I feel like the biggest importance is laid on guided reading groups and independent reading time. While read alouds and shared reading are still very important, the first two should take up more minutes of your day.
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Lyndi Pilch
4/29/2013 07:01:23 am
There is a huge focus on the independent reading time--different than what we've gotten used to with the Daily 5 structure. I like the idea of this--sometimes our reading block with the Daily 5 seems to rushed, but I worry about management. 30 minutes is a long time, even after we've been in school for several months!
The guided reading structure seems as though is may look different, as well. The overview suggested short meeting times--no longer than 10 minutes, and I'm currently meeting with each guided reading group for 15-20! I think it will be very interesting to see how those adjustments play out.
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Jaime Roweton
4/30/2013 01:27:49 pm
I would be interested in hearing how your Daily 5 looks now. Do you think it would be acceptable to split the reading time (30 minutes) into blocks of 15 so it fits better with Daily 5? The whole reading workshop is only supposed to last 45-50 minutes by February with 30 minutes allotted for reading. In short, do you feel it is okay to separate that 30 minutes into chunks.
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Adrian Laflen
4/29/2013 07:20:04 am
I am excited to think about how guided reading in my room will look different next year. My groups will be no more than 10 minutes, and once the group is done and sent to read to self or to a partner I will be moving to conference with individual students. My guided reading groups will be more focused on just the reading component. My word work groups need to be separate and students will be grouped by their area of need. I want to change my classroom library to better support the levels my students need to be reading at. My book bags need to have any where from 12-15 books in them, which is much more than they currently have now.
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Jill Brock
4/29/2013 07:24:54 am
I like that the reading benchmarks for each month are at the top of each unit to help keep the class on track in order to have them meet the level E/F expectations by the end of the year. It looks like the structure of guided reading lessons seems to be less scripted and more based on more flexible groups as opposed to ability grouping. I am excited to see how my reading workshop will look next year.
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Jaime Roweton
4/30/2013 12:24:52 am
The use of shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading ensures that we are constantly reviewing skills and strategies even if they are not the focus of the overall reading lesson.
The workshop structure will be very important to have established as your year will require students to be independent learners so you have the ability to meet with more small groups.
The call for more independent reading and partner reading will be interesting to see how everyone is able to fit these times into their daily schedules.
Like the girls said above, Lucy seems to put a lot of emphasis on independent and partner reading. We tend to do Read to Someone with our older reading buddies, because our kindergarteners seem to quickly get off task while "reading" to a buddy. If we decide to go this route, a lot of time will need to be spent to train the students how to read to a buddy.
I'm replying to myself :) . It seems that we will all be doing the same types of things we're doing already (reading aloud, shared reading, word work, writing, etc. I am excited to see how it will all fit together. This is a monumental task!!!!!