First Grade Reading Workshop (Lucy Calkins)
Two years ago we enacted all four units of Lucy Calkin's Writers Workshop Units of Study. Last year we've adopting the Units of Study for Reader's Workshop that correlate with the writing units.
The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten. In the first unit, Building Good Reading Habits, I’ll reinforce children’s learning from kindergarten to help students become more strategic as readers. The second unit, Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction, taps into children’s natural curiosity as they explore nonfiction; I'll teach comprehension strategies, word solving, vocabulary, fluency, and author’s craft. The third unit, Readers Have Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension, focuses on the reading process to set children up to read increasingly complex texts. The last unit of first grade, Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons: A Study of Story Elements, spotlights story elements and the skills that are foundational to literal and inferential comprehension, including empathy, imagination, envisioning, prediction, character study, and interpretation.
In our first unit of reader's workshop students will be learning good habits that readers have. Some of the habits students will learn include:
*Take a sneak peak at the beginning.
*Check your sneak peak.
*Do SOMETHING at the end.
*Read MORE and MORE.
*Read MORE and MORE and keep track.
*Set goals.
*Scoop up words in phrases.
*Reread to see MORE.
Students will be using reading mats throughout the year. The habits where the reading mats come into play is "Read MORE and MORE and keep track" and "Set goals." They are the perfect way to work on this and give students a visual of how many books they have read and what their reading goals are during their independent or partner reading time.
Two years ago we enacted all four units of Lucy Calkin's Writers Workshop Units of Study. Last year we've adopting the Units of Study for Reader's Workshop that correlate with the writing units.
The start of first grade is a time for dusting off the skills and habits that children learned during kindergarten. In the first unit, Building Good Reading Habits, I’ll reinforce children’s learning from kindergarten to help students become more strategic as readers. The second unit, Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction, taps into children’s natural curiosity as they explore nonfiction; I'll teach comprehension strategies, word solving, vocabulary, fluency, and author’s craft. The third unit, Readers Have Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension, focuses on the reading process to set children up to read increasingly complex texts. The last unit of first grade, Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons: A Study of Story Elements, spotlights story elements and the skills that are foundational to literal and inferential comprehension, including empathy, imagination, envisioning, prediction, character study, and interpretation.
In our first unit of reader's workshop students will be learning good habits that readers have. Some of the habits students will learn include:
*Take a sneak peak at the beginning.
*Check your sneak peak.
*Do SOMETHING at the end.
*Read MORE and MORE.
*Read MORE and MORE and keep track.
*Set goals.
*Scoop up words in phrases.
*Reread to see MORE.
Students will be using reading mats throughout the year. The habits where the reading mats come into play is "Read MORE and MORE and keep track" and "Set goals." They are the perfect way to work on this and give students a visual of how many books they have read and what their reading goals are during their independent or partner reading time.