Genesis: We are doing great work with the reading workshop in class!  The reading workshop classroom environment is comprised of a poem reading, status-of-the-class report, independent reading with teacher conferences, and community share.  This week’s minilessons included Reading Territories, which culminated in students developing their own lists for reading and “someday” lists; book talks, where students listened to example book talks that emphasized critical reading of a text using read-aloud strategies; and student expectations for teacher conferencing.  Students should bring an independent book to class daily, and read for at least thirty minutes outside of school each day.

Legacy/Explorers: We are doing great work with the reading workshop in class!  The reading workshop classroom environment is comprised of a poem reading, status-of-the-class report, independent reading with teacher conferences, and community share.  This week’s minilessons included Reading Territories, which culminated in students developing their own lists for reading and “someday” lists; book talks, where students listened to an example book talk that emphasized critical reading of a text using read-aloud strategies; and student expectations for teacher conferencing.  Students should bring an independent book to class daily, and read for at least thirty minutes outside of school each day.  In writing workshop, students developed their nonfiction issue-problem Summary Notes/projects or social studies essays in class.  They learned an expanded construct for Paul’s reasoning model, which had been previously introduced in class, and used the model to think through a group-selected issue.