Each and every day, your child will participate in a Reading Workshop. At The Reading Corner, we incorporate read-alouds, shared reading, guided reading, literacy workstations, and independent reading to provide a comprehensive reading program. At The Reading Corner, we start with the basics to ensure success.
Read-Aloud
Research continually demonstrates that reading aloud to children is the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for success in reading. A read-aloud may include pre-viewing the book, asking students to make predictions and connections to prior knowledge, stopping at purposeful moments to emphasize story elements, and asking focused questions. During an interactive read-aloud, students are engaged in learning by actively participating in the process. The teacher models good reading behaviors and strategies. Students observe the expert reader as he/she thinks aloud and reads through the text. The text is often at an advanced level. Books are carefully chosen to support the strategy focus.
Shared Reading
Shared reading is an interactive reading experience. Children join in the reading of a big book or other enlarged text as guided by the teacher. During the reading, the teacher involves the children in reading together by pointing to or sliding below each word in the text. This provides children the opportunity to participate and behave like a reader.
Guided Reading
Guided reading is conducted with small groups and is geared towards meeting the individual needs of each student. During a guided reading lesson, students are reading books at their instructional, or "just right" level, and are practicing reading strategies and decoding skills to help them comprehend the text and become successful, confident readers. Even children that are just learning their letters can participate in guided reading. Before children decode words, they learn pre-reading skills such as finger to word matching and concepts of print.
Independent Reading
Through sustained reading, students practice reading skills and strategies they have learned in read-alouds, shared, and guided reading. Students learn to choose books that are just right for them. Even at the earliest stages of learning to read, children can participate in independent reading.
Literacy Workstations
Literacy Workstations provide a way for children to work together on strategies and skills taught in shared and guided Reading. The Reading Corner incorporates hands-on activities such as word/letter sorts, making words, picture matches, rereading big books and poems, retelling stories through pictures, sight word activities, and reading and writing opportunities.