Reason's Why Your Reader's Workshop and Writer's Workshop Is Not Working

There are a lot of moving parts in the readers and writers workshop model. It takes a lot of coordination, planning, and modeling for reading and writing magic to happen. Reading and writing centers seem chaotic and mismanaged, you’re constantly being interrupted during your small groups, and students still don’t seem to know what they should be doing during independent work time. Is it really just too hard? Should you just go back to traditional whole-class teaching? Maybe. OR - y...