Unit 10:
Learning From Informational Text

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