Joyce Armstrong Carroll

This should not really be considered a 'book'. A pamphlet, or a brochure, maybe, but I don't even know if it even has the number of pages/words per page needed to be considered a novella. It has good information in it, some parts, but there are no more than 100 words per page. The actual 'workshop' stuff ends on page 100, the rest are graphic organizers and PICTURES that are too small to regenerate, anyway. The book talks about things we should do in my classroom, and I guess I would sum up the R/W Workshop to "Independent Practice". I feel like that what it tells me is a workshop is simply what I do in class already. It seems natural to me that different students are working on different things. I perhaps am too harsh on the book because it tells me that my want/need for students to behave and pay attention is a need for "sameness". I would LOVE to put my students in groups, however, they cannot be in groups without talking (undoubtedly a fault of mine). In short, I would LOVE to have my classroom look like the classroom in this book...I am an AVID reader, and I will write, but I simply do not know how to take this theory and put it into reality of my classroom.… (más)

This should not really be considered a 'book'. A pamphlet, or a brochure, maybe, but I don't even know if it even has the number of pages/words per page needed to be considered a novella. It has good information in it, some parts, but there are no more than 100 words per page. The actual 'workshop' stuff ends on page 100, the rest are graphic organizers and PICTURES that are too small to regenerate, anyway. The book talks about things we should do in my classroom, and I guess I would sum up the R/W Workshop to "Independent Practice". I feel like that what it tells me is a workshop is simply what I do in class already. It seems natural to me that different students are working on different things. I perhaps am too harsh on the book because it tells me that my want/need for students to behave and pay attention is a need for "sameness". I would LOVE to put my students in groups, however, they cannot be in groups without talking (undoubtedly a fault of mine). In short, I would LOVE to have my classroom look like the classroom in this book...I am an AVID reader, and I will write, but I simply do not know how to take this theory and put it into reality of my classroom.… (más)