The Reading Workshop

Green pants and an orange shirt today?  Probably not.  So if you take care to not dress tacky, be careful what you do to your blog. W...

Do you want to be a STAR?  Do you want recognition as an Outstanding Student Blogger?  Would you like to have an award like this on your blo...

Parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, could you spare a few minutes a week to help the students in Reading Workshop?  All you need is...

We are beginning to focus on poetry in Reading Workshop.  The best poetry sparks some sort of emotion within the reader.  A good poem shoul...

How would you feel if you had seven students that wrote on the weekend?  This wasn't an assignment, and they didn't get extra credit...

Want a fun activity in Reading Workshop where you do a lot of work and don't get any credit and you have to do it on your own time?  If...

After all of the talk about blog comments, I thought I would share a couple of good examples from Reading Workshop students. On a stude...

Is your writing more like 1 or 2? 1.  Due ewe no you're homophones?  Win u our threw righting, due yew no if there write?.   or...

This is being reposted from Megan's Thoughts .    Hello again, its Megan! I just wanted to remind everyone that Friday, October ...

Students in Reading Workshop are building their blogs, post by post.  In addition, many are taking the time to comment on their peers...

Students weekly  Read at Home  assignment rewards extra effort. Students choose a book that they want to read from home, the library, or the...

The students in Reading Workshop just completed an interdisciplinary project for social studies and language arts.  They had to research a...

OK, so you are sitting here in Reading Workshop during SSR (Sustained Silent Reading).  I look up from my book and I see you fidgeting in...

Most everyone has heard the saying, hard work will pay off in the end.  Yesterday, students took the Study Island Benchmark Test, and it ...

I am so excited.  We got in some books that we ordered two weeks ago.  And the best part is one of the books is the newest from one of my...

Recently I asked students to complete a survey  about the importance of reading with a parent or grandparent.   As I looked at some of th...

Students, please complete this survey with the help of a parent or grandparent. You can see responses HERE Loading...

It was during SSR and I started watching her read.  This girl had chosen one of the best books in the book room.  She was reading Awakeni...

As published writers, there is no excuse for mistakes.  Sister Salad  points out the reason most of us take writing correctly so seriously....

Students in Reading Workshop have begun blogging as part of their language arts class.  The first assignment was to write about the main cha...