Readers workshop and Writers workshop

Reader's Workshop provides students with a supportive environment that involves them in authentic reading experiences that focus on the strengths and needs of each individual student.

Reader's Workshop helps kids develop strong reading skills through the use of a mini-lesson, shared reading, read aloud, conferencing, independent reading, paired reading, literature response, and Reader's Chair.

The basic philosophy behind the Reading Workshop is to allow students to spend an extended amount of time reading authentic texts that interests them on a daily basis and to provide opportunities to engage in discourse about literature. The ultimate goal of a Reading Workshop is always to develop life-long passionate readers.

Writer's Workshop is an interdisciplinary writing technique which can build students' fluency in writing through continuous, repeated exposure to the process of writing.

Teachers can introduce elements of Writer's Workshop at any elementary grade. Ideally, however, the process begins in Kindergarten.