Hang in there! Your hard will will pay off when your students are carrying their books around and taking them out to read in other classes because they can't put them down! I taught 7th and 8th grade reading in the same way for many years and the students were looped--meaning I had them as seven graders for semester and then the next year as eighth graders for one semester...it wasn't ideal but I found they remember a lot of what we had done and the procedures for workshop and the strategies I had taught them. So in eighth grade we didn't have to spend much time on those things. However, now my district has elliminated Reading class and gone with a Literacy class in which the teacher teaches writing and reading...but sadly we lost even more literacy minutes this way. When you look at that...your one semester looks good! When you see someone peering in the door...invite them in to be a guest reader or listener! Can you share some of your strategies with content teachers so the strategies can transfer to other classes. We have the same thinking and reading strategically poster in every classroom now so that we are using the same terms and reinforcing the strategies everywhere. Granted not everyone does it...but the poster is in every room. Kay
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