Always include the four components in your mini-lesson plan: connection, teaching, active engagement (have-a-go), and the link. The connection should take less than one minute. Tell the children what you are going teach them and how it helps them as readers.

Planning Instruction. Reading Workshop has three major components: the mini-lesson, work time, and share time. Each of these components require their own unique planning lens.

Reading Workshop has three major components: the mini-lesson, work time, and share time. Each of these components require their own unique planning lens.

Basically, readers workshop provides extensive collections of books, emphasizes student choices of what will be read, limits students' reading to texts that can be read easily by them, requires that the students spend extensive time reading these books, provides explicit teaching through mini-lessons, and monitors and ...

Reading Workshop typically promotes the idea of guiding students to texts that won't be overly challenging, but that is often true of textbook selections, too. The issue isn't whether students' have reading choices, but whether what they read is demanding and valuable enough to develop greater ability and power.

Reading Workshop is designed to allow for a whole group lesson focused on one skill, strategy, or reading behavior and tailored to fit the needs of the class. Small group instruction and conferencing takes place during work time when children are working on their own or in partnership.

The Workshop is divided into a mini-lesson (10-15 minutes), workshop time (30-40 minutes), and share time (five-10 minutes). The mini-lesson is for skill or strategy introduction. Reader's Workshop fosters a love of reading.