The Literacy Studio

"In The Literacy Studio, the author reconsiders our most basic assumptions about the "traditional" reader's and writer's workshop approach and structure. The author proposes an alternative workshop structure, one teachers can adjust, amend, tinker with. A literacy block that is flexible enough to allow teachers to be directly responsive to your kids' needs. She addresses planning, scheduling, conferring, differentiating, record keeping, and reflecting so that students can build their knowledge of reading by writing and vice versa. She discusses how to maximize students' choice in how they spend their time and engagement as independent readers and writers. The Literacy Studio takes teachers and children beyond the workshop structures that we've used for many years by maximizing time for active learning because reading and writing instruction is integrated"--