Launching+Reading+Workshop

First students learn about the 4 parts of Reading Workshop:

Whole Class Read Aloud, Mini-Lesson, Self-Selected Independent Reading, and Response to Reading. This helps them understand that reading workshop follows the same predictable structure every day.

Students are then introduced to the concept of Book Nooks. Readers began trying out different places in the room in hopes of discovering the "best place" to read.

Students select new books from the class library and learn how to record books in their reading notebooks.

During a mini-lesson on choosing "Just Right" books, we learn how to select a "just right" book using the Five Finger Rule to help select appropriate books.

After spending a week in the reading workshop, students will be familiar with the routine and ready to make rules. The class will create a list of rules that all readers should follow in order to make workshop time most beneficial and enjoyable for all readers.

EXAMPLES OF SOME RULES FOR READING WORKSHOP

1. You must read a book. Magazines and newspapers don’t help develop fluency, and more

 importantly, will not help you discover who you are as a reader.

2. Don’t read a book you don’t like. Don’t waste time!

3. If you don’t like your book, find another.

4. It’s more than all right to reread a book that you love. It’s something good readers do all the time.

5. It’s okay to skim or skip parts of a book if you get bored or stuck.

6. Record the title of every book you read or abandon. Record it’s genre, title, author, date you

 started reading, and your rating (1-10).

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">7. Understand that reading is thinking. Try to do nothing to distract others who are trying to read.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">8. Take care of our books!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">9. Read the whole time.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">10. Read as much as you can.

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