Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days: A Month-by-Month Guide to Effective Instruction

by Frank Serafini, Suzette Serafini-Youngs

Frank Serafini has written extensively on the reading workshop, and in talks around the country, he's answered the tough questions about teaching through this powerful medium. Now in Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days , his most practical book to date, Serafini answers your most frequently asked questions and shows you the daily ins and outs of the workshop. Picking up where his bestselling titles The Reading Workshop and Lessons in Comprehension left off, Serafini gives you month-by-month strategies for running a reading workshop across an entire school year. He provides everything you need to change the way intermediate and middle level students think and talk about reading, including: In addition, classroom teacher Suzette Serafini-Youngs illustrates Serafini's ideas with "Windows on the Workshop," classroom vignettes that bridge theory to practice and demonstrate with precision the teacher's role in workshop-based reading instruction. Whether you're a thirty-year veteran or a novice teacher, go Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days with Frank Serafini and take your students on a memorable journey into literacy.

Genres: Professional Development, Education, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2006

About the author

Dr. Frank Serafini is an author, illustrator, photographer, educator, musician, and a Professor of Literacy Education and Children’s Literature at Arizona State University.
Frank has published seven books with Heinemann, including: The Reading Workshop, Reading Aloud and Beyond, Lessons in Comprehension, and Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days and Classroom Reading Assessments which will be available in 2010. In addition, Frank has published Reading the Visual (2014) and Beyond the Visual (2022) with Teachers College Press.
In 2008, Frank began writing and illustrating a series of non-fiction picturebooks focusing on nature with Kids Can Press. The Looking Closely series contains books about the desert, garden, pond, rainforest, shore and forest. In 2009, Looking Closely Along the Shore won an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice Award, and Honorable Mention from the Society of School Librarians International.
A true “Renaissance Man,” Frank loves to travel, sing, play guitar, cook, draw, read, visit art galleries, and watch movies. His workshops are packed with important information and practical ideas, all delivered with a great sense of humor.

Reviews

[I Contain]

Great quality suggestions for structuring the workshop. Will definitely use next year!

[Annalisa Ponti]

Sono contenta che sia stato tradotto in italiano. È un libro molto utile e molto pratico.

[Clickety]

Wordier than I like for the amount of theory/strategy it examines; not particularly thoroughly, either. Also, my classes are five months, not nine, so the pacing doesn't work.

[Beth]

There were some good ideas but I've found other books and authors who write about this topic much more engaging.

[Eva]

I love this book! Chapter 2 is going to figure heavily into my September plan. Frank and Suzette share my philosophy of guiding students along a path to loving reading.

[Heather Wall]

A decent review of reading workshop, but not as reader-friendly as many professional texts I've read.