Thanks for your compliments! You mentioned in your post that you feel like you sometimes fall short of holding your students accountable in your reading workshop. I felt this way too when I first began implementing RW in my own classroom. Check out my "Assessment in the Reading Workshop" post for tons of helpful tips about how I hold my students accountable. Here is a link to the post: http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2009/11/assessment-reading-workshop.html
Calandra,
Thanks for your compliments! You mentioned in your post that you feel like you sometimes fall short of holding your students accountable in your reading workshop. I felt this way too when I first began implementing RW in my own classroom. Check out my "Assessment in the Reading Workshop" post for tons of helpful tips about how I hold my students accountable. Here is a link to the post: http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2009/11/assessment-reading-workshop.html
-Beth