Each Reading Workshop session will begin with a mini-lesson that lasts approximately 10-15 minutes. Each mini-lesson will focus on a reading strategy. All of the reading strategies will help prepare the students for a life long love of reading. Most strategies will be studied over the course of a week.
Independent Reading: The students read independently for about 45 minutes to an hour. During independent reading time, the students should practice the skill that they learned from the mini-lesson.
Reading Response Notebooks: The students write in their readers notebook during their reading independent time. In this time, students will read and write all about their reading.
Guided Reading: I meet with a small group of students. We read a book together and practice different reading strategies.
Conferring with Students: I meet with individual students to assess their progress.
Students use their Reader's Notebooks to:
●Record books they've read
●Keep track of the genres they are reading
●List books they would like to read in the future
●Write about what they are reading and things they have learned about their reading
●Prepare for Guided Reading and Literature Circles
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