Readers' Workshop

We started our Readers' Workshop this week. There are four components to each workshop session - mini-lesson (I teach), modeling of a skill (students and I share this), independent practice (by students), and share (by students). Students are so ready for this! Our lessons so far have been about how to choose books and "read" them by looking at each page. Students practiced both yesterday and today, reading independently for five minutes. They were quiet and focused! Five students were able to share today something about one of the books they "read". Students are sharing book baskets at this time as they get to know the classroom library. In the next few weeks students will be getting their own browsing boxes filled with books they want to have as well as some little readers that have some familiar words and predictable text. I will also be sharing with them that Kindergarteners read in 3 ways - by the pictures, by the words, and from memory. I will be conferencing (meeting) with individual students to start some beginners reading instruction in the next few weeks during the independent reading portion. More to come on this when we get started.