Middle School Café - Empowering Secondary ELA Teachers
Are you an ELA teacher striving to help your middle and high school students become confident, capable readers and writers? Middle School Cafe is your go-to podcast for practical strategies, proven methods, and inspiration to close the reading gap and unlock every student's potential.
In each episode, I will share real-world insights and actionable tips drawn from years of classroom experience to help you meet students where they are and guide them toward growth. From implementing the workshop model to fostering student ownership of learning, you'll discover ideas and strategies that make a real impact.
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Middle School Café - Empowering Secondary ELA Teachers
The Power of Reader’s Workshop in the Middle School Classroom
How would your classroom look if your students' reading levels increased, or if you began hearing from parents that your students were voluntarily reading at home, or they arrived at your classroom asking to read.
This was the experience I had when I moved to a new school district that had implemented Reader’s Workshop.
I was initially skeptical that Reader’s Workshop would work. If I let students choose their own books how would that lead to them becoming a stronger reader? Where was the teaching in this model? How would I know where every student was in the learning process?
Looking back it’s crazy how skeptical I was because now I can’t imagine teaching reading any other way!
Join me as I share what Reader’s workshop is and what Reader’s Workshop is not. What the 5 key components to Reader’s Workshop are and how they benefit your students and what the real magic part to Reader’s Workshop is.
What you will learn in this episode:
- What is Reader’s Workshop
- Why I believe so strongly in Reader’s Workshop
- 5 key components that make up Reader’s Workshop
- How students will utilize Reader’s Workshop to take ownership over their reading
- The real magic behind Reader’s Workshop
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