Guiding Readers and Writers: Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy

I will use it as a reference for guided reading and writing in my classroom. The authors have been quoted many times for their effective methods and extensive research in improving literacy in children.

Love this book, it puts it all together for you in an easy way to understand. Reading, writing and word study....love it!!!!!

This book changed my life as a literacy teacher by getting me to really think about what I was doing to teach my students how to read, about words, and writing. Great vignette at the beginning of the book to support your "overall picture" of a workshop classroom, ideas for management (for you and the students), and setting up reading journals. They do provide a guideline weekly schedule that I was able to successfully use as a model while dipping my feet into workshop. Highly suggest using in conjunction with Calkin's Units of Study for writing/reading. Easily adaptable with Words their Way and using for content integration with social studies & science. Even if you never try out Workshop or have any interest in it, I suggest teachers give it a read for a fresh perspective in teaching and learning.

You simply cannot start a reading and writing workshop in your upper elementary classroom without having read this book. This book is more than a how-to. It includes so many resources that you can use for your workshop. It helped me to design my students readers notebooks. and even included template blackline masters that I could photo copy and paste into the students notebooks. Additionally, every single chapter includes a focus on how to reach struggling readers and writers. I am not a parent. But if I had a child in the upper elementary grades, I would want his/her teacher using this book to design their literacy curriculum.

If you are attempting to teach struggling readers and writers this book is a must have. The format is simple, easy to understand and it is filled with dynamite resources ready to be used. There are forms for writers workshop, readers workshop, mini lessons, types of writing, writing logs, conference logs, self evaluations for teachers and students, a word list and leveled book list. It also provides for Professional Development, without added expense. I really think each teacher should have access this this great resource!