Nurturing Literacy, Not Test-Taking
The following excerpt from Dawn Kirby’s post on the blog Writers Who Care is reprinted by permission. Literacy as …
Fostering a “Reading School” Climate
On a week when our attention is turned to the issue of book banning it’s interesting to consider why book …
The First Day of School
I recently read “Don’t Waste the First Day of School“, a blog post by Catlin Tucker, where she proposes several activities …
The Power of Our Inquiry
The following text by Timothy O’Keefe is an excerpt from Looking Closely & Listening Carefully: Learning Literacy through Inquiry by …
Writing and Reading are Related
The NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing, written by the Writing Study Group of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints …
Will Poetry Be Done Tomorrow?
I was recently talking about Kwame Alexander’s Newbery-winning book The Crossover with my eighth graders. My students were really into …
Can Close Reading Be Inspiring?
The following post is excerpted from an article by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp called Learning Cycles That …