Two kinds of reading rarely taught in schools
If you’re a typical student in a typical urban public high school, here’s what you’re reading: 1. Teacher-assigned fiction. Usually in novel ...
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Using think-alouds to teach reading
By high school, most teachers don’t help their students read better. Instead, this is what typically happens: The teacher assigns a reading for homework,...
The best tools to keep track of everything on the Internet
What do you do with everything you find on the web? Like, how do you remember the good stuff you’ve read? And how do you organize it and access it later?...
Today’s project: Organizing all my books
Today I’m organizing all my books using Goodreads. The first thing I decided, after much thought, was to create two Goodreads accounts to split the books...
There must be more reading in schools
Most high schools don’t include very much reading in their curriculum. Here are some of the reasons I’ve heard: 1. Students don’t read very w...