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Reading Workshop. In the Classroom. Reading Workshop. Reading Workshop is an organized set of language and literacy experiences designed to help students become more effective readers. “Workshop” suggests a group of people engaged in purposeful tasks. Students learn by doing! - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Reading WorkshopReading Workshop
In the ClassroomIn the Classroom
Reading Workshop
Reading Workshop is an organized set of language and literacy experiences designed to help students become more effective readers.
“Workshop” suggests a group of people engaged in purposeful tasks. Students learn by doing!
Guiding Readers and Writers p. 40 , Fountas & Pinnell
Characteristics of a Reading Workshop
Genuine talk, reading, and writing.Individual strengths and needs.Individual and group responsibility.High expectations for achievement.High level of engagement.A community of learners. Guiding Readers and Writers p. 42, Fountas & Pinnell
Reading Workshop Basic Structure
Book Talk
Minilesson
IndependentReading
Group Sharing
Book Talk
A way to spark student’s interests and introduce them to new texts
A brief commercial for a book
Takes only one or two minutes
Students or teachers give book talks
Takes place at a communtiy class meeting
GRW p. 120
Reading Workshop
Book Talk
Minilesson
Independent Reading
Group Sharing
Minilesson
Explicit teaching designed to help students work more productively during independent reading
Focus on effective reading strategies and skills or on elements of literature
About 10 minutes
GRW p. 121
Reading Workshop
Book Talk
Minilesson
Independent Reading
Group Sharing
•Introduce a concept
•Give one or more clear examples
•Ask students to generate additional examples
•Remind students of what they have learned and how they will apply it in their own independent reading
Independent Reading
Students silently read books of their own choosing
Designed to help students increase the time they spend reading
Students keep their own records
Students reflect on their reading topics, genres, difficulty of the text, how many books they are reading . . .
60 minutes a day GRW p. 116
Reading Workshop
Book Talk
Minilesson
Independent Reading
Group Sharing
Group Sharing
Readers gather in a meeting area to discuss their reading
Sometimes readers can pair share at their seats
Often the group share is related to the minilesson
Should involve all students over time, but not everyone every day
Group share reinforces students’ reading and extends their thinking
Helps students learn to summarize GRW 124-125
Reading Workshop
Book Talk
Minilesson
Independent Reading
Group Sharing
Reading Workshop Basic Structure
Book Talk
Minilesson
IndependentReading
Group Sharing
Conferring
Reading Response Journals
Guided Reading
Literature CirclesShared Reading
Read Aloud
Reading Workshop
60 – Minute Block
5 to 15 MinutesBook Talk (Optional)
MinilessonStatus of the Class
30 to 45 MinutesStudent:
Individual ReadingWritten ResponseLiterature Circles
Teacher:Small Group Instruction/
Guided ReadingConferring
5 to 10 MinutesGroup or Partner
Share
“A reading workshop is a laboratory in which individual students are busily engaged in reading that reflects real life; that is, they are reading in ways that match what readers do all their lives”
Fountas & Pinnell
