Sharing

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Sharing
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Sharing

• For the last 15 Minutes of class gather class to
  discuss the book they have finished reading.
• Discuss why they liked the book.
• Students may read a insertion aloud or pass book
  around the class.
• Sharing is important because it helps students
  form a community to value and celebrate each
  others accomplishments.

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Teaching Mini-lessons
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Mini-lesson

• Takes about 10 to 20 minutes to teach a mini
  lesson.
• Brief lessons on reading workshop procedures and
  reading strategies and skill.
• Topics for mini-lessons.
• Draw from students observed needs
• Comments students make during conferences
• Mini-lessons are sometimes taught to the whole
  class or to small groups

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Possible Mini-lesson Topics-Reading Workshop-

• Choose a book
• Abandon a book
• Listen to book read aloud
• Read independently
• Decode unfamiliar words

• Respond in reading logs
• Use double-entry journals
• Give a book talk
• Conference

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Possible Mini-lesson Topics-Writing Workshop

• Choose a topic
• Cluster ideas
• Make a table of contents
• Proofread
• Use the dictionary
• Participate in writing groups

• Conference with the teacher
• Write an All about the Author page
• Make hardcover book
• Share Published writing
• Use authors chair

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Reading Aloud to Students
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What to Read

• Choose high quality literature
• Choose books that students may not be able to
  read themselves
• Award winning books
• A Book that you feel every student should be
  exposed to
• Books that relate to a social studies or science
  theme

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After Reading

• Students participate in grand conversation
• Talk about book
• Share reading experience
• IMPORTANT
• Students listen to a story read aloud and
  respond to the story as a community of learners,
  not as individuals.

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Variations of Reading Workshops
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First Variation

• Special themed text set as part of social studies
  or science
• Literature-related text
• collection written by certain author
• representing one genre
• folktales, science fiction

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Second Variation

• Book Clubs (Literature Study Groups)
• Students divide into small reading groups
• each groups reads a different book
• teacher gives a book talk about each book
• students sign up for book
• students need time to preview books
• Students dont always get their first choice

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• Students use workshop time to read book
• write in logs
• participate in grand conversation
• During group time teacher reads along with
  students
• Students read from their logs
• Teacher offers insight about book to the students
• Identifies elements of story structure