December Reading Workshop
For
the month of December, students will be working on Monitoring for Meaning as
they read their fiction books.
Purpose:
The
purpose of this unit is to encourage students to stay involved in their
reading. This unit also allows the teacher to revisit strategies taught
earlier in the year and to teach students how these strategies need to change
as they move into reading higher level books.
Unit Goals:
∙ Students will read actively - staying
involved with their books by monitoring for meaning, connecting, predicting,
and having reactions to the text.
∙ Students will be partner reading, helping
each other work toward specific goals such as reading smoothly, reading
dialogue like the character, reading paying attention to punctuation, or
practicing retelling.
∙
Students will be able to use strategies that are
appropriate for the leveled text that they are reading.