• Welcome to Reader's Workshop
    Unit 1:
    Launching the Reader's Workshop
     
     Welcome to Kindergarten Reader's Workshop! We are excited to partner with you in building your child's reading life at home and at school. The skills and strategies taught throughout the unit are introduced gradually and will be developed during the entire school year. Please know that each child will travel this developmental journey at his/her own pace.
     
    Unit Goals:
    • Readers will build their reading identities
    • Readers will respect and take care of books in their community
    •  Readers will build strong reading habits

    Ways to support your child at home:

    • Help your child create a book basket in which they can practice caring for their books
    • Help your child to begin to grow stamina by having him/her stay focused on a book either by looking at pictures and/or text (depends on developmental level of child)
    • Find a favorite reading spot in the house
    Ask your child:
    • Why do good readers read the pictures?
      Answer: The pictures tell the story
    • Why do good readers reread a book over and over?
      Answer: It helps the reader to remember and retell the story


    Unit 2:
    Readers Read, Think and Talk about Emergent Storybooks 

    Kindergarten Reader’s Workshop continues! We are thrilled to share our partnership that bridges the children’s school and home reading life. The skills and strategies taught throughout this unit continue to layer the learning from our first unit. Please know how valuable your support at home is to our success. Allow your child to grow at his/her pace and to develop the love of reading.

     

    Unit Goals:

    ·         Readers will know all of the different ways you can read a story.

    ·        Readers will demonstrate their ability to think about books and be able to grow ideas about books and be able to grow ideas about books.

    ·        Readers will begin to understand the different strategies they can use to help them better understand the texts they are reading.

     

    Skills and Strategies Taught (What it looks and sounds like!):

     

    ·        Good readers point under the words and pictures of the text, go from left to right, top to bottom of the page, and page to page. 

    ·         Good readers use the pictures to name what they see and predict what will happen next.

    ·        Good readers read with others to share what they notice and talk about the details in the book. They read like story tellers using story telling voices and expressions.

     

    Ways to support your child at home: 

    ·         Help your child to use his/her finger to point to the pictures and words.

    ·         Help your child to begin to grow stamina by having him/her stay focused on a book either by looking at pictures and/or text (depends on developmental level of child)

    ·         Help your child to retell the story encouraging the use of expression with his/her voice.

    ·         Help your child to predict what might happen next.

     
    How do I read this book?
    Answer: Left to right, top to bottom, page to page
    How can a reader predict what will happen next?
    Answer: Readers use the pictures and details from page to page to support their thinking.
     
     

    Unit 3:

    Readers Use Powers
     

    Kindergarten Reader’s Workshop

    Kindergarten Reader's Workshop will introduce the super powers of an emergent reader. The skills and strategies support the understanding that  pictures assist in reading words. The children will learn to apply letters and their sounds along with high frequency words while reading a book.

    Unit Goals:

    ·         Readers will know what strategies they can use when they are reading.

    ·         Readers will know that they can use strategies interchangeably and demonstrate the ability to use strategies interchangeably while reading.

     

    ·       Readers will know that they can use their reading partners to help them become better readers.

     

    Skills and Strategies Taught (What it looks and sounds like!):

    ·         Good readers use the pictures and the words to give them the power to read a story.

     

    ·        Good readers point under words as they read to make sure the sounds that go with the letters and the number of words they say matches the number of words they see.

    ·        Good readers notice patterns in their books. They pay attention to words used over and over on every page.

     

    Ways to support your child at home:

    ·         Help your child to think about the superpowers he/she has to help read a book.

    ·         Help your child to grow stamina by having him/her stay focused on a book and reading for longer lengths of time (depends on developmental level of child)

    ·         Help your child discover different patterns in a book and predict what the next page might say.

    ·        Encourage your child to reread books to develop a smooth reading voice.

     
    Ask your child:

    What makes a pattern in a book?

    Answer: Words in a sentence are repeated with the exception of maybe one word or phrase on each page.

    What superpowers do you have as a reader?

    Answer: Letter sounds, picture cues, point under the words and at the pictures, reread