Reader's Workshop

Reading Workshop

"This series builds on decades of teaching and research—in literally tens of thousands of schools. In states across the country, this curriculum has already given young people extraordinary power, not only as readers, but also as thinkers. When young people are explicitly taught the skills and strategies of proficient reading and are invited to live as richly literate people do, carrying books everywhere, bringing reading into every nook and corner of their lives, the results are dramatic."

-Lucy Calkins

Unit 1: We Are Readers

Children will develop concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and the knowledge necessary to use story language to support their approximations of reading.

Unit 2: Super Powers: Reading with Print Strategies and Sight Word Power

Glories in children’s love of play as they learn “super power” strategies that help them search for meaning, use picture clues, work on fluency, and communicate meaning.

Unit 3: Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles

Children attempt more difficult books with greater independence and use reading strategies to read with more accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.

Unit 4: Becoming Avid Readers

Helps youngsters role-play their way into being the readers you want them to become. They pay close attention to characters, setting, and plot while reading fictional stories, become experts in nonfiction topics as they read together in clubs, and play with rhyme and rhythm while reading poetry.