Introduction to Reading Workshop

Are you looking to implement reading workshop in your primary classroom, but need to learn more about what it is? This blog post explains the structure of reading workshop in this first of eight post series.This post is the first in an 8 part series that I will write about implementing reading workshop into your classroom.

Today, for my first post in this series, I will write and introduction about reading workshop and dive further into the different components of reading workshop as the weeks progress.

To say that I am passionate about reading instruction is an understatement. As a classroom teacher for more than 14 years, I have seen the pendulum swing from different reading initiatives, programs, and basal series. Implementing a workshop approach to teaching reading (and writing and math, for that matter!) is one of the single most important factors that literally transformed my teaching. It was only about 5 years ago that I started to learn about and implement a reading workshop approach in my classroom.