Future of Reading: Choose your own books - Reading Workshops
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 31 Aug, 2009Spotted in the New York Times Book Supplement.
Instead of assigning a novel to her 7th and 8th graders, this teacher allowed her class to choose their own books, discuss them individually with the teacher and one another, and keep detailed journals about their reading.
According to the story, this is "part of a movement to revolutionize the way literature is taught in America’s schools. While there is no clear consensus among English teachers, variations on the approach, known as reading workshop, are catching on."
(This article is the 4th in a series called Future of Reading. The links to the other three articles is found under the heading "Related" in the story)