The Reading Workshop

Last summer, my wife, Laura participated on a Relay for Life team with her coworkers at Pickaway Family Job and Family Services . I went i...

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

Mrs. Griffey has been studying Mesopotamia in her sixth grade social studies classes at Laurelville. At the end of the unit, students had ...

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...

The latest read aloud is the favorite of every class, every year-- Freak the Mighty , written by Rodman Philbrick. This is the story of Max...

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...

Reading is important for so many reasons. But, what do sixth graders think? And, what do their parents and grandparents think? Although I...

Not all words are created equal. Some words carry a heavier weight to the reader who is tuned in to using all possible means for comprehens...

Nothing replaces reading to get the meaning, but there are a lot of other clues if you know where to search. Using Scholastic News , we fo...

What is important? What should we highlight? What are the W's? The students worked hard to drag the meaning out of an article, and he...

Learning to read is the main focus throughout elementary school. However, the style of reading must change as students enter Jr. High Schoo...

Here are a few of the outstanding Clerihew poems Mrs. Cartee and Mr.T I once had teacher named Cartee I thought she was married to Mr.T so I...

Writing Workshop will focus on poetry for the next two weeks. We began working with free verse poems. Students listed topics they were in...

The Laurelville Reading Board is back up, and ready for comments. This is a place where you can comment about books. I have started out w...

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...

We did a Letterman style Top 10 of the reasons students are most thankful for Thanksgiving Break. Here is a compilation of the Top 10 Reaso...

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 ...

Mrs. Roe's third grade class is starting to use Study Island. For their first experience, they came up to sixth grade for some help. T...