The Guide to the Reading Workshop: Middle School Grades offers a comprehensive but concise introduction to: the need for this series research on what adolescent readers need ways to launch and sustain independent reading a big-picture introduction to the reading workshop the architecture of minilessons classroom management tips and strategies levels of text complexity conferring with readers and providing transferrable feedback small-group work writing about reading practical help for book clubs instructional Read Aloud the special importance of nonfiction reading supporting English learners in reading workshop