A Guide to the Reading Workshop crystallizes the reading workshop. After detailing the essential principles of reading workshop instruction, Lucy describes how to develop engaging minilessons that develop the skills of proficient readers. In the chapters that follow, Lucy presents different ways to lead small-group work and one-to-one conferences. In addition to describing the predictable methods and structures of a reading workshop, select chapters consider various ways to assess readers and track their development, how to use data to inform your instruction, and how to differentiate instruction and prepare for standardized reading tests.

[v. 1.] Essentials of reading instruction -- The big picture of a reading workshop -- Skills and trategies of proficient readers -- Assessing readers: schoolwide systems for tracking progress -- Minilessons: the methods that undergird explicit instruction -- Conferring with readers: intense, intimate, responsive teaching -- Small-group work: developing a richer repertoire of methods -- Reading aloud: the lifeblood of the reading workshop -- Writing about reading: deepening and clarifying ideas about texts -- Differentiation to support all readers -- Standards and standardized texts: smarter, not more, test prep -- Planning a year-long curriculum for teaching reading -- About the Units of study series. [v. 2.] Getting started [DVD] / Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan -- Minilessons ; Conferences ; Read-alouds ; Book clubs [DVD] / Lucy Calkins, Kathleen Tolan.