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Chapters 1-3 of Revisiting The Reading Workshop explains how to set up workshops and also why they are important to use in a classroom. Chapter one tells about the parts of a reading workshop. It also compares a class with a reading workshop to a class without one. It explains how to come up with mini lessons for the workshop. It says to observe what your students need. It also gives ways to let your students respond and reflect. Chapter two went into how to get the workshops together. The teacher needs to know what she needs out of them. It also went though top priorities such as on task behavior. It also gives ways to set up the classroom and to organize your library. It also talks about how to get parent involvement. Chapter three goes into how to plan mini lessons. It tells how to structure the lessons by involving the students. It also gives different ways that the students can be involved in the lesson. They can have story partners, give thumbs up and thumbs down or take notes. It also says the ending is very important and gives ways to dismiss your students. After reading the first three chapters, I believe some of the concepts are too hard for first graders, especially beginning first graders. I use reading workshops in my classroom two to three times a week. Chapter three did have some good pointers for setting up mini lessons. I also agree that parent involvement is very important in the classroom. This book did have a few good ways to get the parents more involved in workshops.