Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Workshop Rules and Expectations Appropriate Workshop/Book Nook Voices Listening Skills
Choosing a Just Right book Choosing book nooks and book nook behavior Seeking help during book nook time Reading conferences -- the role of the teacher and the student Keeping and storing records Giving Book talks Taking care of books and the classroom library Reading with a partner or small group Discussion with a partner or small group Responding to the text journal entries Abandoning a book Take-home books, homework journals, and homework assignments Respecting the Reading Workshop and other readers
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons
Reading Strategies
Looking ahead strategies
previewing a book setting a purpose for reading using background knowledge and personal experience Fix-Up Strategies
Re-reading to clarify
Skipping ahead
using context and syntax
Identifying confusing parts Identifying confusing vocabulary Making Connections
text to self
text to text
text to world
Questioning
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Visualizing
Making Inferences
Summarizing
Looking back - reflecting Determining important ideas and details self-monitoring comprehension Making, evaluating and adjusting predictions Pausing to recall details
Drawing conclusions Finding evidence to support thinking Thinking aloud
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Decoding Skills Using sound-letter relationships Relating new vocabulary to known words Using meaning to understand new words Using structure to understand new words Finding chunks in words Finding words within words Using a word that makes sense Identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds Using base words
Using affixes
Using syllables
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons
Reading Skills
Identifying the main idea Identifying supporting details Retelling a story
Sequencing Determining cause and effect relationships Comparing and contrasting books Comparing and contrasting authors Comparing and contrasting characters Comparing and contrasting setting Comparing and contrasting relationships Comparing and contrasting events Recognizing and using text format and organization Taking Notes Using pictures, diagrams, and charts Paraphrasing information found in non-fiction material
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Locating information to answer questions Adjusting Reading Rate Holding onto a story for a long amount amount of time Oral reading: fluency, expression and intonation Reading Dialogue
Discussing with peers Skimming and scanning a text Writing a personal response to a text Responding to a given prompt Using sticky notes to assist in journal response
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons
Literary Elements
Author's choice of a book title Characters Relating characters to the setting Character's development and change over time Determining main characters and secondary characters Setting
Time and place Importance of setting in a story Theme of the book
Mood or tone Passage of time in the book Change over time
Effect on the setting
Effect on the characters
Identifying story language
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Story patterns Identifying the beginning, middle, and ending Identifying the problem, central idea, events, and resolution Identifying the story shape: linear, circular Use of story maps or graphic organizers Recognizing the lead
Recognizing the conclusion Function and terminology of parts of the book The difference in fiction versus nonfiction Different role of illustrations in fiction vs. non-fiction Narration of the story/point of view--how it affects reader Genre Identification/ Characteristics of category Author's purpose
Use of dialogue Author and/or illustrator studies
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons
Literary Techniques
Character description
Setting description
Using details Use of language to generate images Voice Lead--various ways to begin a text Endings -- various ways to end a text Organization of work
Time transitions
Passage of time Author's perspective/point of view Flashback
Foreshadowing Rhyme, Rhythm, and repetition Exact nouns and verbs
Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Sensory images
Figurative Language
Idioms
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Exaggeration
Text format
Title
Focus
Conflict
People against people
People agains nature
People against themselves
Irony
Symbolism
