Reading Workshop Reading Workshop is a 60 minute block of time. The structure for Reading Workshop is as follows:
Minilesson I will instruct the whole class on a skill, strategy, or habit that students need to learn and use during independent reading.
Independent Reading Students independently read Just-Right Books they have previously chosen from the classroom library.
Guided Reading Is designed to help students learn how to problem solve increasingly challenging texts with understanding and fluency. I will work with small groups of students reading at similar levels. I will select and introduce texts to readers. I will support individual students as they read instructional level texts and I will engage the readers in a discussion after reading. Students are grouped and regrouped according to ongoing observation and assessment by me.
Reading Conferences: While the children are reading independently, I will have conferences with each student and discuss reading strategies or skills, which the student can work on during their independent reading.
Wrap up/share This important time is used as a mini-lesson reinforcement, add-on, or to preview a coming lesson. A few students may share a strategy they used in their reading.
Mini-lessons include: · Reading skills and strategies · Phonics · Discussing story elements (character, plot, setting, main idea, story sequencing, mood, problem, solution etc.) · Graphic Organizers · Genre, poetry, personal narrative, memoir, non-fiction, fiction, biography, autobiography, etc.