The Reading Workshop

Student bloggers have made an excellent start, displaying their writing, sharing their thoughts, ideas, and opinions. As the first nine wee...

As the first 9 weeks comes to an end, it is time to grade The Reading Workshop students' blogs.  This is a chance for students to have i...

How hard do you work?  Would others around you agree?  What do peers think of you as a worker?  What do your parents think about your work e...

The Huffington Post has provided the opportunity for bloggers from the education field to share their views.  This  is an excellent source ...

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

Students have to read at home 180 minutes each week to earn an "A."  When she turned in her paper, she had read for 170 minutes. ...

As published writers, students in Reading Workshop must recognize the importance of writing well.   Grammar, spelling, and punctuation skill...

Effective readers use pictures, titles, headings, and text—as well as personal experiences—to make predictions before they begin to read and...

Education is in a crisis.  Set off the alarms.  Students and parents everywhere are  desperately Waiting for Superman to come and save the ...

Ashlee walked to school today.  For a lot of students that is not such a big deal, but Ashlee lives 2 1/2 miles away.  This eleven year old ...

We just discussed the Queen of Fake Reading , and no one wants to be her.  In fact, everyone knows that I am talking about someone else.  Su...

Almost every day she goes to the book room during SSR.  She "just finished" reading her book.  If there are 30 minutes of reading ...

In this video, students in Reading Workshop share their thoughts about "Why I Read."

Your brain is a sneaky thing.  The whole time you are reading it is thinking things without you telling it to.  It sneaks around making conn...

The biggest reason I read is because I can't not read.  It is totally impossible. Books, magazines, newspapers, and online more and more...

As I sat watching the rerun of the Glee season finale from last year, it reminded me of the reason that matters most when teachers walk thr...

Put some life into your reading.  Make the words and the voices scream out.  Don't just read it, live it.  If the beautiful princess and...

Good readers are one with the book.  They know the characters, strive to understand them and relate to them.  They picture the setting, comp...

He was looking at the ceiling.  He was looking at the girl beside him.  His head rolled around and then settled on his pencil.  He poked his...

Walk into the Reading Workshop classroom and it is so quiet.  Students are intensely focused on their screens.  About the only sound is the ...