Reading Workshop Series

Reading is the most controversial and politicized subject in our curriculum. As such, more misinformation exists about reading than in all other areas combined. Our reading workshops are designed to help you sort through confusing and conflicting claims and develop your own powerful and practical understanding that helps you get the results you need without resorting to boring basals, costly consumables, tedious testing, or awkward and unsatisfying scripted instruction.

Strategies For Non-Fiction Reading
Across the Curriculum

We see it all the time: kids who read pretty well in Language Arts but demonstrate significant problems when reading in other subject areas. For kids who struggle to read literature at their grade level, content area reading is even more daunting to the point of being nearly impossible for some when they hit middle and high school subjects in history, math, and the sciences. What’s the solution? A set of powerful strategies that address the specific problems posed by non-fiction texts. These are tools any reader working in any subject can use to be more efficient and more effective. Non-fiction texts make up most of the reading we pursue in our daily lives. Give your students the information they need to be successful.

Comprehensive Comprehension:
A Practical and Powerful Approach

Explore techniques that can dramatically improve student reading comprehension without traditional comprehension tests, tedious comprehension questions, dreary worksheets, and other inauthentic unmotivating methods. You’ll be introduced to a wide variety of powerful comprehension strategies and easy-to-implement mini-lessons, all based on a practical definition of comprehension that simplifies instruction while improving student performance at the same time. You’ll be amazed at what young readers can do when they have the best strategies for understanding what they read, and how easy comprehension is to teach when you have the tools you need to teach it well.

Book Talks, Book Reviews,
and Better Reading Response

The most common response activity that adult readers pursue is book talk. Why not teach kids how to have these same authentic, mature, in-depth discussions? Similarly, in the literate world outside of school, book reviews are the most common form of written reader response. Why not take kids beyond limited and inauthentic book reports, to rich, lively literary analysis in a way that increases both their motivation and analytic skills? This interesting and entertaining workshop shows you how.