Lesson Idea | First 20 Days of Reading Lesson Plans and Tools
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.
Lesson Idea | First 20 Days of Reading Lesson Plans and Tools
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