Reading workshop first grade

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Through the years I have tried many ways of running guided reading workstations. The workshop time is always a student favorite, but I found a way to make it my favorite time as well.

This year, I’ll be going back to teaching kindergarten. Even in kindergarten, I run a full-blown reading workshop. So, yes, my reading instruction happens in less than fifteen minutes and then I send those lovely little 5 year olds off to…READ. No centers, no crafts, no stations (during reading workshop)…they just read. They have a […]

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