Today in Reader's Workshop...

Today in Reader's Workshop the teaching point was "when you reread a book, you begin to understand some new things about it. One thing you begin to see is that all of the pages of a book go together.  As you read the pages, it's important to put them together with your own words to learn as much as you can".  This was a continuation of the strategy we focused on last week which was "great readers go slowly and reread to look for things they may have missed and learn even more".  The class became familiar with the phrase When you're done, you've just begun as it relates to looking at a book the first time.  Today reading partners sat back to back and read privately- slowly, noticing lots of details.  They may have even looked at their book a second time!  Then they turned to sit knee-to-knee with their partners and read to one another in their own words using the phrase "and then..." to connect the ideas from page to page.