[MOSAIC] AR and Reading Workshop

[Laura Candler]

Hi!

I just remembered that I have something on my website (www.lauracandler.com) 
that might be of interest to those of you who are using a reading workshop 
approach and who include AR as a part of your workshop. If you scroll down 
on the home page of my site, you'll see the Literary Lessons section. Go to 
that page and click on Reading Workshop. This page explains how I used to do 
reading workshop until my district mandated strict adherence to our new 
basal reader (let's not even go THERE!). Anyway, there's a Reading Rubric I 
developed that I used in conjunction with AR and my Home Reading Log. The 
Reading Rubric helped me take the emphasis off points and actually required 
students to do a certain amount of non-AR reading. I also describe an action 
research study that I did that year for graduate school which showed that my 
students made excellent gains in just 2 months using this approach.

Laura Candler
Fayetteville, NC
Visit Teaching Resources at www.lauracandler.com.