The Reading Workshop

Reading Workshop students, I hope you have the opportunity to go to college. If you want an education, it won't happen in a collage. ...

Homophones--Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Not Homophones—where/were Homophones—where/wear A...

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Spell Check is a great tool that helps all writers produce cleaner writing. However, writers still need to proofread their own work. The p...

If you want to be taken seriously as a writer, you must write cleanly. Many readers will judge what you say by how you say it. If your writ...

As published writers, there is no excuse for mistakes.  Sister Salad  points out the reason most of us take writing correctly so seriously....

Students have spent time in Reading Workshop reading and writing blogs, so their grade should reflect their efforts.  In a previous post, w...

Student blogs this year were created and hosted at WordPress .  In the past, we used Blogger, but due to the recent changes, (like requiring...

I just happened to be walking down the first grade hallway when I overheard one of the first grade teachers talking to a little boy. Althou...

Texting, IM'ing, and the casual language of students today is a concern to many people in education. When talking to students, by far t...

My daughter, Heather got this message from a friend she hadn't seen in a while. She was glad to hear from her, and is going to make pla...

I was driving yesterday morning, about a mile from the school and saw this sign. At first it caught my eye, because I have beagles. I am no...

This is a new type of zero tolerance set up specifically for Reading Workshop. Students are expected to write without mistakes. Each ...

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...

How has the use of electronic writing affected you? How has it helped? What problems has it caused? With only one month left in the school y...