The Reading Workshop: !Instructional Practices to Help Students

Become Strategic, Engaged Learners and Critical Thinkers

Sharon Taberski staberski@mac.comDe Mots et de Craie Conference Sherbrooke, QuebecMay 15, 2014

Strategy instruction has quite often been over done

and misapplied. We teach and reteach the same six

to eight metacognitive strategies throughout the

elementary grades, and yet we know deep down

that students aren’t using them at all! What to do?

Instead of focusing instruction on the strategies,

per se, we must redirect our attention to teaching

students to become strategic, critical thinkers

whose main focus is enjoying and comprehending

the text they’ve set out to read. That said, our

reading workshop brims with opportunities to

engage and empower students to acquire, create,

connect and understand information. During this

session we will examine ways to move ownership of

reading back to the student where it belongs.!

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What the Reading Workshop Isand Why It Works

TextReading Workshop

Mini-LessonConferences

Small Group Reading

Independent Reading Share Time

20-Minute Read-Aloud or Shared Reading !Prior to the Start of the Workshop

60-Minute Reading Workshop

Mini-Lesson (5-10 minutes)

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Conferences, Small Group Reading!and!

Independent Reading!(45 minutes)!

Reading Share (5-10 Minutes)

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Assessment Notebook

Response Notebook

Strategy sheets

Weekly Reading Log

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