Chapter%209%20Reading%20and%20Writing%20Workshop

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Chapter 9Reading and Writing Workshop

• Jennifer Sabine
• Block 26
• Dr. Mi

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Why use reading and writing workshop?

• -students select interesting material
• -fluent readers
• -develop lifelong reading habits
• -think of themselves as lifelong readers

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Benefits of reading workshop

• Become a community learner
• understand themselves and peers
• gain confidence
• more enthusiastic about reading

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Reading

• Students need to spend several minutes, several
  times a day.
• Generally, primary students read 7-8 minutes a
  day in a classroom.
• Middle-grade read approx. 15 min.
• 97 of eighth graders read no pleasure books at
  all.

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The Heart of a Reading Workshop

• Students choose their own books and take
  ownership of the reading
• Enjoyment of reading comes from reading
  interesting material
• Read and respond
• Teachers model and communicate the importance of
  reading
• Teachers also conference with students about the
  books they are reading
• Have students read aloud

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Types of Books

• Story books
• informational books
• biographical books
• Books of poetry
• Magazines

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Appropriate books for primarygrades

• Teachers suggest
• wordless picture books
• alphabet books
• number books
• pattern and predictable books
• books the teacher has read aloud several times

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Teachers must

• Introduce students to books in the classroom
  library
• Use book talk (this helps when previewing a book)
• teachers tell students a little about the book
• show the cover
• read the first paragraph or two

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Responding

• Journals allow students to write their initial
  responses to the books they are reading.
• Journals allow for ongoing written conversation
  between the teacher and the individual students
• Responses demonstrate students reading
  strategies and offers insights to their thinking
  about literature.

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Teacher responses encourage students

• 1. Monitoring understanding
• 2. Making inferences
• 3. Making, validating, or invalidating
  predictions
• 4. Expressing wonder or confusion
• 5. Character interaction

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• 6. Character assessment
• 7. Story involvement
• 8. Literary criticism

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What do those categories mean?

• The first four categories are meaning making
• The next three focus on the characters and plot
• The last category represents literacy evaluation

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Bibliography

• Tompkins, G. E. (1997). Literacy for the 21st
  Century. New Jersey, Prentice - Hall, Inc.