Launching Reader's Workshop

Throughout Reader's Workshop in the past few weeks, students practiced expanding their reading selection by choosing a ‘just right’ book. We read the mentor text Goldi Socks and the Three Libearians, and discussed the “five finger rule”.

I have also expanded my reading expectations for students with book bins. Students choose books from the classroom library to read independently. Each day, the students will participate in a mini-lesson with the class, read independently, or conference with me in a small guided reading group. Each student is responsible for responding to our focus lesson and sharing their thinking with the group when we 'turn and talk'.