Readers’ Workshop
“The Look”

Back to Allison Demas's Understanding "The Look" of the Readers' Workshop

Mini-lesson		Shared Reading or Read Aloud
		Big Book, Poem, Work on Overhead (enlarged and appropriate)
Guided & Independent Reading		Conference and Running Record
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Possible Mini-Lessons:
Topics for mini-lessons can be theme related (science/social studies), folk tales, author studies…

Routines: Working together in a group Book Talk Picking “just right” books Reading for an extended period of time Transitions Sharing (how to)	Word Attack Strategies: “Skip and Go Back” chunking looking for smaller words in the larger words prefixes/suffixes picture cues (Does it look right & sound right?)
Comprehension: Character traits Prediction Sequencing (BME= beginning, middle, end) story web (setting, problem, solution) cause & effect inferencing main idea	Phonics: Spelling Patterns Blends/digraphs Vowel pairs Sound explorations Initial consonant sounds