The Reading Workshop

Each day in Reading Workshop for about 7 minutes (usually two songs), students sing. Lyrics are shown on the white board using the LCD p...

Take a breath, and then another, and another.  How do you know when to pause when you are reading?             PUNCTUATION! Or, as...

As part of our reading class, we are singing Mean by Taylor Swift which asks the question, "why you gotta be so mean?"  The c...

You can see the shock on this student's face . Students were amazed when I told them they could start listening to music as they r...

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...

Being a student in Reading Workshop is hard work. Keeping up with assignments is hard work. The whole educational process is serious busi...

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...

Kids live for music. There is never a day that they don’t listen to music. BUT, we rarely use it as part of our educational program in inter...

"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...

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...

The first book to be read aloud this year is a Time Warp Trio book, The Not So Jolly Roger , written by Jon Scieszka . This is the tale of ...