The Reading Workshop

Students in Reading Workshop are confused.  All year they have listened to me scream about more details.  They hear comments like, use infor...

Author Dandi Daley Mackall visited Laurelville Elementary on March 18-19. She has written over 400 published books in a variety of genres...

Handwriting is still alive, but should it be? With all of the emphasis on curriculum, the need to cover the course of study, and prepare fo...

Recently I posted about the poor grammar used by a worker at a local restaurant. A teacher today brought in a newspaper from the town wher...

Students need time to write. Students need to be able to pursue writing projects. Students need to make choices about their education. St...

What is most important to know about reading workshop? Some might say knowing what mini-lessons to teach is especially important. Others m...

Students finished their first major writing project last week--a letter about the book they were reading. This was quite a learning process...

When I have writer's block, I just write some hooey. I just put some words down, knowing that it ain't gonna be to good . What the...

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...

All good writing has problems, lots and lots of problems, with lots and lots of details. The more problems in a narrative, and the more des...

One journal, one topic, one file, but two writers make a Two Person Journal. Students were partnered with a peer from another class. A fol...

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...

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

Haiku poetry originated in Japan. It has a strict format that includes: 1. Three lines with 17 syllables in the pattern of 5 syllables, ...

In Mrs. Griffey's social studies class, students studied, researched, and then wrote essays about Mesopotamia. Students had to follow t...

One of our latest projects in Writing Workshop is to write a thank you letter to someone in your life that has made your life better. Stude...

We received the nicest thank you letter from a fourth grade student after we co-wrote the answer to a question using a book that Mrs. Wolfe ...

Today, the sixth graders were the teachers in Writing Workshop. Mrs. Wolfe's fourth grade language arts class came up to our room to co...

In Writing Workshop, we are improving through the use of committees. Each class has a Revision Committee and an Editing Committee. As stud...