Hi! I just remembered that I have something on my website (www.lauracandler.com) that might be of interest to those of you who are using a reading workshop approach and who include AR as a part of your workshop. If you scroll down on the home page of my site, you'll see the Literary Lessons section. Go to that page and click on Reading Workshop. This page explains how I used to do reading workshop until my district mandated strict adherence to our new basal reader (let's not even go THERE!). Anyway, there's a Reading Rubric I developed that I used in conjunction with AR and my Home Reading Log. The Reading Rubric helped me take the emphasis off points and actually required students to do a certain amount of non-AR reading. I also describe an action research study that I did that year for graduate school which showed that my students made excellent gains in just 2 months using this approach.
Laura Candler Fayetteville, NC Visit Teaching Resources at www.lauracandler.com. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
