First Grade Shared Reading Lessons for Reading Workshop: Unit 1

  This is a set of shared reading lesson plans and strategy visuals for first grade students. This unit is the first in a series of 7 and is perfect for use at the beginning of the school year or when you want to start reading workshop! These lessons are very flexible - you can use the suggested texts or choose your own. The lessons can also be rearranged to meet your school's curriculum or scope and sequence! Reading strategy lessons AND routines/procedures lessons are included in this unit. The reading strategy lessons will help you teach foundational literacy strategies. Decoding, fluency, and comprehension strategies are addressed. The routine lessons will help your students build reading stamina and learn to read or pretend-read independently!  FAQs: What is shared reading? Shared reading is an instructional practice in which you, the teacher, lead students in a reading activity where the students can clearly see the words of the text. You do some modeling during shared reading, b