Sunday, November 13, 2016
Reading Workshops
I am placed in a first grade classroom. So far I have been able to do two read aloud books and have been able to do a few guided reading lessons! One of my favorite things that we do is something that the kids call readers workshops. Basically they rotate around the room and do stations. Depending on how many adults are in the room at the time they usually have one adult per station and three to five kids per station. The groups are made based on the students reading level. I like doing these stations because it allows us to work with the kids more on a one on one stand point. The students are also very good at helping out their peers in their groups if the adult cannot get to them right away. Readers workshops are defiantly something that I will use in my own classroom.
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We do this as well in my field experience classroom. One thing I have noticed is we are only able to do four stations and two do not have an adult guiding the station. I like how you explained how there is an adult with each station. It sounds like that works well with keeping the students focused on their reading. I am happy to hear this is being used in other first grade classrooms too!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! I think that this is a great way to have students participate in reading and working with their peers. In my classroom, we have done a lot of read to self, but the station of where they get to read changes everyday. I try to read with different students each day during these times and collect data on how the student reads. This data will come in handy so the next time I read with each student, I can tell how their reading has progressed from our last reading session.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see what my students would do during a readers workshop! This could be a great learning opportunity for me and for the students.