Reading Workshop
WORKSHOP PHILOSOPHY
"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
What are the 10 essentials of reading instruction?
Above all, good teachers matter.
Readers need long stretches of time to read.
Readers need opportunities to read high-interest, accessible books of their own choosing.
Readers need to read increasingly complex texts appropriate for their grade level.
Readers need direct, explicit instruction in the skill and strategies of proficient reading.
Readers need opportunities to talk and sometimes to write in response to texts.
Readers need support reading nonfiction books and building a knowledge base and academic vocabulary through information reading.
Readers need assessment-based instruction, including feedback that is tailored specifically to them.
Readers need teachers to read aloud to them.
Readers need a balanced approach to language arts, one that includes a responsible approach to the teaching of writing as well as reading.
