Readers+Workshop

Readers Workshop We will be working on comprehension, accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary. Our workshop will be composed of guided reading, whole group and small group lessons, partner reading, reading and responding, individual reading, guided reading and conferneces between teacher and students. We are working finishing up our unit about how to be true to you! This week we have read a book called Amazing Grace! This is one of my personal favorites. The theme is great at this time of year, to always believe in yourself. Next week we will be reading stories about community and how important it is to have a sense of community and how to be an active part in your community. As the year winds down you may find your child isn't coming home with a book quite so often. We are still condusting one on one conferencing and small groups in class but will be limiting the amount of books coming home. Please remember our focus is on reading startegy not reading level. Your child may be bring home a book where they can read all of the words, but we may be practicing fluency or a comprehension strategy. On the other hand your child may be decoding two or three words on each page and the strategy they are working on may be sounding out and blending sounds together. Your child will come home with a task to do along with their book. Typically they will have post-it notes with then and when they are working on their strategy they will write down the word or sentence where they practiced the strategy and when I meet with them next they can open right to where they used the strategy.

I hope that you enjoyed reading with your child this week. I will try to write down the specific strategy that your child is working with on the reading log. Typically your child will be working on a strategy for a few weeks until they have shown the need to move on. You may also see a response sheet come home with the book in their bag. Please remember that when a book comes home it is to be returned the next day (even if you didn't read it at home the night before) Your child will be using that book in the next days Readers Workshop.