Introduction to Reading Workshop

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.