A school year continues with....Reading Workshop!

So I have now been with my school for a few months.  It is a huge change from my last school.  The biggest change is the behavior concerns.  It isn't a class issue, but rather than just a few students.  So I try to look at the class as a whole.

Once I get the behavior under control for a lesson, here is what we are doing during Reading Workshop.

                              

Here is our main Reading Workshop bulletin board.  The anchor charts are changed out as needed.  Below are close-ups of the charts.

We started Reader's Workshop with practicing long-writes.  Here was a model for students and our sentence starters.

We then spend a week or two on reading skills or strategies based upon our curriculum.  Here is an anchor chart for clarifying and text-connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world.

Another major strategy was inferring.  Here is our anchor chart with an example on the chart.  A student example for one of our picture books is posted next to the anchor chart.

Main idea and supporting details is another skill students have learned this year.  We used the magnet summary strategy.  This example is posted next to the anchor chart.

Here is our background knowledge anchor chart as well as our author's purpose anchor chart.