Each Reading Workshop session will begin with a mini lesson that lasts approximately 10-15 minutes. During each mini lesson, I will introduce a specific concept, also known as the teaching point. Most often the teaching point will focus on a reading strategy or skill. I will explicitly model or demonstrate the skill for the students.
This will jumpstart our time into 20-20-20. Since this is a sixty minute block the class is divided into three groups which will go to three different stations.
Station 1: Purposeful Practice: This is a twenty minute section where students get an opportunity to apply the mini-lesson concept within an individual, pair or group context.
Station 2: 20 Minute NIB: Nose in Book
During this twenty minute section, students are engaged in self-selected texts at their independent level. Students are reading in book nooks around the room while the teacher holds individual reading conferences or meets with small groups of students for guided reading, strategy lessons, or novel study groups.
20 Station 3: Minute: Novel Study Groups
This twenty minute section is dedicated to rotating novel study groups based on student intrest, ability, and theme. There will be times within the year as the novel study groups finish their books that the class as a whole will examine a novel. Group members will be able to explore the text in depth, build leadership skills, and collaborate on end of novel study book projects. During this time students might:
-Meet as a whole group to refer back to the mini-lesson and think further.
-Meet together to think about and respond to questions such as: What did you learn about reading today? What did you learn about yourself as a reader?
-Meet with reading partners to have a quick chat about how the reading is going.
