Reading Workshop
Ways We Choose Books:
- authors we know and like
- interesting title
- a “just right” book using the five finger rule (not too easy/ not too challenging)
- another book in a series
- an award-winning book
- a recommendation from a friend or teacher
- love of a genre
- try the beginning
- heard it read aloud
- reread a book you have already read
- sequel to a book you enjoyed
Purposes for Reading:
- to solve a problem
- to learn something new
- for enjoyment
- to share with friends and family
- to make something
- to explore new places
I Get Better at Reading By:
- reading every day
- reading a variety of genres
- writing about what I read
- thinking while I am reading
- thinking carefully about what I have read
- using reading strategies to figure out unknown words
- using reading strategies when I don’t understand
- reading a just-right book to practice reading and to stretch myself as a reader
- setting reading goals
- self-assessing my progress towards that goal
- listening to my reading to monitor fluency
- talking about what I read with others
Strategies Good Readers Use to Solve Word Problems:
- match the sounds of the letters in the word to the word they are reading
- notice whether the word makes sense
- reread
- skip the word and read ahead then go back to say the word
- look at the illustration for clues
- look for a little word in the unknown word
- look for part of the word you know
- ask if this looks like another word you know
- look for prefixes and suffixes
Reading Multi-Syllable Words:
- look for a prefix at the beginning of the word
- look for a suffix at the end of the word
- look at the middle of the word
- say the parts slowly
- blend the parts together as you say them quickly
- ask if the word sounds like a real word
Asking Questions:
- my questions helped me think about what was happening in the story
- my questions made me think about what else might happen
- my questions helped me think about what some of the words meant
- I listened to the story because I wanted to find out if my question was answered
- my questions made me want to go find out other things about this topic
- my questions helped me think how the character was feeling
Reading is Thinking!!!
- paint a picture in your mind
- ask yourself questions
- make predictions
- summarize in your head
- make conections
o text-to-text
o text-to-self
o text-to-world
- notice an author’s craft or writing style