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Reader's Workshop
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Mini-lesson (10-15 minutes)
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Each Reading Workshop session will begin with a mini lesson that lasts approximately 10-15 minutes. Each mini lesson will
focus on a reading strategy. There may be times where a strategy will be studied over the course of several days, in which
case the mini lessons that week will be related to that strategy.
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Examples of Mini-lessons:
* "Just Right" books
* Locating Genres
* Abandoning books
* Selecting and returning books
* Caring for Reader's notebook
* Recording the difficulty level of your books
* Keeping a reading list
* Keeping a list of reading interests
* Learning the expectations for reading
* Using routines for independent reading
* Book report format
* Writing a letter in your notebook
* Using context clues
* Recognizing and using base words
* Recognizing and using prefixes/suffixes
* Recognizing different types of print
* Fluency
* Self-correcting
* Finding main ideas
* Identifying sequence of events
* Summarizing
* Creating sensory images from words
* Making and confirming predictions
* Using schema
* Locating evidence to support thinking
* Extending the meaning of the text
* Thinking beyond the text
* Skimming to pick up information
* Sharing throughts about the story
* Using an index
* Using a glossary
* Comparing texts
* Text-to-text connections
* Text-to-self connections
* Text-to-world connections
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Guided Reading/Independent Reading Time (45 minutes)
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* Read Independently/Practice skill from mini-lesson
* Meet with teacher for Guided Reading
- A small group of students read a book together with support from Mrs. Hillman or Mrs. Druvenga
* Write in Response
Notebooks - Students turn in response journals in the form of letters to Mrs. Hillman and she writes back.
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Sharing (5-10 minutes)
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Use the strategy from the mini-lesson and come back to share how you have applied it.
During this time the class might:
* Meet as a whole group to refer back to the mini-lesson and think further
* Meet together to think about and respond to questions such as: What did you learn about reading today? What did you
learn about yourself as a reader?
* Meet in small groups to have a quick chat about how the reading is going
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