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READING WORKSHOP

Welcome to Effective Teaching Solution's Reading Workshop. Each link will take you to a new page with a list of picture books for teaching a reading skill or strategy. We've added to our list and enhanced the information to include lots of extra goodies to help you in the classroom. Each selected text includes the reading level, story treasure (a small item to give children as a memory helper for retelling the

story), teaching suggestion, real world and cross-curricular connections, and the author's website (if available). Save this page to your favorites. We plan to add more books and teaching ideas in the future.

Text Connections

Students make connections from the text they read to themselves, other texts, and the real world.

(T-S)  (T-T)

Paired Text (Text-to-Text) to Compare and Contrast

Students study two or more texts to make text-to-text connections, and to compare and contrast texts.

Predicting

Students make, adjust, and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading. Predictions motivates students to continue reading for a purpose, and helps them to make sense of the text.

Asking Questions

Students ask questions throughout reading. They make predictions and draw conclusions based on their questions and answers. Asking questions helps students to make sense of the text.

Visualizing

Students make mental pictures in their minds of the text (like a movie) as they are reading.

Inferring

Sequence of Events and Plot

Students recognize the sequence of events that occurs in a story, and retell those events orally, in writing, through dramatization, or through the use of visual manipulatives. As students grown in their understanding of text structures they can be introduced to plot structure.

Character Traits

Students identify and relate to a character's traits (personality traits) and feelings.

Setting

Students identify and visualize the time and place the story takes place.

Context Clues

Students determine meaning of unknown words using context clues.

Point of View

Students are able to identify and relate to the character's (or person's) point of view.

Foreshadowing

A literary device giving clues as to what comes next. Students identify the device and use it to make predictions.

Cause and Effect

Students identify cause and effect relationships that occur in the text.

Main Idea (nonfiction)

Students identify the main idea (what the text is mostly about) of the text.

Determine Importance (nonfiction)

Students determine what is important and not important while reading (or researching) nonfiction text. They learn to filter through the text to get to the main ideas and key concepts.

Narrative Text Structures

Expository Text Structures

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