Reader’s Workshop Minilessons That Increase Students’ Reading Comprehension

Term

Summer 8-11-2014

Capstone

Thesis

Degree Name

MAEd

Primary Advisor/Dissertation Chair

Margot Galt

Secondary Advisor/Reader One

Michele Dunn

Peer-Reviewer/Reader Two

Andrea Rock

Abstract

The research question addressed in this project was, how can minilessons be created to support the development of reading comprehension for primary grade readers? It is the creation of three units of study pertaining to specific reading comprehension strategies. The units include making connections, visualizing, and drawing inferences/predicting and were designed to be developmentally appropriate for early readers. Each unit contains roughly 15 minilessons to be implemented in a Reader’s Workshop model. This project relied heavily on the integration of research conducted by Lucy Calkins (2001) and Debbie Miller (2002).

Keywords

Curriculum, Reading

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