Buzzing Readers

Here is another anchor chart I used for one of Lucy Calkins's mini-lessons for reading workshop. As adult readers, we talk about books we love and recommend them to each other all the time. I'm hoping that my students this year will learn to do the same and become fabulous buzzing readers!

We started by interviewing our reading partners and now we are practicing different ways to talk about our books using sentence frames. So far, the kids are pretty excited about it. It's pretty cool to listen in because I think they see themselves as this valuable resource for their reading partner. Buzz away readers!!

-K

Reading corner

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After reorganizing hundreds of books and buying all matching baskets, here is my newly organized reading corner this year. I hope that my students will be able to enjoy it this year and find books that are just right for them. Most books are leveled. My checkout system this year will be asking the students to mark the book basket with their clothespin when they check it out. That way they will be sure to return the books to the correct basket for the next reader!