The Reading Workshop

Over the last several years, I have written several posts describing Study Island and how it is used in the classroom. If you have a quest...

Potential --Capable of being but not yet in existence; the inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or coming into being. ...

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A couple of girls had a problem getting along yesterday. Afterwards, I thought about it and I realized they hadn't yet realized what b...

Students' Weekly Reading Assignment rewards effort. Students choose a book that they want to read from home, the library, or the bookm...

Tonight is Open House at Salt Creek Intermediate School. Welcome to all our students and parents. The start of each new year is an excitin...

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Spell Check is a great tool that helps all writers produce cleaner writing. However, writers still need to proofread their own work. The p...

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Reading Workshop students, will you take a minute today to say something to make someone else's life better? Before you say yes, think ...

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I had this conversation about poetry with a student: Student:   I have trouble with what to write. Me: Really? Student: Yeah, I don...

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Poems are never finished. Eventually though, we just stop working on them. Naomi Shihab Nye  said: If a teacher told me to revise,...