Minilessons contain four component parts:. Students should have 35—45 minutes to work independently each day while the teacher confers and leads small groups. As students work, they will draw on a repertoire of strategies, developed across the days of the unit and across other units, too.
While students work independently, the teacher cirulates among them, observing their progress, conferring with individuals, and leading small group work. While students work independently, the teacher moves around the classroom, trying to touch base with and respond to as many students as possible.
Use these launching lessons to create a more organized and meaningful experience for you and your students. Because many of these lessons build the foundation of your workshop, not all address an academic standard. Before you get started, create a plan for organizing your workshop. We have an editable reading management binder you might like: Reading Binder.
First of all, it is important to know what reading workshop is. Below is a short description of what workshop looks like in many classrooms. Time frames can vary depending on your school and expectations. Each lesson will be provided by clicking on the lesson title. All of the printables to accompany the unit will be available below the unit outline.
Lesson 4: Buzzing About Books! In this story, a librarian in Iraq works to protect her books during war. Students create a list of ways to take care of the classroom books.
Lesson 6: Procedures for Exchanging Books for Independent Reading Time — Students need to be able to exchange the books in their baggies or baskets at least once a week in order to keep interest high and a more focused independent reading time. Here we present a lesson to show students how to pick which books they will exchange and a few different book exchange procedure ideas that have worked in our classrooms.
Individual conferences are powerful, targeted lessons that can make a real difference. Try conferencing with three children a day — more if you can manage it. Remember, conferences are short, generally lasting just a few minutes. Look at your anecdotal notes, running records, and other assessments to determine what each child needs to work on. Consider how your children are performing in all areas of language development reading, writing, listening with understanding, and speaking.
This information will also inform your conferences. The best way to monitor independent reading is to be proactive. Get on top of it before it becomes an issue.
Explicitly teach the children the expectations of independent reading in procedural lessons. Co-create anchor charts. Reread the anchor charts before independent reading time. Have the children practice independent reading while you are walking around the classroom giving positive feedback to children who are on task. Be sure that children have books that they can read and want to read in their book baggies.
Choice is critical to engagement. Have the children self-monitor. Post an independent reading rubric and devote a minute or two at share time for the children to reflect on their reading. If you find that a number of children are inattentive and not reading during independent reading time, go back and reteach the procedural lessons in whole group or in small groups with specific children who would benefit from them.
Do the children have to practice the skill or strategy I taught them in the mini-lesson? The skill or strategy taught during the mini-lesson is based on the needs of the class as a whole.
You selected the skill or strategy because you determined that it is what most of the children need. In the link component of the mini-lesson, encourage the children to use the skill or strategy and help them see how it will help them as readers. During share time, highlight those children who practiced the strategy.
There are likely to be some children who are already proficient in the skill or strategy or who are not quite ready for it that day. During reading time, children can be engaged in a number of activities depending on their age, grade level, stamina and the time of the year.
Activities such as partner reading and literature circles are not exactly silent. What we need to teach children is to maintain an acceptable level of noise. Have them demonstrate an acceptable level of noise and an unacceptable level of noise.
Include some language about acceptable levels of noise in your co-created anchor chart. Allocate some time during share time for the children to reflect upon and self-assess how they did with maintaining an appropriate noise level. Reading workshop never takes as long as it ultimately does during the first month or months of school. I add routines and extend time slowly. To get in as many reading practice minutes as possible, I break up independent reading time. I have kids start with just 5 minutes at the beginning of the year.
Then, we may do 10 minutes, a minilesson, and then 10 minutes of partner reading. We can do 10 more minutes later in the day. I include movement breaks between activities! YouTube and GoNoodle are awesome resources for this. Need some resources for reading workshop? References Taberski, S. Related Posts:. Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted.
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