Reading Wonders Reading/Writing Workshop Volume 2 Grade 1, Concise and focused, the Wonders Reading/Writing Workshop is a powerful instructional tool that provides students with systematic support for the close reading of complex text. Through the Reading/Writing Workshop, teachers introduce the week's concept, teach through mini lessons that reinforce comprehension strategies and skills, genre and vocabulary as well as model elements of close reading with shared, short-text reads of high interest and grade-level rigor.