Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching
children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so
they fall in love with reading. Many teachers find the independent
reading workshop to be the component of reading instruction that
meets this challenge because it makes it possible to teach the
reading skills and strategies children need and guides them toward
independence, intention, and joy as readers.
In "Growing Readers," Kathy Collins helps teachers plan for
independent reading workshops in their own classrooms. She
describes the structure of the independent reading workshop and
other components of a balanced literacy program that work together
to ensure young students grow into strong, well-rounded readers.
Kathy outlines a sequence of possible units of study for a yearlong
curriculum. Chapters are devoted to the individual units of study
and include a sample curriculum as well as examples of mini-lessons
and reading conferences. There are also four "Getting Ready"
sections that suggest some behind-the-scenes work teachers can do
to prepare for the units. Topics explored in these units include:
print and comprehension strategies;reading in genres such as poetry
and nonfiction;connecting in-school reading and out-of-school
reading;developing the strategies and habits of lifelong
readers.
A series of planning sheets and management tips are presented
throughout to help ensure smooth implementation.
We want our students to learn to read, and we want them to love
to read. To do this we need to lay a foundation on which children
build rich and purposeful reading lives that extend beyond the
school day. The ideas found in "Growing Readers" create thekind of
primary classrooms where that happens.
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