Reading Workshop
While children are engaged in their independent work (Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work Work and Work on Writing) I work with small groups reading a text together (guided reading) or on word work activities. I also meet with individual students each day to confer about their reading or practice other needed skills. Throughout the workshop, children move from their literacy choice to brief whole group lessons to break up the session. At the end of Reading Workshop we gather once again to share our new learning.
The CAFÉ Menu for Reading Strategies
The “CAFÉ Menu” is a collection of highly effective reading strategies that the students will be taught to use, to help them become better readers. They are organized into four goals:
• C is for Comprehension: “I understand what I read.”
• A is for Accuracy: “I can read the words.”
• F is for Fluency: “I can read smoothly, with expression.”
• É is for Expanding Vocabulary: “I know, find, and use interesting words.”
FUNdations!
Fundations is our multi-sensory, structured language program that helps create an understanding of phonics, high frequency words, vocabulary, handwriting, and spelling.
