Reading Workshop Toolkit for Kindergarten and First Grade

Reading workshop resources for Kindergarten and first grade - reading strategies posters, lesson planning templates, anecdotal note forms, reading strategy bookmarks, and more!

Create a high-quality reading workshop for your Kindergarten or first grade students, and spend less time planning!

This 490-page pack of materials includes tools for both you and your students.

You get strategy posters, planning templates, anecdotal note forms, and resources for holding reading conferences.

Your students get strategy cards and bookmarks to use during independent reading.

These resources can be used as part of a reading workshop model, as well as for guided reading or with any reading program/structure that you already use.

These materials will enable you to:

• Get students using reading strategies consistently
• Improve the quality of students' independent reading
• Stay organized and spend less time preparing your minilessons
• Conduct reading conferences that effectively move students forward in their reading
• Track students' progress over time

Here's what's included in the K-1 Reading Workshop Toolkit: 

Reading Strategy Cards and Posters:
A set of cards and corresponding posters to help you teach reading strategies. You can display the posters in your classroom and use them during mini-lessons. Place the corresponding strategy cards on small binder rings to have students use while reading independently or during guided reading. A total of 90 different strategies are included.

Blank Reading Strategy Cards and Posters:
A set of cards and corresponding posters to help you teach reading strategies - this set has the same 90 strategies as above, but without visual representations/images. Use this set if you want to make your own visuals or have students create visuals.

Planning Templates (print and write in):
A set of planning templates to help you create daily, weekly, and unit plans for reading workshop. Choose the template(s) you like best, print them out, and fill in your plans.

Planning Templates (editable):
A set of editable planning templates that you can use to create daily, weekly, and unit plans for reading workshop (PowerPoint format).

Assessment / Anecdotal Note Forms:
A set of forms and checklists you can use to take anecdotal notes about students’ reading. Choose from 21 different forms, in the format of 1 page per child or 1 page for multiple students.

Prompts and Teaching Points:
A document with suggested questions at the beginning of a reading conference, as well as specific teaching points/strategies you can teach during reading conferences, small group instruction, and/or whole group instruction.

Bookmarks for Students:
A set of bookmarks that students can use as a reference for phonics and strategies, to mark a place in a book where they used a specific strategy, and to record their thinking. A total of 10 “reference”, 14 “thinking”, and 17 “write-on” bookmarks are included.

To read more about the toolkit, please look at the FREE preview in the product images! For photos of the materials and more information about how to use the resources included, check out this blog post.

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