Publisher's Synopsis
The Guide to the Reading Workshop: Middle School Grades offers a comprehensive but concise introduction to:
- the need for this series
- research on what adolescent readers need
- ways to launch and sustain independent reading
- a big-picture introduction to the reading workshop
- the architecture of minilessons
- classroom management tips and strategies
- levels of text complexity
- conferring with readers and providing transferrable feedback
- small-group work
- writing about reading
- practical help for book clubs
- instructional Read Aloud
- the special importance of nonfiction reading
- supporting English learners in reading workshop
