The Reading Workshop

The students in 604 have been infected by Spiderwick.  Over half of the class has read at least part of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black...

Students recently wrote a blog post about how the setting impacts the book they are reading.  We discussed the setting in the current read ...

As the grading period comes to an end, please count and record the number of your posts and comments. Loading...

Starting today there is  zero tolerance for mistakes in writing .  The school year is half over.  Students in  Reading Workshop   have ...

Reading Workshop students, please copy your Element Essay and Element poem from your blog and paste them into this form to be graded. Loa...

I watched as each row was dismissed.  After a few minutes, I decided it was about 50/50.  I didn't see a pattern based on age, dress,...

Students will be doing an interdisciplinary research/writing project in Reading Workshop and science.  Students will choose an element fr...

I had an interesting conversation with two students last Friday.  They were telling me how this other class was and how students in there...

A lot of Reading Workshop students have been reading The Maze Runner written by James Dashner.  The movie is supposed to be out in 2013.  ...

What do the three students in the picture have in common?  All three were reluctant readers that have found success through the choice of...

So you get a first draft of a poem and it seems pretty good.  Now what?  Is it ready to publish?  Everything is spelled right.  It makes se...

The Reading Workshop Poetry Rubric Component 4/A 3/B 2/ C 1/D ...

Some of the best poems are often those that are inspired by another poem.  The concept is to take the framework of a poem you like, and...

Today we will ask the experts.  Students in Reading Workshop, what makes a good poem?  Or, what makes a poem good?  As you looked through...

Cut out all those words.  This is poetry so you don't need them.  In fact, if the word doesn't do something to clarify meaning, o...

Is your poetry alive?  Or does it just lay there squashed and ragged, like a mushy apple smashed on the road?  Maybe it needs a little ...

Last year students came up with all kinds of ideas about why they couldn't do poetry.  In their minds they were thinking, Poetry is N...

As we begin to study poetry, take a minute and compare.  Does either poem describe you as a poet?

Student blog post titles from Reading Workshop students have been a little on the lame side lately.  What's a teacher to do but have ...

After using Wordpress to host student blogs for the last four years, Reading Workshop students will be switching to Edublogs .  Wordpress h...