Reader's Workshop
Mini-Lesson 10-15 minutes
Guided Reading and Daily 5 (Independent Practice): 35-45 minutes
* Read to Self
* Read to someone
* Work on Writing
* Listen to Reading
* Work on Words
Share Time 5 minutes
Mini-Lesson: A mini-lesson is a focus lesson that is about 10-15 minutes and may be a procedural, literal/craft, or comprehension strategy/skill lesson.
Independent Practice/Daily 5:
The Daily 5 is the name of the management tool used to make 5 small groups of students, while at the same time practicing 5 essential aspects of reading: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Listening to Reading, and Work on Writing/Response to Literature. While the teacher meets with a small group or is conferring, the remaining students in the class are reading in one of these 5 ways. This time is also important because of its differentiation. Each student has a browsing box containing books based on their interests, and best of all, their independent and instructional reading levels. In their browsing box, each child has important resources such as bookmarks, whisper phones, their individualized heart word list, and a Daily 5 Schedule, that will help them read independently. With their Daily 5 schedule, your child will be able to move through the Daily 5 at their own rate. Individualized heart word lists will also help differentiate your child's word work and will help your child become a stronger reader and writer.
Guided Reading: The teacher works with a small group of students who need similar reading instruction. Each student has their own text and the teacher works with the group to target a specific reading strategy or skill.
Conferring: Conferring with students is a powerful tool for finding out what students are thinking as well as the strategies they are employing. Here are some benefits of conferring:
·Develop a close relationship with each student
·Take opportunities for affirming
·Check for understanding
·Evaluate student growth
·Hear students read orally
·Gather ideas for mini-lessons
·Take advantage of teachable moments
Each conference is about 5-10 minutes and I use a conferring notebook to record all of my conferences with my students. This notebook has a tab for each student which contains a goal, dates of meetings, my observations, and my teaching points for that meeting.
Mini-Lesson 10-15 minutes
Guided Reading and Daily 5 (Independent Practice): 35-45 minutes
* Read to Self
* Read to someone
* Work on Writing
* Listen to Reading
* Work on Words
Share Time 5 minutes
Mini-Lesson: A mini-lesson is a focus lesson that is about 10-15 minutes and may be a procedural, literal/craft, or comprehension strategy/skill lesson.
Independent Practice/Daily 5:
The Daily 5 is the name of the management tool used to make 5 small groups of students, while at the same time practicing 5 essential aspects of reading: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Listening to Reading, and Work on Writing/Response to Literature. While the teacher meets with a small group or is conferring, the remaining students in the class are reading in one of these 5 ways. This time is also important because of its differentiation. Each student has a browsing box containing books based on their interests, and best of all, their independent and instructional reading levels. In their browsing box, each child has important resources such as bookmarks, whisper phones, their individualized heart word list, and a Daily 5 Schedule, that will help them read independently. With their Daily 5 schedule, your child will be able to move through the Daily 5 at their own rate. Individualized heart word lists will also help differentiate your child's word work and will help your child become a stronger reader and writer.
Guided Reading: The teacher works with a small group of students who need similar reading instruction. Each student has their own text and the teacher works with the group to target a specific reading strategy or skill.
Conferring: Conferring with students is a powerful tool for finding out what students are thinking as well as the strategies they are employing. Here are some benefits of conferring:
·Develop a close relationship with each student
·Take opportunities for affirming
·Check for understanding
·Evaluate student growth
·Hear students read orally
·Gather ideas for mini-lessons
·Take advantage of teachable moments
Each conference is about 5-10 minutes and I use a conferring notebook to record all of my conferences with my students. This notebook has a tab for each student which contains a goal, dates of meetings, my observations, and my teaching points for that meeting.