Classroom Reading Organization Tips for guided reading groups, reading lessons and how to make your reading instruction more than manageable!

Story Retelling

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It is important that you use the first few weeks of reading to launch your workshop. One thing that I like to do during this time is create reading workshop anchor charts. Creating anchor charts for reading workshop is an important part of instruction. Reading workshop expectations anchor charts can be prepared ahead of time but students should have an active role it its creation. Click the pin to see 5 anchor charts to launch reading workshop…

Borrow from the best! These teachers have created amazingly effective anchor charts for reading comprehension skills. You're going to love them all!

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This can be assigned during sustained silent reading time and home reading. Students can read their book and while reading complete this worksheet on story elements. This way students are practicing this unit and being held accountable with their reading.

An anchor chart for reader's workshop!

ELA in the middle | Middle School English, Language Arts. This is something that can be used in social studies to bolster cross curricular

Here's a poster I just finished up that I'll be adding to my classroom this year! Cara at The First Grade Parade made a poster for "Why Writers Write." I've been wanting to make one for "Why Readers Read" and finally made it tonight.