The Reading Workshop - Creating Spaces for Instruction, Dialogue & Interpretation

Creating Spaces for Instruction, Dialogue & Interpretation

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Fellow Educators,
I have created this NING to provide elementary and middle school teachers with a forum for discussing issues in literacy education.

Please feel free to invite like-minded educators to join us. Each member is invited to contribute to the posted discussions and other various entries or to start discussions of their own.

The goal of this network is to support one another in our efforts to create effective instructional practices and spaces for for readers to interrogate, analyze and interpret texts and visual images. This is an interactive site, so interact!

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New Technology! Please advise

Started by Jennifer Sniadecki Jan 13.

Taking Time Out 1 Reply

Started by Jennifer Sniadecki. Last reply by Rebecca Van Homan Dec 27, 2011.

Position Statement 1 Reply

Started by Lettice Pelotte. Last reply by Jennifer Sniadecki Oct 13, 2011.

It's Summertime! Time to Start Planning for School! 1 Reply

Started by Jennifer Sniadecki. Last reply by Jennifer Sniadecki Jul 18, 2011.

Planning a longer reading workshop 1 Reply

Started by Jennifer Sniadecki. Last reply by Jennifer Sniadecki Sep 3, 2011.

Author Study 5 Replies

Started by Kelly Clancy. Last reply by Kelly Clancy Mar 21, 2011.

Book Clubs are a Blast! 5 Replies

Started by Jennifer Sniadecki. Last reply by Jen Cass Feb 6, 2011.

Online Literature Discussion Boards 9 Replies

Started by Amy E. Mamerow. Last reply by Jen Cass Feb 6, 2011.

Happy Holidays! from Jennifer

Started by Jennifer Sniadecki Dec 14, 2010.

Reader's Workshop in earlier grades 2 Replies

Started by Jodie Crowe. Last reply by Jennifer Sniadecki Sep 3, 2011.

Blog Posts

Writing Blog Entries to Increase Student Achievement

Posted by Jennifer Sniadecki on December 28, 2011 at 6:26pm

Setting Expectations for Discussions

Posted by Frank Serafini on August 29, 2011 at 6:36am — 1 Comment

Back to School: Two Important Concepts

Posted by Frank Serafini on August 16, 2011 at 10:22am — 2 Comments

Assessment for What?

Posted by Frank Serafini on October 12, 2010 at 7:00am — 2 Comments

New Article: Reconceptualizing the Four Resources Model

Posted by Frank Serafini on August 25, 2010 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

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Writing Blog Entries to Increase Student Achievement

"Student Achievement"-- A phrase I hear or read every day. What are the motivating activities that can help students to increase their overall achievement?I think maybe writing blog entries can help, although our school district is not quite technologically advanced yet. I wonder how I can use blogs to help students practice literary response and increase their writing skills at the same time.Writing blog entries is an authentic, motivating way to record thinking, practice new writing skills,…See More

Blog post by Jennifer Sniadecki Dec 29, 2011

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Rebecca Van Homan replied to Jennifer Sniadecki's discussion 'Taking Time Out'

Happy New Year to you, too. It really is a good time to reflect where our kids are after one term with us. I am still working on how to give individual input with each child as they are learning to read... I feel guided reading is not…

Dec 27, 2011

Jennifer Sniadecki replied to Lettice Pelotte's discussion 'Position Statement'

Lettice, Thank you for sharing with us. I appreciate your utopian classroom. Students should be taught to THINK. I am working with struggling readers this year in classrooms and in small groups. They are not used to hearing the purpose of the…

Oct 13, 2011

Position Statement

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Discussion posted by Lettice Pelotte Oct 12, 2011

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Lori Ulewicz commented on Frank Serafini's blog post 'Assessment for What?'

Your post took me back to an article you wrote in 2006. I revisit the thoughts often. The opening paragraph stated: "Let me begin this column with an asserting; the quatlity of the classroom teacher, not the instrucitonal program, is the…

Sep 16, 2011

Jennifer Sniadecki replied to Jennifer Sniadecki's discussion 'Planning a longer reading workshop'

I look forward to discussing the Indiana mandates with you during the ISRA Fall Conference in September, Frank! See you there!

Sep 3, 2011

Jennifer Sniadecki replied to Jodie Crowe's discussion 'Reader's Workshop in earlier grades'

I don't teach the lower grades, so I probably cannot help much, but I complete decoding activities within strategy groups inside and outside of "workshop time." Some resource books I know are Word Journeys (Ganske), Small Group…

Sep 3, 2011

Jennifer Sniadecki commented on Frank Serafini's blog post 'Setting Expectations for Discussions'

Thank you, Frank, for the new year reminders of best practices of teaching. We must teach our children to talk and listen in the classroom, and have high expectations for what we see and hear. One of the interesting methods I have used in the…

Aug 30, 2011

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