Best Practices: Reading workshop at VCES



The teacher teaches a 10-15 minute mini-lesson on a specific concept or skill, then students spend the majority of their time engaged in authentic experiences with reading and writing. The lessons they learn are designed to be transferable from book to book and writing experience to writing experience, thus impressing upon them that they are life long readers and authors.
Word work, read alouds, and shared reading are used on a daily basis to support reading and writing workshops.
Third grade read aloud wall:
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Second grade read aloud wall and writing samples:
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There are no textbooks in reading workshop, and students select books that interest them.