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146 Jennifer Lamarsh Özay ReadIng Workshop: Research Clubs In our Research Club, a Reading Workshop unit, learners got ready to research by first previewing resources within a text set and setting a purpose for reading. They oriented themselves to text features across texts to glean sub-topics. Learners were then positioned to read with a purpose in order to read for main ideas and supporting details. Learners became researchers as they synthesized information just as experts do. Students also learned and used technical vocabulary within and beyond the texts they encountered. Grade 4 learners then launched collaborative reading work through Research Clubs that culminated in shared authorship of their findings. Elif Kübra KARAKAŞ GETTING READY FOR RESEARCH: FINDING SUB-TOPICS ACROSS A TEXT SET My topic is elephants. I learned about their life. I found sub-topics like, how they hunt, their home, and their body. I wrote the information. It was helpful to have 3 books because in one book there was a little information about the subject and then in the other books I found more information. We were in a group and we all read the text features and looked for a sub-topic. A sub-topic is the thing that is most important because it is in all the books. I separate the ideas and I put the ideas in order from the easy book to the hard book. Nesim MÜSAFİR BUILDING A READING LIFE It is important to read books you like. I like reading books in the library because it is quiet. I can read in a quiet place and think. In a nosy place, I get a headache. In the library, Ms. Jennifer read a story called Two Bad Ants. The ants took sugar from a kitchen. I liked that story. I researched ants because of all the ants in Çeşme. I checked out lots of books about ants and learned how they build colonies.