The Reading Workshop

Yesterday's class focused on Using Prior Knowledge to help students read and understand their SSR book.  Today in Reading Workshop, we ...

Imagine picking up a book written in French.  How much would you understand?  How about the same book in English?  Even if there are parts y...

Good readers constantly make connections. As they read each paragraph, each page, each chapter, they relate it to their life. Making conn...

On April 2, 2010 the movie based on Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid will open.  For all of the students in Reading Workshop that have...

Good readers must get inside the book.  For comprehension to occur, several reading strategies must take place simultaneously.  Students mus...

This school year is half over/still half to go.  As the new semester begins, take a minute to think about your goals.  This poem, Mother to...

As the grading period ends, Student blogs must be assessed.  For those striving for excellence, here is the expectation. Studen...

Chicago author Nelson Algren said, “A writer does well if in his whole life he can tell the story of one street.”  Chicagoans, but not just ...

Roberta Caudill and I had the opportunity to share our blogs and some blogging basics at the Logan Elm Schools waiver day.   Here are some...

Who are you?  Do you know yourself?  One of the greatest aspects of poetry is the way it helps the writer explore his/her thoughts, ideas, a...

Poems are built on ideas, experiences or emotions in a condensed form that makes the reader search for understanding.  The reader should slo...

As we begin to spend time in Reading Workshop on poetry, one of the first tasks is to list events  that merit consideration of the time and ...

Hadley has written 45 posts since September 17.  Most students in Reading Workshop write one or two posts a week.  Hadley has averaged four...

Poetry is so hard to write.  It is so personal, and no matter whether you are 8 or 80, the difficulty is right there, staring you in the fac...

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Today is the first day back from winter break.  Well, today was supposed to be the first day back.  Instead, we get one more day.  Fourteen...

I thought it was funny when she quit her first book of the year, especially when I saw the book.  The Magician's Elephant by DiCamillo...

There is no better present than a Christmas poem.  Students in Reading Workshop will be writing a poem to publish and take home as a gift. ...

Students recently completed a Reading Workshop Student Survey .  This is an easy way for me to see their thoughts and opinions about our cl...

What issues are pulling you?  What keeps you from learning?  No one goes through life consciously wishing to fail.  Everyone has thoughts o...