One book that helped me tremendously with the set up of reading and writing workshop was The Daily Five. The book gives explicit guidelines for procedures. I do not use the entire system but the procedures and the timeline to introduce procedures really helped me and my students form a routine that was self sustaining. Substitute teachers would comment that if left to do their thing, the class ran itself. Once procedures were set I could work on refining conferencing, guided groups and book talks. I then could use the basal in various ways depending on subject matter, skills, integrating science and social studies, or in small focused groups. Hope this helps.
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