The Reading Workshop

I had this conversations with a student: Student:  My aunt doesn't care if I work hard. Me:  Seriously? Student:  No, she doesn'...

Do you dare enough to dream?  What is your dream?  Although this clip is from a couple of years ago, the power of the song and the message h...

What do you want to do?  What do you want to be?  Do you have the guts to dream?  Do you have the courage to make it happen? Reading Wor...

Does Katy Perry's song Firework apply to you?  If there were no limits and you could accomplish anything, what would you do?   The lat...

Want to know the results of the Midway Survey.  Just look on the wikipage at Midway Survey Results . Thank you for all of the parents that ...

 I was sitting in the chair, getting my hair cut, having the typical casual conversation with the woman cutting my hair, when I noticed the ...

This school year is half over/still half to go.  As the new semester begins, take a minute to think about your goals.  This poem, Mother to...

What issues are pulling you?  What keeps you from learning?  No one goes through life consciously wishing to fail.  Everyone has thoughts o...

Her homework paper said she read exactly 30 minutes a day.  She read exactly 10 pages each time.  As I looked at the paper, I thought, ...

As the Reading Workshop students begin to blog regularly (see links in the sidebar), one might question, what do you want the students to g...

Students were given excerpts from the President's speech and asked to respond. Many of the comments were insightful, and showed a real ...

Recently we were singing a 3 Doors Down song as part of the ongoing efforts to build fluency .  We were singing the song, "Be Like Th...

There is nothing like a nice long break to help feel rested and rejuvinated. BUT, boy is everyone slow getting started. It seems like brai...

What makes a great teacher--a list to live by! with thanks to Doug Johnson for sharing his idea 1. Interpersonal skills trump profession...

I was thinking about the role of this blog in my class. I was trying to decide if it was valuable, and if I needed to make changes or adjus...

I had an interesting conversation with a student yesterday. We were talking about being smart or being dumb. Is it a choice? It seems to ...

Success is not brain surgery. The obvious thing to do is usually the right thing to do. And the right thing to do generally isn’t all that h...

Megan dipped into the conversation at the table beside us. This guy said, "kids should want to go to school because they want to learn...