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In House E-Mail / Correspondence
- Response to Amanda Reading Workshop.
My name is Amanda and I am currently working on getting my masters and
becoming a reading specialist. I am in my third year of teaching 6th grade
reading at Pershing Middle School. Although I've been with the same school,
grade level, and content area for three years; I must say that it is never
boring. I'm constantly trying new things and learning from my mistakes. My
teaching style has shifted drastically over the past three years. During
my first year, the goal was to survive and the method was to give them so
much work to do that they couldn't cause problems. I was incredibly bored
and I know that my students were too. I have learned that I have to enjoy
what we're doing, because if I don't, my students won't either. I am gradually
moving towards the reading workshop approach and have been using literature
circles. My biggest
struggle if figuring out how to have an effective reading workshop with 30-34
kids in the classroom. I'm hoping that by the end of this course I will be able
to solve that problem.
Amanda, For me reading work shop goes best when all my students have the
books they want and are interested in. Most of my kids are a little bored
of the books in the school library, and my classroom library only kept
them interested for the first month of school. Every 3 weeks i go to
the downtown library and check out 60-80 books for use in reading work
shop / Free Voluntary Reading.
You have not heard such a commotion as they scramble to pick out books
on new book day, they give me a list of the TYPE (genre) of the books they
want, first second third choices one author and one series name. This is
great because it is like a mini Metalinguistic interest self assessment.
I think i could manage 45 kids if i had to, as long as i have good "fresh" books...
Justin
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