Goals and Objectives:

     1)  Students will be able to choose books that they want to read, books they believe they will enjoy reading.

     2)  Students will develop and refine their own authentic reading life, including reading levels, reading interests,

          and reading patterns.

     3)  Students will practice research based reading strategies to increase reading comprehension in a wide variety

          of genres and levels.

     4)  Students will challenge themselves to increase volume, stamina, and fluency in independent reading. 

Description:

The reader's workshop encourages students to identify and choose books they will enjoy reading.  So many young

students lose their joy and passion for reading during middle school.  Students are swamped with additional

homework from teachers and they increase commitment to select extracurricular activities.  They feel like they're

jammed with so may things to do and indpeendnet reading feels only like so much busy work. 

We hope that the reader's workshop can continue to encourage students to develop a real independent reading life.

Independent reading is so important for so many reasons, and it's so important that we don't lose our students'

passion for reading. 

The reading workshop is organized around independent book choice and specific reading strategies. Reading

strategies help students to understand the basic text and uncover meaning in increasingly challenging texts.

Sample Minilessons:

     Reading Strategies

     Predict

     Infer

     Question

     Monitor

     Visualize

     Connect

     Analyze

     Theme

     Symbol

     Reading Comprehension

     Process Reading

     Reading Traits

     Reading Fluency

     Reading: Tone

     Mind Voice: The reading voices in your head!

     Tone: What we already know!

     Tone: Our Opinion / Their Tone

     Character Voices

     Critical Theory