Getting Started with Readers Workshop in September
September Goals:
1. Build relationships
2. Establish trust
3. Create working literate environments
4. Get to know students as learners
Create a Culture and Climate for Thinking:
1. Establish procedures
2. Include rigor, inquiry and intimacy
Build genuine relationships:
1. Show students how to be kind, respectful, helpful
2. Celebrate catching kids doing the right thing
3. Teach appropriate ways to do things
4. Maximize teachable moments
Establish Mutual Trust:
1. Takes time!
2. Maintain high expectations
3. Respect students’ ideas, opinions and decisions
4. Trust yourself
5. Start small, then allow students to help with classroom tasks
1. Build relationships
2. Establish trust
3. Create working literate environments
4. Get to know students as learners
Create a Culture and Climate for Thinking:
1. Establish procedures
2. Include rigor, inquiry and intimacy
Build genuine relationships:
1. Show students how to be kind, respectful, helpful
2. Celebrate catching kids doing the right thing
3. Teach appropriate ways to do things
4. Maximize teachable moments
Establish Mutual Trust:
1. Takes time!
2. Maintain high expectations
3. Respect students’ ideas, opinions and decisions
4. Trust yourself
5. Start small, then allow students to help with classroom tasks