The document discusses strategies and approaches for developing children's reading comprehension through a balanced literacy model, including providing time for reading, writing, and teacher instruction using various strategies before, during, and after reading. It emphasizes flexibility, self-selection of texts, and integrating reading and writing workshop into the classroom schedule in a way that energizes both students and teachers.

1. Lisa Haugen
Mar. 28, 29, 30

2. Comprehension
Fluent Background Oral Reading Repertoire
Reading Knowledge Language Writing of
and Connections Strategies
Vocabulary
Time to Talk
Time to Write
Time to Read
Experiences and skills that cultivate children’s comprehension
Sharon Taberski 2011

3. Typical Workshop Format:
The teacher models a specific skill or strategy either to
the whole group or small groups.
Students are then given ample amount of time to
practice the skill or strategy, while the teacher
monitors.
GOOD NEWS!! Reading/Writing Workshop does not
have to be this mundane. The Workshop approach
offers a great deal of flexibility that can energize both
students and teachers alike.

4. “It’s better to do fewer things
well than many things
superficially.”
Sharon Taberski

5. My Goal for Readers My Goal for Writers
For children to acquire skills and For children to acquire skills and
strategies for figuring out words. strategies to communicate
information and ideas.
For children to understand the For children to be able to write in a
wide variety of genres, and the variety of genres.
various literature themes.
For children to clearly express their For children to express their
thoughts and ideas about what thoughts and ideas about what
they have read. they write.
For children to love to read and to For children to develop a greater
choose reading as a leisure time confidence about writing and how
activity. they can integrate it into their lives
on a daily basis.

6.  Promotes a Balanced Literary Model through
 Flexibility
 Scheduling
 Differentiating Instruction
 Variety of strategies
 Materials

7.  10 min. Mini  10 min. Read  20 min. Paired
lesson aloud reading
 20 min.  10 min. Mini  10 min. Lit.
Independent or lesson
circles
partner reading
 20 min.
Independent or  10 min. Mini
 10 min. partner reading lesson
Reading share
 10 min. Reading  10 min. Reading
 10 min. conferences conferences
Journaling
There are numerous possible schedules that teachers can
create picking from the Balanced Literacy Menu.

8. “Researcher Donald Graves recommends that
readers self select about 80 percent of the
texts they read.”
Harvey, Goudvis, 2008

9.  Before Reading Strategies:
 Setting a purpose
 Anticipatory guides
 Predicting
 Developing background knowledge
 During Reading Strategies:
 Modeling and the “think aloud” strategy
 Visualizing
 Questioning
 Highlighting – Main idea, supporting details, and inference
support.
 After Reading Strategies:
 Oral and written retellings
 Visualizing
 Evaluating
 Making connections