The Reading Workshop

Will we ever get a new school? Do we need one? Would it improve the quality of education for Logan Elm students? I was reading the Blue S...

Great job to the students that took the Ohio Sixth Grade Reading Achievement Test. Sorry to those that didn't get to take it, but your ...

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...

How do you know when you are reaching your students? How do you know they are motivated? How do you know they are putting forth extreme ef...

Success is not brain surgery. The obvious thing to do is usually the right thing to do. And the right thing to do generally isn’t all that h...

Tune up that achievement vocabulary. "What," you say, "is achievement vocabulary?" Certain words are contained in Achi...

Laurelville sixth grade students compiled a list of the top 10 Achievement Test Tips. Here is the Real Top 10, Baby! Go to bed ...

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

Hang in there! I know you have been working hard to prepare for the Achievement Test. One week from today, you will have the opportunity fo...

"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...

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

Where is this student? Well, he is not in Reading Workshop. On our sixth day of school this week, I couldn't be prouder of the effort...

Mrs. Griffey pulled up to a gas station. An alien landed a spaceship beside her. She noticed the spaceship said U.F.O. on the side. Mrs. ...

Everyone has heard of Fox's show, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? hosted by Jeff Foxworthy . In Reading Workshop, I didn't se...

The Sixth Grade class at Laurelville Elementary is moving forward with our plan for a Relay for Life. The purpose of a Relay is to raise mo...

A student asked me on Monday, "Mr. McGuire, are there rules for commenting?" I replied, "there are no rules but there are exp...

Megan dipped into the conversation at the table beside us. This guy said, "kids should want to go to school because they want to learn...

Each day I read aloud from a fictional book. Currently, I am reading Double Identity written by Margaret Peterson Haddix . This story fea...

Will Richardson, in his blog, weblogg-ed tells a story of a student in in-school suspension . This student, while under suspension, texted...

As we continue to work on getting the questions, students are beginning to show remarkable progress. You can read about previous work fro...