We are almost finished with our launching unit in reading workshop. Today's lesson focused on making sure to have a balanced reading diet. Just like we need to eat a variety of foods to stay strong and healthy, we need to read a variety of books to become strong and healthy readers. We looked at several of the books from our first unit and put them under the correct genre on our "Balanced Reading Diet" plate. We talked about how we should try to get books from all three genres in our book baskets to become strong readers.