Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Workshop Rules and Expectations Appropriate Workshop/Book Nook Voices Listening Skills

Choosing a Just Right book Choosing book nooks and book nook behavior Seeking help during book nook time Reading conferences -- the role of the teacher and the student Keeping and storing records Giving Book talks Taking care of books and the classroom library Reading with a partner or small group Discussion with a partner or small group Responding to the text journal entries Abandoning a book Take-home books, homework journals, and homework assignments Respecting the Reading Workshop and other readers

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Reading Strategies
Looking ahead strategies

previewing a book setting a purpose for reading using background knowledge and personal experience Fix-Up Strategies

Re-reading to clarify

Skipping ahead

using context and syntax

Identifying confusing parts Identifying confusing vocabulary Making Connections

text to self

text to text

text to world

Questioning

Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Visualizing

Making Inferences

Summarizing

Looking back - reflecting Determining important ideas and details self-monitoring comprehension Making, evaluating and adjusting predictions Pausing to recall details

Drawing conclusions Finding evidence to support thinking Thinking aloud

Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Decoding Skills Using sound-letter relationships Relating new vocabulary to known words Using meaning to understand new words Using structure to understand new words Finding chunks in words Finding words within words Using a word that makes sense Identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds Using base words

Using affixes

Using syllables

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Reading Skills
Identifying the main idea Identifying supporting details Retelling a story

Sequencing Determining cause and effect relationships Comparing and contrasting books Comparing and contrasting authors Comparing and contrasting characters Comparing and contrasting setting Comparing and contrasting relationships Comparing and contrasting events Recognizing and using text format and organization Taking Notes Using pictures, diagrams, and charts Paraphrasing information found in non-fiction material

Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Locating information to answer questions Adjusting Reading Rate Holding onto a story for a long amount amount of time Oral reading: fluency, expression and intonation Reading Dialogue

Discussing with peers Skimming and scanning a text Writing a personal response to a text Responding to a given prompt Using sticky notes to assist in journal response

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Literary Elements
Author's choice of a book title Characters Relating characters to the setting Character's development and change over time Determining main characters and secondary characters Setting

Time and place Importance of setting in a story Theme of the book

Mood or tone Passage of time in the book Change over time

Effect on the setting

Effect on the characters

Identifying story language

Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Story patterns Identifying the beginning, middle, and ending Identifying the problem, central idea, events, and resolution Identifying the story shape: linear, circular Use of story maps or graphic organizers Recognizing the lead

Recognizing the conclusion Function and terminology of parts of the book The difference in fiction versus nonfiction Different role of illustrations in fiction vs. non-fiction Narration of the story/point of view--how it affects reader Genre Identification/ Characteristics of category Author's purpose

Use of dialogue Author and/or illustrator studies

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Literary Techniques
Character description

Setting description

Using details Use of language to generate images Voice Lead--various ways to begin a text Endings -- various ways to end a text Organization of work

Time transitions

Passage of time Author's perspective/point of view Flashback

Foreshadowing Rhyme, Rhythm, and repetition Exact nouns and verbs

Reader's Workshop Mini-Lessons Sensory images

Figurative Language

Idioms

Similes

Metaphors

Personification

Exaggeration

Text format

Title

Focus

Conflict

People against people

People agains nature

People against themselves

Irony

Symbolism