Lesson 1 Analyzing Reading Lessons

Introduction

Objective: Given Reading instruction lesson plans, participants will analyze and dissect the different components, discussing the positive and negative aspects.

Questions asked in this lesson include:

What is a Reading Workshop?
What can we take away from analyzing reading instruction plans?

This first lesson is the foundation to the rest of the course. You must see how reading instruction can be taught before you can make decisions on how you can teach it. You will start to form your own opinions on what you think is important for reading instruction. I encourage you to write down your thoughts within this first lesson and revisit and update them as we move through the course. Let yourself be open to different ideas and let your mind be eager to create your own ideas of reading instruction.

Instruction

Gathering Information

Please read the following three reading lesson plans from Education.com and take notes on what you think are positive and negative aspects. Look at more than just the content, look at the structure, activities and more.

Contributing

Discuss: What are some things that stuck out to you in these lesson plans? What was positive or negative? Do these lesson plans follow a reading workshop model?

Talk: Lesson 1 Discussion

Check-In

What is reading workshop?

Reading Workshop is a model of literacy instruction that follows a certain lesson sequence with a goal of providing an engaging and balanced program. "The purpose of Reading Workshop is to promote fluency and to provide time to nurture the love of reading and to learn about texts in a variety of ways. Reading Workshop builds a community of readers as students receive support from their peers and interact with each other to develop good literacy skills. Reading Workshop is not just guided reading groups, it’s a lesson sequence that if followed can help achieve the goals listed above" (Pre-K Pages).

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References

Ellsberg, S. (2017). Nonfiction reading: Learning and recording new information. Education.com. Retrieved from https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/nonfiction-reading-learning-and-recording-new-information/

Gibson, J. (2018). Learning to read from left to right. Education.com. Retrieved from https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/el-support-lesson-learning-to-read-from-left-to-right/

St. Luce, A. (2015). Take a walk: Reading comprehension. Education.com. Retrieved from https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/reading-listening-comprehension/

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