What is Reader's Workshop?
In our 2nd grade classroom, reading is taught through a reader's workshop model. For about an hour each day, students are actively engaged in authentic reading experiences based on each student's strengths and needs. Our students are truly growing their reading muscles! Here's the structure of our Reader's Workshop:
Mini lesson: In the mini lesson portion of Reader's Workshop, I explicitly teach the whole class a skill and/or strategy that will encourage students to become independent, lifelong readers.
Independent Reading: Students are engaged in self selected, just right reading in book nooks around our classroom. While reading, students are practicing the skills and strategies used in the mini lesson, as well as reading about, talking about, and responding to ideas all centered around literacy!
During Independent Reading: I confer with individual readers on their specific strengths and needs, instruct small strategy groups, and convene guided reading groups.
Share: Students gather in a circle and share what they worked on as a reader. This allows us to hear and learn from all of the experiences students have been forming inside our Reader's Workshop!
Mini lesson: In the mini lesson portion of Reader's Workshop, I explicitly teach the whole class a skill and/or strategy that will encourage students to become independent, lifelong readers.
Independent Reading: Students are engaged in self selected, just right reading in book nooks around our classroom. While reading, students are practicing the skills and strategies used in the mini lesson, as well as reading about, talking about, and responding to ideas all centered around literacy!
During Independent Reading: I confer with individual readers on their specific strengths and needs, instruct small strategy groups, and convene guided reading groups.
Share: Students gather in a circle and share what they worked on as a reader. This allows us to hear and learn from all of the experiences students have been forming inside our Reader's Workshop!