Reading Workshop

My children's book - Looking Closely Through the Forest is now available as an E-Book: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/looking-closely-through-forest/id941161388?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Here is an excerpt from a blog I wrote curated by Larry Ferlazzo of Ed Week Available at: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2015/06/response_ways_to_help_students_develop_digital_portfolios.html Print-based student portfolios have been used, misused, discarded, and reintroduced by many schools and districts over the past thirty years. Keeping track of students' work, storing these collections, evaluating them, and using them to drive instruction has had its ups and downs in literacy education. Online and digital portfolios have been used with similar outcomes in elementary, high school, and college settings. The biggest challenge for portfolio advocates is whether to apply normative or criterion-referenced standards for evaluating the contents of students' portfolios by creating rubrics or other grading processes, or allowing individual students to use portfolios to document and demonstrate their learning and development over time. The second app...

Vermont Reads Summer Institute ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… August 3, 4, 5, 2015 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Keynote Address: Reading Workshop 2.0: Supporting Readers in the Digital Age by Frank Serafini This presentation will focus on the changes happening in reading instruction in light of the Digital Revolution. We will look at the features of new texts being used in contemporary classrooms, the lessons necessary for comprehending digital and multimodal texts, and the digital resources available for reading, sharing, discussing and analyzing print-based, digital and multimodal texts. A framework will be shared that demonstrates how the reading workshop structure provides instructional opportunities and reading strategies to help students comprehend and interrogate digital and multimodal texts. Various online resources, and student examples will be shared. Dr. Frank Serafini is an awa...