The Reading Workshop

Laurelville Elementary earned the rating of Excellence with Distinction on the Ohio Report Card . This is the result of high standards an...

It's a new school year and four days in, students are doing great.  Most have started to adjust to their new school schedule and get ...

My teaching neighbour, Mrs. Jayne Stevenson shared this great idea and Web 2.0 tool to allow students to post comments and/or answer questio...

So Martha, the Test Grader is sitting in her cubical and opens your test. She turns to the first short answer and this is what she sees. ...

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 ab...

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,...

Students have been working hard, preparing for the Ohio Achievement Assessment .  They have done a kazillion (this is a very high number tha...

I am tired of making mistakes.  I am tired of not knowing the right thing to say.  I am tired of all kinds of problems.  I want to be perfec...

Learning vocabulary is never fun for students.  However, a large part of success when taking the Ohio Achievement Assessment is determined b...

The end of the nine weeks is here.  Work has been turned in and graded.  But what if a student's average doesn't fit what they have ...

A student downstairs in Ms. Wooten's third grade ask if she thought the world was going to end in 2012.   Her answer to that was that s...

You start reading and after a little bit, your mind wanders.  After a few minutes, you are bored with the book, ready to quit it and find a ...

The current read aloud in Reading Workshop is Freak the Mighty written by Rodman Philbrick.  Max, a struggling reader is placed with the ...

Have you ever thought about what the writer was feeling?  In most instances, great writing is the result of situations or problems that spar...

The writer sits at his desk with a purpose in mind.  He just finished a chapter and then he reads back over it.  He puts himself into your s...

Effective readers constantly connect to the text as they read.  Their inner voice  relates the text to their life, other books they have rea...

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 ...