As we navigate through the beginning of the year in Reading Workshop, students will...
📚Learn and practice procedures
📚Log their reading at home and at school
📚Build their reading stamina through setting goals and implementing refocusing strategies
📚Jot post-its/place bookmarks (to show thinking) while reading
📚Learn to read with fluency
📚Work cooperatively with reading partners
See the charts below to track our latest learning!
2S learns to compare their reading to how different types of shoes can feel! We look for sneakers for just-right reading, while keeping in mind that dress shoes can be broken in and feel better with time!
In order to increase reading stamina and self-monitoring, readers work to create a productive environment. The chart to the left dispays 2S's descriptions of what Reading Workshop looks like, sounds like, and feels like.
Readers need to stay aware of the type of reading they are doing. If they realize they are doing fake reading, they should make adjustments to do real reading instead. Our class chart shows the elements of Real Reading and Fake Reading.
Readers know that when they start to lose focus, they can utilize one or many of our classroom focus tools in order to read longer and stronger. Each person's choice is unique and that's OK because we get what we need in 2S.
2S learned their responsibilities during all parts of a mini-lesson. We know that it looks a lot like Magic 5 to the teacher and to our turn-and-talk partners! We listen for key phrases like "Today I'm going to teach you..." to help us know what to do.
We book shop each week with those who sit in our bunch. To ensure book shopping success, we talked about the process as caring for the people around us, as well as the books.
2S is learning and practicing routines for Reading Workshop. Check out what we do to get ourselves ready to learn and read every day.
Second grade readers grow like beanstalks by using particular strategies before and while reading.
Readers will understand what they read even better if they make their voice match the feeling of the story as they read.
One way to make sure you are working your reading muscles and pushing them to get stronger is by setting goals before you read. See the different goal categories and 2S examples below.
Readers get their minds ready to read by taking a grown up, second grade sneak peek of a book before getting to reading.
Readers set goals, read to achieve, and then set more goals to challenge themselves to read longer and stronger.
2Sers can give a strong retell every time if they stick to the trusted five-finger retell!
Another strategy to grow as a reader, is to stop every so often, think about what you've just, and retell across your fingers. Words such as "first, next, then, after that, and finally" can help keep details in order.
2S readers have added another step to their "during reading" practice. After stopping, thinking, and retelling, students jot to build up their comprehension of a story.
Certain readers jot symbols during their second reading of a book. These symbols represent their reactions to the text and prove that they are reflecting on their reading. Other readers jot full sentences on post-its using the sentence starters below. See our possible jots above.
When readers get tripped up by tricky words, they merely go into their reading tool belt and pull out the strategies that work best for them or make the most sense with the word. For example, we would s-t-r-e-t-c-h out the sounds of a short word then slide them together, but chunk sounds together for longer, more difficult words.
2nd grade readers notice how characters feel, then stop to write strong jots. Strong feelings post-its include a juicy, descriptive vocabulary word and specific text evidence.
2S compared two post-it examples and found which was the strongest example. Each student has his/her own copy of a strong and weak post-it to reference when evaluating their own post-its.