First 20 Days of Reading Lesson Plans and Tools

Description

This guide will help you plan your first 20 days of Reader’s Workshop in grades 3-5. It’s full of lessons and printable tools to glue into reader’s notebooks. Establish a meaningful relationship with books and clear expectations for independent reading right away!

This file is a zip file that includes three PDFS.

This resource includes:

The First 20 Days Guide

• A step-by-step guide to the first 20 days of Reader’s Workshop. Lessons include:
  • How to choose books
  • Learning the classroom library
  • Setting goals
  • Monitoring our comprehension
  • Responding to reading in notebooks
  • Marking our thinking with sticky notes
  • Sharing with a reading buddy and more!

• Pictures of anchor charts you can create with your students

Teacher Tools

• Library checklist
• Responding to reading sentence starters
• Sample reading responses (3)
• Cards for reading salad activity
• Mentor Book Lists: titles for reading and writing titles, and building community

Student Tools

• Reader’s notebook cover
• Meaningful book response sheet
• Reading survey
• Reading goals
• Fiction vs. nonfiction table
• Book Pass activity
• Books I’d like to read list
• Books I’ve read list

This resource is easy to use but it will help you build a classroom environment that will make independent reading purposeful and fun all year.