Reading Workshop is designed to allow for a whole group lesson focused on one skill, strategy, or reading behavior and tailored to fit the needs of the class. Small group instruction and conferencing takes place during work time when children are working on their own or in partnership.

First Grade Units of Study

• In unit 1 of the first-grade units, Lucy and her coauthors invite teachers to establish ability-based partnerships that thrive on the social power of peer-based reading.

• Across the next unit, children study comprehension, word solving, vocabulary, and fluency in nonfiction.

• Unit 3 focuses on phonics to set readers up for complex texts.

• Finally, the last unit spotlights skills that are foundational to literal and inferential comprehension.