Reader's Workshop    3rd grade students reading their stories to one another. Reader's Workshop is a teaching method that has been around for many years.  Its main focus is to foster a love for reading within our students, and to differentiate, or personalize, instruction in order to accomodate the learning needs of all students. Students take more responsibility for their learning choosing books that appeal to them and are at their own instructional level respond to the text they are reading share thoughts and ideas within small groups Teacher teaches mini-lessons based on observations of student needs conferences with individual students personalizes instruction keeps records of student progress