There’s usually a point in the school year when we need to slow down and check in with how students are managing their reading strategies. After explicit teaching and modeling of strategies, I sometimes have a habit of pushing ahead …
When I began using the reader’s workshop model, I knew that there were lots of things I would need to change and prepare for to make it successful in my classroom. Besides changing my own form of instruction from whole …
Does anyone else experience that magical transformation that their students seem to make every year during winter break? The one that shows up when they return during January and all of a sudden they can read entire books and write …
