Reader's Workshop Review

What type of behavior do we want to avoid during Independent Reading Time?

• Eyes looking at words

• Focusing on the book

• Sitting still

• Talking to partner

What does a good listener do?

• Makes faces at speaker

• Looks at speaker

• Reads while listening

• Walks around the room

How does a Book Pass help you as reader?

• I learned how to throw books

• I learned that all books are the same and boring

• I made a list of books that I might be interested in reading

• A book pass does not help me as a reader

Which of the following actions does not describe the way we should treat a book?

• Use a bookmark

• Carefully put your book in your desk or backpack

• Feed it to your pet

• Report damages right away

Why would it be important to read more than one type of genre?

• It isn't important. Reading the same genre over and over again is good.

• Because my teacher told me to

• I want to complete the reading challenge the fastest

• Reading different types of texts helps us become better and stronger readers

Visualizing a text means

• Copying a picture out of the book

• Thinking about what you are reading and creating a picture in your mind

• Looking at pictures of the book while you read

• Drawing a picture about what I did last night at home

Think marks are used to

• mark what page you stopped reading

• think about your thinking (metacognition)

• draw illustrations in your Independent Reading Spiral (IRS)

• make a paper airplane

Having an open mind and showing respect while talking to you partner about their reading is important

• True

• False

Which of the following is not true when picking out a new book?

• I should be able to understand most of the words on the page

• It is better to pick out a book that is easy for me to read so I can finish faster

• Picking out a "just right" book will help me understand what I am reading

• I should make time reading the title, the summary and the first page before making a decision.

I am more likely to enjoy a book if..

• my teacher tells me I have to read it

• it is written above my reading level

• it is written in a foreign language

• it is a topic I am interested in and "just right" for me