Our Goal this week in Reading Workshop has been to read like the teacher. What does that look like? What does that sound like?
Here is a clip of a student reading a nonfiction book. Reading like a teacher means reading cover to cover, looking at every picture, thinking about what you already know on the topic and what the author might be teaching you in that picture. You will hear me prompting when he is unsure of what he might see in this beautiful nonfiction book on Cheetahs. You can guide your child through reading nonfiction books at home too by asking questions or drawing attention to details in a photograph.
Here is another student practicing a fiction book reading like a teacher. Notice the student making gestures from the story, exact words from the story, reading the book page by page and using the picture to support her details. This is the type of reading you can expect to see at home.
