Today was an amazing day for book discovery. We began our reader's workshop by discussing ownership. As the teacher, I wanted our students to have ownership in the classroom. We started off by taking all of the books out of the community bookshelf. The students were asked to organize the books based on genre and/or theme. The discussions these students had were rich with vocabulary based on the genre. It was a very fulfilling moment for the students to feel that they took leadership within our classroom. This community building has been one of many activities we have done in order to learn to work well with one another.
After having the discussions about the books we jumped into book shopping. Each child has there own book box (pictured below) where they have books at their "Just Right Level." Today the students were able to have a range and choose books they were interested in. Later this wee we will talk about a Just Right Book so our students can feel more comfortable and confident in reading.
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