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Reading Workshop

Reading Workshop. In the Classroom. Reading Workshop. Reading Workshop is an organized set of language and literacy experiences designed to help students become more effective readers. “Workshop” suggests a group of people engaged in purposeful tasks. Students learn by doing!

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Reading Workshop

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  1. Reading Workshop In the Classroom

  2. Reading Workshop • Reading Workshop is an organized set of language and literacy experiences designed to help students become more effective readers. • “Workshop” suggests a group of people engaged in purposeful tasks. Students learn by doing! Guiding Readers and Writers p. 40 , Fountas & Pinnell

  3. Characteristics of a Reading Workshop • Genuine talk, reading, and writing. • Individual strengths and needs. • Individual and group responsibility. • High expectations for achievement. • High level of engagement. • A community of learners. Guiding Readers and Writers p. 42, Fountas & Pinnell

  4. Reading Workshop Basic Structure Book Talk Minilesson Independent Reading Group Sharing

  5. Book Talk A way to spark student’s interests and introduce them to new texts A brief commercial for a book Takes only one or two minutes Students or teachers give book talks Takes place at a communtiy class meeting GRW p. 120 Reading Workshop Book Talk Minilesson Independent Reading Group Sharing

  6. Minilesson Explicit teaching designed to help students work more productively during independent reading Focus on effective reading strategies and skills or on elements of literature About 10 minutes GRW p. 121 Reading Workshop Book Talk Minilesson Independent Reading Group Sharing • Introduce a concept • Give one or more clear examples • Ask students to generate additional examples • Remind students of what they have learned and how they will apply it in their own independent reading

  7. Independent Reading Students silently read books of their own choosing Designed to help students increase the time they spend reading Students keep their own records Students reflect on their reading topics, genres, difficulty of the text, how many books they are reading . . . 60 minutes a day GRW p. 116 Reading Workshop Book Talk Minilesson Independent Reading Group Sharing

  8. Group Sharing Readers gather in a meeting area to discuss their reading Sometimes readers can pair share at their seats Often the group share is related to the minilesson Should involve all students over time, but not everyone every day Group share reinforces students’ reading and extends their thinking Helps students learn to summarize GRW 124-125 Reading Workshop Book Talk Minilesson Independent Reading Group Sharing

  9. Reading Workshop Basic Structure Book Talk Minilesson Independent Reading Group Sharing Conferring Guided Reading Shared Reading Literature Circles Read Aloud Reading Response Journals

  10. Reading Workshop

  11. “A reading workshop is a laboratory in which individual students are busily engaged in reading that reflects real life; that is, they are reading in ways that match what readers do all their lives” Fountas & Pinnell

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