The Reading Workshop

Does Katy Perry's song Firework apply to you?  If there were no limits and you could accomplish anything, what would you do?   The lat...

The recent spotlight on school quality should help ensure a better education for all students.  Everywhere you turn there is constant conver...

Want to know the results of the Midway Survey.  Just look on the wikipage at Midway Survey Results . Thank you for all of the parents that ...

 I was sitting in the chair, getting my hair cut, having the typical casual conversation with the woman cutting my hair, when I noticed the ...

If you were building a house, would you use a hammer for every task?    It would be more than a little difficult to measure a board with a h...

Teaching Reading Workshop requires a different style than the more traditional teacher-centered lecture-based classroom. As I was reading a ...

Students are writing Christmas poems as a gift of writing. No gift means more than a heartfelt poem.  Students are writing a free verse poem...

It was almost time for Thanksgiving dinner.  We sat watching football, anxiously awaiting the turkey, mashed potatoes, and dressing.  Unfort...

Thanksgiving is here and there are a lot of turkeys in this neighborhood and I am thankful for all of them.  Well, I am thankful for most of...

What does the person I paired you with say about you? Students in Reading Workshop are constantly working in pairs, and small groups.  Almo...

"Did you have fun with your partner?" she whispered with a sneer to the girl in the seat next to her.  I just happened to be in th...

I like getting letters, so the current project in Reading Workshop, write a Dear Mr. McGuire Letter on the topic of Reasons Why I Like the...

As said on the Logan Elm Local School District website. Thank you voters! We appreciate your support. We promise to be good stewards of ...

Have you used Twitter lately?  Currently there are over 160 million registered users.  More  than 90M tweets are written per day.  Yet this...

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. ...