Saturday, September 12, 2015

Reading Workshop


We use a reading workshop format during our literacy instruction.  This allows students to practice their strategies with a lot of independent reading and writing.  It also gives them some choice in their learning which definitely leads to motivation!   During workshop time you will find me leading short whole group mini-lesson on reading skills and strategies, working with small groups of students for guided reading lessons, and working with individual students.  Both learning to read and reading to learn take a tremendous amount of work, so it is vital that students build their reading and writing stamina.  These first few weeks have been filled with numerous opportunities to practice our procedures and also to train our bodies so our independent stamina can increase.  We utilize the Daily 5 framework so students get chances to "Read to Self"," "Read to Someone," "Work on Writing', "Listen to Reading," and "Work with Words."  Enjoy a few photos from our reader's workshop!  





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