The Reading Workshop

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

How is winning a basketball game like passing an Achievement Test? It's all about using what you worked on in practice at game time. S...

The Ohio Department of Education has a portal into all of their Achievement Test Resources . Teachers, parents, and students can access th...

If you haven't met Martha before, you can read about Martha, the Test Grader , and then More on Martha the Test Grader . So Martha, the ...

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...

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OK, so Martha has your test and answer booklet. She doesn't know you, and doesn't care to. In fact, she doesn't even know abou...

Martha is a single mom, with a four year old daughter named Emily. Martha is just trying to get by day to day. This morning, at 6:00 AM, a...

Recently Reading Workshop students took the 2006 Sixth Grade Ohio Achievement Test as practice for the actual test. I surveyed students t...

As we continue the read aloud of Larger-Than-Life LARA , written by Dandi Daley Mackall in Reading Workshop, the characters are coming aliv...

I had to see Mrs. Sturgell, a 2nd grade teacher about the Relay for Life. When I walked into her room, she was pausing her read aloud for ...

After reading a few chapters from Larger-Than-Life LARA , written by Dandi Daley Mackall , I am so interested in Laney.  The book is written...

What does the teacher do when school is out? Go to school, of course. That is what I did on Friday. SCOCA --South Central Ohio Computer As...

Students in Reading Workshop took the 2006 Reading Ohio Achievement Test as a practice run on Monday. We then scored the test, using the te...

I just stopped at the market to get a newspaper and a snack. As I laid down the items to pay, the cashier looked at me and said, "what...

He was right in front of me, so I couldn't help but watch him. I would guess he was about four years old. If I would have acted that w...

I heard the comment the other day, "if it can't be fixed in five minutes, with what's on hand, then don't mention it."...

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

No time for blogging. No time for reading. No time for Online Journals . Podcasts would not help test scores. Singing might help fluenc...

Copiers are firing off worksheets and pencil sharpers are grinding away. This time of year, The Reading Workshop , like almost every other ...