Reading
We begin our reading unit with learning the rules and procedures of a Reader's Workshop. Students understand that during our allotted reading time we are silently reading and responding to text. We also learn how to keep track of our thoughts and ideas in our Reader's Response Notebooks by modeling several responses together and recording them on chart paper (which is displayed around the room).
Students are individually reading (Teacher's College Assessments) with the teacher so a proper reading level is determined. Teachers are checking fluency, comprehension, and retelling skills. From that determination, students will be placed in Guided Reading Groups according to their personal reading level. They will be choosing "Just Right" books to keep in their book totes, along with a book(s) selected by the teacher which matches their reading level.
In the remaining months of school we will be focusing on the following reading topics:
Nonfiction reading strategies, comprehension checks, main idea, beginning, middle and ending, informational texts and pulling information from this genre, folktales and fairytales and digger deeper within this genre, and will finish out the year with book clubs.
Students are individually reading (Teacher's College Assessments) with the teacher so a proper reading level is determined. Teachers are checking fluency, comprehension, and retelling skills. From that determination, students will be placed in Guided Reading Groups according to their personal reading level. They will be choosing "Just Right" books to keep in their book totes, along with a book(s) selected by the teacher which matches their reading level.
In the remaining months of school we will be focusing on the following reading topics:
Nonfiction reading strategies, comprehension checks, main idea, beginning, middle and ending, informational texts and pulling information from this genre, folktales and fairytales and digger deeper within this genre, and will finish out the year with book clubs.