Components of Kindergarten Reading

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Components of Reading Workshop

Reading Workshop’s Awesomeness

One specific strategy is taught each day Readers get to practice each day Developmentally appropriate Differentiated Mimics real life reading Time to meet with small groups, guided reading and 1:1 conferences

September - December

September Reading Block...

September Reading Block...

September Week by Week

What the teacher is doing What the students are doing

October Week by WeekWhat the teacher is doing What the students are doing

September: Exploring the exciting world of books and poems

Routines The ‘workshop’

Loving Books How to choose books we are engaged with

Concepts of Print Front/Back, Letters, Words, L-R

“Growing Books” Reading the pictures

October: Star Books

Story telling Paying attention to pictures

Story sequencing Noticing and remembering what happens in a story

What happens in Familiarity with story structures story books

“Buddy” Work How to talk about books

Beginning to notice letters/words on page Sight words/letters studied

November: Super Readers

Reading shared reading Following a patterned text

Interactive writings Using pictures for help

Actually reading! 1 : 1 correspondence

Reading (L-R) and

return sweep (T-B)

December: Shared Reading & Songs

Pushing students towards Conventional reading trickier books

Making books come alive Fluency, storytelling, voice

Noticing all the parts Connecting letters–sounds, of their book covers-insides, etc.

New information Learning from books

January - June

January: Readers have lots of strategies to figure out words and are eager

Just Right Books Students can be independent readers

! : ! matching Builds confidence from where they are

Using the pictures Everyone reads what is just right for themto solve tricky words

Sight Words To put all these strategies we’ve been learning together and read!Patterns

New Library: Leveled Books for all Readers!

February: Readers are story Detectives who use the patterns in our books to figure out our stories.

Finding patterns Prediction as part of reading

Paying attention to Retell / Comprehensionthe book’s pattern

Using the pattern Print workto tackle tricky words

Looking for objects Use picture cues to read or action on page unknown text

Reading again and again Fluency

March: Readers are brave and resourceful when we encounter hard words and tricky parts of our books.

Notice the tricks Being flexible with strategies

Modeling solving tricky words

Rereading Favorite part/new/character Showing your partner Connecting

April: Readers get to know the characters in their books.

Paying attention to Inference, connections the characters

Paying attention to Envisioning the illustrations

Acting out

New Library: Sorted by character

May: Readers learn information about the world through our books.

Study different topics Books have information/teach us

Partners share info We can see things differentlyLooking at book first PredictionWhat am I learning? SynthesisNew & exciting things! Excitement of reading to learn

New Library: Non-Fiction books

June: Readers learn information about the world through our books.

Recognizing reading Making connections between as a gift books and people

Unleveled books Fluency & expression

Appreciation for reading

Outside of school “survival”

New Library: mixed books