[MOSAIC] Beginning Reader's Workshop

[Bonita]

Hi Amy,
  Sounds like your school situation is not going to be very conducive to reader's workshop.  You might be able to squeeze a modified version into social studies if you use historic fiction and also nonfiction as a genre focus.  It gives your students less choice, but might allow you to try a workshop approach for a period of the day.  Any chance of paring down the other reading program (success for all?) and sparing some more time there?

:)Good luck.  We all understand the struggle.
Bonita DeAmicis
California, grade 5

>   I guess my question to the group is:  Where do I begin to implement Reader's Workshop, and how do I squeeze it in???  Should I focus on just one part, like the read-aloud?  I might be able to fit 20-30 minutes of Read-Aloud into my day most days.  I'm pretty sure I don't have the 90 minutes I need to do a full-blown Reader's Workshop without giving up Social Studies and Science (which are in jeaportdy even now).