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Category Archives: reading workshop

Rethinking School Reading

With a little over 2 weeks of school left, we are finalizing things, making ready for the grand summer release. Today I asked my sixth graders to reflect on their growth as readers, and to write about what they’d learned (if anything) about themselves or books, based on what they read in school this year. [...]

Convergences: Catching Fire in a Deluge

This is the first in a series of posts in which Dina Strasser, who blogs at The Line, and I correspond about our experiences using a workshop approach to reading instruction: Dina, I like your suggestion that we use our blogs to compare notes about teaching in reading workshop classrooms this year. I appreciate your [...]

Getting Organized

We’re into the second week of school here this year. I’m still in the early getting-to-know-you period with my class, and we are all more or less on our best behavior, but judging from what I’ve seen so far this is going to be a good year. It’s my 27th in the classroom, and you’d [...]