Workshop Structure

For Readers’ and Writers’ Workshop

Overview

Gather

Connect

Teach

Independent Work-Time

Closing

Gather

Students Are Called to the Gathering Area:

SignalStudents Come to the Rug/Meeting

Area With Materials NeededMay or May Not Assign PlacesBuilds a Sense of CommunityAll Ages Like to Come to the Rug

Connect: 1-2 Minutes

BRIEFLY Connect Students’ Prior Learning to Today’s Lesson and Show Previous Mini Lesson ChartINTRODUCE the STANDARD(s)- PostPOSE the ESSENTIAL QUESTION Posted on Your Current Mini Lesson Chart

FLDOE Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS)

Teach: 10-25 Minutes

EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! “I DO”

Model Skill/StrategyRead Aloud/Shared ReadingThink AloudDevelopment of Mini Lesson Chart

ACTIVE INVOLVMENT! “WE DO”Turn-And-TalkGuided PracticeDevelopment of Mini Lesson Chart

Independent Work-Time: 45-60 Minutes

Teacher Directed:Guided Reading/ Small Group Differentiated InstructionConferencingAssessments

Student Independent Work! ‘YOU DO”Independent ReadingReaders’ Response JournalReading LogAuthentic Literacy Activities: Partner Reading, Literature Circles, Listening Centers, Word Work, Skill/Strategy Practice, Technology-Based Practice.

Closing: 10 Minutes

Students:

•Lead the Share Chair•Take questions from other students•Explain the way they applied the skill or strategy to their reading•Always bring their journal and book used during Independent Reading•Give Book Talks

Closing: 10 Minutes

Teacher:•Summarizes the Skill/Strategy and develops the Mini Lesson Chart•Clears up any misconceptions•Guides students to answer the

Essential Question •Tells students what they will work on the next day