Literacy Workshop

 Literacy Workshop

During Literacy Workshop children are engaged in a variety of activities and lessons that strengthen their literacy skills.  Each day the activities include

Read to Self (reading the pictures, the words or retelling the story to yourself)

Read to Somebody (also called buddy reading, one student reads a section and then the partner will 'check for understanding' and retell what they heard, students will switch jobs and eventually help coach each other when needed decoding)

Listen to Reading ( following along with a recording via headphones and a copy of the book, finger pointing and corresponding the written text to the spoken words)

Word Work ( is a variety of things including phonics and spelling activities or games)

Writing (in response to reading or learning to retell a story, first through pictures and labels and then through words, learning how to self edit and checking our CHOPS: Capitalization, Handwriting, reading our writing Outloud, Punctuation and Spelling our word wall words correctly,  we work to have our stories include not only what happened but to also include our feelings)

While children are engaged in their independent work, I work with reading groups on a reading strategy lesson with an instructional leveled text.  I meet with all my reading groups each day we do literacy rotations.  

In addition to our literacy rotation stations we also are implementing the FUNdations program which is focused on 

• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics/ word study
• High frequency word study
• Reading fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension strategies 
• Handwriting
• Spelling

This will be a whole class lesson daily which is a systematic approach to laying the groundwork of foundational reading skills.

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.”