READING and WRITING OPTIONS

Reading Options: Reading to Self or Reading with Someone or Listen to Reading

Reading Options offer students additional opportunities to read.  In order to become proficient readers, students must be provided with opportunities to read, read, and read some more!  Everyday we have Reader's Workshop.  During this time we have a short minilesson focusing on the strategies readers use to decode and understand the texts they read.  Students put into practice what we learn about during our Reader's Workshop minilessons when they choose a Reading Option.  Our Reading and Writing Options times take place in 20-minute sessions.  We generally have 2 sessions per day.  After semester one, I have students begin recording the books they've read for the day.  They take the recording sheet home at the end of the day.  I've also had them graph the number of books read over a month's time too.  I like to change things up every now and then after first semester, to give us something new and fresh and offer students a little more variation in their routine.  Reading Options include:

1. Read to Self

2. Read with Someone

3. Listen to Reading