Overview of a Day’s Reading or Writing Workshop

WORKSHOP COMPONENT TIME FRAME LOGISTICS TEACHER STUDENTS

The teacher gathers
MINILESSON Less than 10 min. students in the meeting
area next to their partners
Whole-group instruction
• Connection
• Name the teaching point Listening, then actively
• Teaching engaged in applying
• Active Engagement new learning
(guided practice)
• Link to the work students will do

One-on-one and small-group teaching

• Circulate

introduction
• Observe
INDEPENDENT Practicing strategies learned
READING AND WRITING • Question throughout the unit,
Students find comfortable
35–45 min. • Listen working independently
spots to read or write
CONFERRING AND • Coach or with partners
SMALL-GROUP WORK
• Demonstrate
• Reinforce the minilesson
• Encourage

3–5 min. Extends the minilesson Pausing to reflect, then

MID-WORKSHOP Students’ eyes are on
(during independent reading or reminds students of refocusing to resume
TEACHING and writing time) the teacher
ongoing habits reading or writing

The teacher gathers stu-

dents in the meeting area Sets students up to share Sharing their learning
SHARE 3–5 min. or calls for their attention and celebrate the work with partners or
while they remain at their they did that day the whole group
reading or writing spots

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