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Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days: A Month-by-Month Guide to Effective Instruction

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Reading Workshop has been around forever, and I have used it forever, but the organization needed a bit of refreshing. It was great to read F. Serafini's work as it shed new light on areas that I felt had become complacent. The way he organizes this text was really helpful to see an entire year at a glance, with ideas and examples to help with one's own organization. I will definately be using some of his ideas this next year. If you are just getting started with the idea of Reader's Workshop, you will love this work because it is a template on what to do.

This book is a companion book to Serafini's "Lessons in Comprehension". You do not need to have that book in order to use this one, but because minilessons in "Lessons in Comprehension" are cited throughout the book I would recommend using them together. If you've read a lot about balanced literacy it does repeat a lot, however, there are useful new ideas like poetry discussion groups.

This book gives tips and suggestions for the beginning workshop teacher. Ideas for constructing mini-lessons, organizing books and classrooms, and month by month suggestions for topics to use to make your workshop a success.

Just what I needed to help me through my first year of Reading Workshop....and I've been teaching 14 years!!!

Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.