Reading Workshop
Students will be able to practice specific reading strategies in the areas of phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary through the following:
1. Mini-Lesson: The teacher will refer students back to books we have read already, and will have them focus on one specific topic or reading skill. The teacher will often model how to complete that skill with the book we know, and then have students try it out with a partner in a whole class setting.
2. Read Aloud: The teacher will read aloud to the students books that allow for demonstration of various reading strategies in both word decoding and comprehension. This is usually a longer form lesson and could even be continued across days depending on the book.
3. Independent Reading: Students will use the strategies modeled in Read Aloud and in their reading groups on their own while also improving their stamina at reading.
4. Reading Groups: Students will be reading with the teacher in small groups that focus in on specific student needs and strategies in reading comprehension and decoding skills.
5. Conferencing: Students will meet with the teacher one on one to discuss their reading and skills they can work on specifically.
Units of Study:
Unit 1: Launching Readers Workshop
Unit 2: Print Strategies & Reading Fluency
Unit 3: Nonfiction
Unit 4: Fiction
Unit 5: Deepening Comprehension
Unit 6: Nonfiction Content Area - Science
Unit 7: Readers Care About Characters