Juli Kendall's Weekly
Reading Workshop Journal
INDEX
A MiddleWeb Listserv Project
MiddleWeb invited interested persons from our MiddleWeb
Discussion List and others who visited our website to join in a year-long
discussion about struggling middle grades readers. Juli Kendall, a reading
teacher in Long Beach, California, helped moderate the discussion. Juli
also kept a weekly journal of her own work with fifth-graders who were held
back after they failed to meet the district's minimum reading requirement
for promotion to sixth grade.
Find out more about our project at our Reading/Writing
Workshop homepage.
Juli's Weekly Journals for 2001-02
Background about Juli Kendall and her Reading/Writing
Workshop adventure
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Week #01 -- Journeys Begin with a Map
Week #02 -- How We Began Our Readers Workshop
Week #03 -- The Heart of the Matter: Independent
Reading and Assessments
Week #04 -- What Does It Mean to Examine Student
Work in Reading?
Week #05 -- We're all growing together in Reading
Workshop
Week #06 -- Current events influence our Read-Aloud
selections
Week #07 -- Leti's Journey: Becoming a Reader
Week #08 -- The Critical Connection Between Reading
and Writing
Week #09 -- Now the Hard Part -- Comprehension and
Fluency
Week #10 -- Retelling -- and Assessing from Rubrics
Week #11 -- Making Connections: Flash Bulbs Go Off
- for the Teachers!
Week #12 -- Introducing Series and Early Chapter
Books
Week #13 -- New Words and Vocabulary Development
Week #14 -- Helping Students Celebrate Reading
Week #15 -- Struggling Readers and the Magic of
Poetry
Week #16 -- Envisionments: Helping Students Improve
Literary Understanding
Week #17 -- Using a Rubric to Improve Literary Conversations
Week #18 -- Helping Students Find Books in Which
They See Themselves
Week #19 -- Getting Ready to Teach the Questioning
Strategy
Week #20 -- Our Kids Get into Questioning and Learn
on a New, Absorbing Level
Week #21 -- Forget Flying a White Flag. This Will
Be a Fight to the Finish.
Week #22 -- Exploring the Riddles in Guided Reading
Week #23 -- Probable Indicators: Getting Ready for
the Benchmark Test
Week #24 -- Integrating Test Preparation into Reading
Instruction
Week #25 -- Visualizing What We Read: Different
Strokes for Different Folks
Week #26 -- Dipping into Donovan's Jar: New Ways
to Learn Words
Week #27 -- Favorite Authors Can "Light a Fire"
Under Students
Week #28 -- Shared Reading, Karaoke Style!
Week #29 -- No Dark Sarcasm: It's Our Job to Make
It Accessible
Week #30 -- Jeffrey Wilhelm: The Joy of Discovering
a Clear-Thinking Expert!
Week #31 -- Book Clubs Are All the Rage in Our Class
Week #32 -- Leti's Search for Gold - The Importance
and Power of Non-Fiction
Week #33 -- Confessions of a Non- Non-Fiction Teacher
Week #34 -- A Road Map for Content-Area Reading
Week #35 -- Reading Assessment: And Now for Something
Completely Different
Week #36 -- English-Language Learners and the Reading
Workshop
Week #37 -- Student Surveys Help Us Fine-Tune for
Next Year
Week #38 -- Final Reflections as We Do the Sixth
Grade Dance
Graduation Update -- Balloons, Flowers, and Flashing
Cameras!
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