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What is Readers' Workshop?
What is Readers' Workshop?
"Reading Workshop is an instructional practice that will help your children grow as readers, speakers, and independent thinkers. Through Reading Workshop, you will be able to create a literary community excited about reading and engaged in the process of becoming fluent readers and thinkers. You will be able to teach important lessons in all areas of reading – from book choice to building reading stamina to decoding skills to comprehension. Most importantly, you’ll be providing them with time to read and guidance in doing so, key factors in promoting successful readers. Teaching children to learn how to read, understand what they read, and find joy in the process of reading is a complex task. Your children need time to develop these skills." - Children's Literacy Initiative
Three Major Components of an Effective Tier 1 Reading Workshop
Three Major Components of an Effective Tier 1 Reading Workshop
"Reading workshops are deliberately designed to offer a simple and predictable environment so that the teacher can focus on the complex work of observing students' progress and teaching into their needs.
Each session begins with a minilesson. Kids sit with a long-term partner while in the minilesson.
The minilesson ends with the kids being sent off to their own independent work.
As students work, the teacher confers with them and leads small groups.
Partway through independent work time, the teacher stands and delivers a mid-workshop teaching point.
The workshop ends with a share. " Lucy Calkins - -www.unitsofstudy.com/framework
District 6 Literacy Framework and
District 6 Literacy Framework and
Reading Workshop Scaffolding Structures
Reading Workshop Scaffolding Structures
Our district literacy coaches have worked to develop iteracy frameworks for elementary and middle schools that can help provide teachers with time frames and descriptions of the literacy block that incorporate these essential components as well as scaffolding structures of reading workshop. Please click the links below to view these pages.
K-2 District 6 Literacy Framework
3-5 District 6 Literacy Framework
Phonics Word Study/Workshop Curriculum
Interactive Read Aloud Resources
Reading Workshop at West View Elementary
Reading Workshop at West View Elementary
Take a look at how West View Elementary structures Reading Workshop during Tier 1 classroom instruction.
Gradual Release of Responsibility / Optimal Learning Model
Gradual Release of Responsibility / Optimal Learning Model
Reading workshop is an organizational framework for teaching writing that provides students with a gradual release of instruction model that begins with teacher-led direct instruction, followed by time each day for students to apply what they are learning in their own independent reading as well as opportunities to receive feedback through conferencing and share time.
What Does Reading Workshop Look Like?
What Does Reading Workshop Look Like?
There is no set program or formula for implementing reader’s workshop. It will look different in different classrooms, but student ownership and choice, daily sustained time for reading, and feedback to student reading will be valued.
Reader’s Workshop typically consists of five main parts: mini-lesson, independent writing time, conferencing and small group instruction, mid-workshop teaching, and share time.
To see a reading workshop in action, take a look at the video to your left. You will see how this first grade teacher intentionally implements an gradual release structure beginning with modeling for students how to use the "Skip and Return" strategy to identify unknown words in her focused mini-lesson, followed by student work time, and feedback she provides through individual conferencing.
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