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Reader's Workshop Model in the Classroom (K-8)
Language and Literacy | K-8
To succeed in school (and beyond), students need to be able to read and comprehend a variety of texts across disciplines. Unfortunately, not all students have the basic skill sets and strategies they need to do so. If students struggle to adopt certain skills (i.e., making connections, asking questions, inferring, summarizing, and monitoring understanding), they will most likely struggle to understand, analyze, and interpret what they read. Reader’s workshop is an excellent model for engaging students in authentic reading experiences and helping them develop lifelong reading skills.
In this course, you will reflect on and evaluate your own instructional practices to determine how a reader’s workshop model might enhance your teaching strategies. You will explore the reader’s workshop framework as a way to target specific skills and strategies students need to develop as readers. In addition, you will examine the concerns surrounding reader’s workshop so that you can address the challenges and limitations it might present.
Using the techniques and tools from this course, you will be able to conduct a successful reader’s workshop and help your students grow into passionate and confident readers.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Ways to enhance student reading comprehension and engagement by using various components of the reader’s workshop model (i.e mini lesson, small group, share time)
- Strategies to enhance the reading comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary skills of all students
- Strategies for using the reader’s workshop model to assess student growth
- Access to lesson ideas and resources to help make reader’s workshop more culturally responsive
- Ways to develop and implement strategies to promote culturally responsive practices in reader’s workshop
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate the reader’s workshop model as a tool for closing reading achievement gaps.
- Examine the components of reader’s workshop that support effective reading instruction.
- Analyze strategies to enhance students’ reading and communication skills.
- Develop ideas to bring culturally responsive practices to reader’s workshop.
- Examine and differentiate between various ways that culture and bias affect learning, teaching, and communication in reader’s workshop.
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