Reading Workshop

In Reading Workshop we have been talking about being strong readers.
Strong readers do things like find a private spot to focus, warm up their brains by reading the title and taking a sneak peek of the book, and read as many words in books as we can.
We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

We noticed how Goldilocks found things were too hard, too soft, or juuuust right.  We can notice how books feel when we read them...are they too hard?  too easy?  or juuuust right?

We tried this out with books in our classroom, really noticing how it felt when we read them, and sorted them into three piles after we tried them to see how they felt.

Other analogies we made for how we know when a book feels just right is like how it feels when riding a bike:

and how it feels for a baby learning to walk.  We read this book by Marla Frazee:

We came up with this list for how it feels to read a book that is just right:

--you know most of the words

--you can still think about the story

--if you get to a tricky part, you can probably figure it out

Keep on reading, Room 408!