Reading Workshop
Unit 1: We Are Readers
Bend I: Launching with Learn-About The World Books
Bend II: Old Favorite Storybooks
Looking Closely at Favorite Storybooks
Bend 1: What do good readers do? Thinking, remembering, and practicing good reading habits
Bend 2: Adding labels to favorite storybooks: How do readers remember what each page says?
Bend 3: Making the story FUN! Acting out the stories with puppets and character voices
Unit 2: Super Powers: Reading with Print Strategies and Sight Word Power
Bend 1: Using Super Powers to Look and Point, then Read EVERYTHING
Bend 2: Taking on Even the Hardest Words
Bend 3: Bringing Books to Life
Unit 3: Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles.
Bend 1: Tackling More Challenging Books
Bend 2: Zooming In on Letters and Sounds
Bend 3: Graduation: Becoming Stronger Readers
Unit 4: Becoming Avid Readers
Bend 1: Becoming an Avid Reader
Bend 2: Learning from All-About Books (nonfiction)
Bend 3: Falling in Love with Poetry
Good Reading Habits:
Good readers....
Read by themselves and with others
Read the pages in order
Reread to say more.
Connect the pages of a book using transition words (and, then)
Use the title to read familiar words
Use the pictures to make meaning
Add their thinking to pages in a book
