Internationally renowned literacy expert Dr. Patricia L. Scharer, former president of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, and her co-authors, all members of the The Ohio State University Literacy Collaborative® founded by Dr. Gay Su Pinnell, demystify the reader’s workshop—and so much more. In this monumental new book, you’ll learn how to create an environment that supports both independent reading and writing as well as interactive, shared, and guided reading and writing. Scharer and her co-authors, among the most knowledgeable and respected literacy educators in the world, share in practical and illuminating detail what it takes to implement exemplary literacy instruction.

Patricia L. Scharer is a professor of education at The Ohio State University. Her research, which centers around teacher change, phonics/word study, and the use of children's literature in instruction, has been published in Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Reading Research and Instruction. She is coauthor of Rethinking Phonics: Making the Best Teaching Decisions (Heinemann) and Teaching for Comprehension in Reading, Grades K-2 (Scholastic).