Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

"Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop" offers an easy classroom-tested method for using Reading Workshop in your own classroom. You'll learn how to motivate readers by providing time for independent reading and reading conferences. As a result, your students will learn to love reading, and you'll improve reading test scores at the same time! In addition, this book includes a dozen "Power Tools" that allow you to differentiate your reading instruction for all students.<br /><br />The strategies have been thoroughly tested in grades 2 through 6 and will work well at those levels with little modification. Middle School and High School teachers may also be able to use the strategies, but they may need to modify them slightly for their students or their teaching situation.<br /><br />Highlights of "Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide":<br /><br />• Step-by-step directions for the first 10 days of Reading Workshop<br />• How to upgrade your basic Reading Workshop to a Power Reading Workshop<br />• How to differentiate reading instruction using the Reading Power Tools<br />• A list of suggested books for reading mini lessons<br />• Hints for organizing reading instruction<br />• Tips for reading aloud to your students<br />• Information about how to conduct reading conferences<br />• Ready-to-print activity pages to make each step easy-to-implement<br />• Customizable online forms<br />• Special activities like Book Buzz and Magazine Power Hour<br />• How to help students set appropriate reading goals<br /><br />ABOUT THE KINDLE EDITION<br /><br />Every effort has been made to make this Kindle edition of Laura Candler’s Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide as user-friendly and easy to read as possible. There are a few differences from the print version that you should be aware of.<br /><br />There are many student handouts in Laura Candler’s Power Reading Workshop that simply cannot be formatted for the Kindle edition. These handouts are available as downloadable PDFs and are marked in the Kindle file with an icon.<br /><br />A word about links: Clicking on any of the entries in the Table of Contents will automatically move you to that specific page in the book. Clicking on any of the websites specifically cited in the book will link you directly to that website on the Internet. Any other linked text will be bolded and underlined.