Reader's Workshop Activities

Here is a look at some of our Reader's Workshop activities.  We spend approximately one hour every day rotating through the different stations on top of the other literacy based instruction that occurs.  Every station activity is literacy based, differentiated, and many allow for student choice.  

During this time, I meet with students, individually and in groups.  We read and discuss books at your child's instructional reading level.  Starr guides a group through phonics based activities. She also works with students on handwriting and responding to text in a reading journal.  At Word Work, students are able to choose from a variety of manipulatives to build words.  Work on Writing allows students time to execute the skills they've acquired through our Writer's Workshop discussions.  Listen to Reading provides students with a model of what good readers sound like.  It also gives them the opportunity to choose books that interest them, learn something specific about that content area, and practice comprehension skills.  Read to Self and Read to Someone are activities that happen throughout the day.  Read to Self is a time where students are able to whisper read a book that is a good fit.  Read to Someone allows students to read and discuss a good fit book with a partner.