The Reading Workshop

Today The Reading Workshop blog passed 10,000 hits. This means that the blog has been viewed 10,000 times. WOW! Thank you to parents, ...

In this whole world, there is no attraction stronger than one bad attitude to another. Today, when two classes were together for about 3 mi...

Today we will be writing a scary story . When I told students this last week, they thought I had lost my mind. "It's not Hallowee...

I first viewed this on Betchablog . Parents, students, and teachers, how should technology be incorporated into education? What would the i...

Why? Why? Why?

GOOD JOB! Congrats to the KW's for being selected as the Outstanding Commenters for April. Katie and Kari consistently post with gre...

"You can put on your headphones, play a CD, and listen to music as you work." Students almost fell out of their seats when I told...

Where is this student? Well, he is not in Reading Workshop. On our sixth day of school this week, I couldn't be prouder of the effort...

Everyone has heard of Fox's show, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? hosted by Jeff Foxworthy . In Reading Workshop, I didn't se...

Each day I read aloud from a fictional book. Currently, I am reading Double Identity written by Margaret Peterson Haddix . This story fea...

As we continue to work on getting the questions, students are beginning to show remarkable progress. You can read about previous work fro...

Thanks to those that have commented in response to the survey. If you haven't commented yet, please jump in there on the survey post . ...

This week, we are focusing on questions. Students are not even getting to see the passage that a question goes with, but they are expected ...

Dear Readers, Please give me a hand. I have been publishing this blog for about eight months now. Yesterday was a great day - the blog p...

Well, after a million and a half snow days, today we paid the price. Yes, we're in school on Saturday. And it feels different. For so...

Are you an active reader? Or do you snooze along? Do you "dog it?" Have a listen as a fourth grade student explains his view on h...

Today we are focusing on the HOT SPOT of an article. This idea was adapted from Ralph Fletcher's Writing Workshop, the Essentia...

Everybody loves to get a letter, even teachers. Our latest projects is one of my favorites because I get a lot of letters, and I get to rea...

On February 4-6 I attended the Etech Ohio 2008 Conference in Columbus, Ohio at the Convention Center. This annual event features 300 sessi...

Part of being a successful reader of nonfiction means understanding the important information. This week, we looked at reading from the oth...