First Grade Common Core:
Reading
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READING WORKSHOP is the time of our day when we work on our literacy skills in many different ways. We work as a whole group, in small groups, in partnerships, and individually. There are three main parts to our Reading Workshop. They are the C.A.F.E strategies, the Daily 5, and guided reading. During the Daily C.A.F.E mini-lessons, we are learning strategies as a whole group that will help us to be better readers. Then during our Daily 5 time, we get the chance to use those strategies as we practice reading and writing individually or with a partner.
The Daily 5 The Daily 5 is a structure within our classroom that fosters and develops independence with literacy. The first several weeks of school are spent learning the routines of the Daily 5 to create independent readers and writers. These routines consist of 5 different literacy activities while guided reading groups and teacher conferencing are taking place. The five choices are Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, and Work Work. C.A.F.E strategies are designed to help young readers understand and master different strategies that good readers use. Each letter in the word "CAFE" stands for a different category of these strategies. Comprehension: I understand what I read. Accuracy: I can read the words. Fluency: I can read accurately with expression, and I understand what I read. Expanding Vocabulary: I know, find, and use interesting words. Each one of these categories contains several different strategies that good readers use when they read. Reading is a process that is very complex, and to become better readers, we need to improve our comprehension, accuracy, fluency AND vocabulary! WRITERS WORKSHOP We will be using the Writer’s Workshop process to teach writing. As in a professional writer’s workshop, each student in the class is a working author. The teacher is a writing professional and peer coach, guiding authors as they explore their craft. Writer’s Workshop is designed to emphasize the act of writing itself-students spend most of their time putting pencil to paper, not just learning about it over time, students learn to choose their own topics and to manage their own development as they work through a wide variety of writing projects in a sustained and self-directed way. |