The Reading Workshop

Cut out all those words.  This is poetry so you don't need them.  In fact, if the word doesn't do something to clarify meaning, ...

Make sure your writing says what you mean. Image from Puns @TheFunnyWorId

I was walking across the lawn. It was dark and I was afraid. I heard a noise. Loading... You can see responses HERE ...

Take a piece of advise from Lee Bennet Hopkins in his poem titled, Dear Poet . Take one of your drafts, Reading Workshop students, copy i...

Poems are never finished. Eventually though, we just stop working on them. Naomi Shihab Nye  said: If a teacher told me to revise,...

Take a piece of advise from Lee Bennet Hopkins in his poem titled, Dear Poet . Take one of your drafts, Reading Workshop students, copy i...

Starting today there is  zero tolerance for mistakes in writing .  The school year is half over.  Students in  Reading Workshop   have ...

So you get a first draft of a poem and it seems pretty good.  Now what?  Is it ready to publish?  Everything is spelled right.  It makes se...

I read Cassie's blog yesterday, and thought about it several times throughout the evening.  I woke up this morning and thought about it...

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

I was reading the NYC Educator's Blog when I came upon this post. He told this story about one of his students. I looked at the kid...

Kara M. said, "When you go through your essay, you see it like you think it's supposed to be. When you read it aloud, you find 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 of the best ways to improve writing is to read aloud your essay. ATandT Research Labs has a program that will read aloud for you. The...

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...

We sing daily in reading class. The lyrics are shown on the wall with a DLP projector. Students read the words as they sing. This helps s...