Teacher Reader Responses, Vol. 1: On Literacy
We’re sharing the insightful, detailed, emotional, or otherwise compelling reader responses in some intermittent pattern.
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Want To Know How Students Feel When They Read Complex Texts?
What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first pass?
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The Leap From Decoding To Comprehension
Perhaps it’s time to explore a radical but common sense notion: maybe we don’t understand how reading comprehension develops over time.
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Editing Robert Burns For The 21st Century
Editing Robert Burns For The 21st Century contributed by Dr. Pauline Mackay, Lecturer in Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow Here at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies, we are undertaking a major project to edit Robert Burns’s works for the 21st Century. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by…
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What Students Often Misunderstand About Writing
Students are conditioned to believe that someone beyond their family or teacher will be automatically and genuinely interested in their ideas.
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Every Teacher Is A Vocabulary Teacher
Vocabulary is a matter of meaning and degrees of meaning, which means it cannot be the ‘job’ of a single content area or teacher.
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4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary
Direct Instruction, Modeling, Immersion, and Varied Interactions are four of the many keys to developing academic vocabulary in students.
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Blackalicious Offers A Dizzying Definition Of Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words: Sally and her seashells, Peter and his peppers.
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A(n Insufficent) Reading List To Help Students Begin To Grapple With Race
I thought it might be useful to share a reading list that might help students begin to grapple and make sense of race relations in the US.
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They Can Text & Tweet. Can They Speak?
contributed by Erik Palmer “I just watched our seniors present their capstone projects. They were unimpressive presentations, to say the least. Frankly, I’m worried that they make our school look bad.” Those were the words of the president of a small university when he called to ask me to work with his faculty. The seniors…
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Celebrating Literacy With The Reading/Pleasure Cycle
contributed by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. Using your child’s interests, strengths, and talents you can connect them to reading they enjoy as they simultaneously build their reading skills. Their increased reading skill will result in more satisfying reading experiences. In short, as literacy levels increase, so does the pleasure of reading. But this can go the other…
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The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym
What Is The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym? Initialisms and an acronyms are often confused, not so much that one is mistaken for another, but rather that initialisms aren’t usually named at all. To many, every series of letters (that function as initials) are called “acronyms.” The distinction, while primarily an academic distinction,…
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24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School
Middle school students are an interesting bunch of emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, knowledge, and maturity.
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Actually Achieving Close Reading With Digital Tools
As we think about how reading habits change & how to support students in print & digital spaces, I hope you’ll model reading practices.
