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What Is a Reading and Writing Workshop?
The reading and writing workshop was not a curriculum. It was more like a framework, a set of routines. Here's how it works: The teacher starts with something called a mini lesson. Then the children are sent off to find comfortable spots so they can practice avid reading. Most of them don't know how to read yet. But they're supposed to spend 35 to 45 minutes reading independently and in small groups.
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