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ISBN-13: 978-0982664438
8.5 x 11 | Softcover | 144 pages
​Published August 9, 2011
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Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop
A Step-by-Step Guide

Laura Candler
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.

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.

Highlights of Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop:

  • Step-by-step directions for the first ten days of Reading Workshop
  • How to upgrade your basic Reading Workshop to a Power Reading Workshop
  • How to differentiate reading instruction using the Reading Power Tools
  • A list of suggested books for reading mini-lessons
  • Hints for organizing reading instruction
  • Tips for reading aloud to your students
  • Information about how to conduct reading conferences
  • Ready-to-print activity pages to make each step easy to implement
  • Customizable online forms
  • Special activities like Book Buzz and Magazine Power Hour
  • How to help students set appropriate reading goals

​This book is a must for any teacher who wants to use the Reading Workshop method of instruction.
“Teachers can implement this program any time of the year easily with Laura's step-by-step guide. I've bought tons of books about teaching reading in my 23 years of classroom teaching,
but this one takes the cake! ”
Meredith C. Fisher

"Must have if you are doing or planning on implementing Readers' Workshop. I am a literacy coach and would highly recommend this book. It will get you set up and take you through step-by-step how to begin and maintain a workshop approach to reading. LOVE IT!!!! Don't hesitate to buy. Tremendous guide.”
D. Hasselquist

“I highly recommend this book that cuts right through all the long and complicated information on Reading Workshop as a practical, down-to-earth, thoughtful, field tested, teacher approved handy guide for setting up a Reading Workshop students and teachers will understand and like.”

Carolyn Wilhelm, MS Gifted Ed., MS K-12 Curriculum and Instruction, and National Board Certified Teacher