Table of contents -- Introduction: the journey begins -- Summer vacation preparing for the reading workshop -- September: Invitations to reading and literature -- October: Coming to know ourselves as readers -- November: Negotiating responses to literature -- December: Exploring expository texts -- January: Making our thinking visible -- February: The rhythms of poetry and literature -- March: The role of literature across the curriculum -- April: Literature and social issues -- May: Celebrating our literate lives -- Afterword: the journey ends for now.