Reader's Workshop
Learning to Read - Falling in Love with Reading - Reading to Learn
"A workshop model is made up of a structure, routine, and ritual, which work together as a system."
Workshop Model
Phonemic Awareness
Heggerty
Phonemic Awareness Curriculum Provides Students with Consistent and Repeated Instruction.
Kilpatrick
A Comprehensive, Step-by-Step Program for Developing Phonemic Awareness and Fluent Word Recognition. Sample One Minute Drill
Read Aloud
Benefits of teachers reading aloud to their students includes:
improving fluency and comprehension
modelling fluency, comprehension, and decoding strategies
building a reading community
introducing and building new vocabulary
motivating readers to want to read
Freckle Juice
My Father’s Dragon
Charlotte’s Web
Toys Go Out
The Mouse & The Motorcycle
The Chicken Squad
The Year of Billy Miller
The One & Only Ivan
Stonefox
The Good Dog
A Boy Called Bat
Wayside School
Holes
Charlotte’s Web
Mr. Popper’s Penguin
The Chocolate Touch
Harvey N Trouble School
Amal Unbound
Front Desk
Song of a Whale
Hatchet
Barren Ground
Shakespeare for Kids
Dragon in a Bag
Me & Marvin Gardens
Judy Moody
Amal Unbound
Front Desk
Song of a Whale
Hatchet
Barren Ground
Wonder
We Are All Made of Molecules
The Jumbies
Prairie Lotus
The Bridge Home
The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Restart
Mini Lesson
Why do we read?
Where do we read?
What do we read?
What do readers do when they read?
What does reading look like?
What does reading sound like?
**Wise Reader Summary Sheet with mentor texts**
How do we build stamina?
How do we keep our mind in the book?
**Building stamina Summary Sheet with mentor texts**
Get my lips ready
Stretch the word out
Chunk the word (grapheme / syllable / base)
Blend the sounds together
Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
**Decoding Summary Sheet**
5 Finger Rule
I Pick
The Goldilocks Rule
**Just Right Books Summary Sheet with mentor texts**
Monitoring Meaning/Comprehension
Activating Background Knowledge / Schema
Making Connections
Asking Questions
Visualizing / Sensory Images
Inferring
Synthesizing
**Deeper Dive into the Comprehension Strategies**
Independent Reading
Conferring Sheet
Parent Conferring Sheet
Activities
Segmenting
Sounding and blending
High Frequency Words
Fluency Sentences
Reflection
Focus the lesson back to the goal
Students share how the mini lesson has helped them become wise readers
Students share strategies and thinking with peers regarding the goal of the lesson
Students can reflect and revisit prior learning while connecting it to the mini lesson
Students can check in on their personal goals
Opportunity for a quick assessment of where students are at in order to plan for the next lesson