Give my students a grad gift!
Update: This project was funded in less than 24 hours! Thank you to Denise, Jenni, and Iris for your generous contributions! Update #2: Ramir and Dezmond won! T...
Category: reading
Reading: Whose questions do we answer?
Here’s a typical way that reading is done in classrooms: The teacher assigns a reading, the students read the selection, and then the teacher assigns rea...
I still can’t get a good read on David Coleman
David Coleman, architect of the Common Core standards, will become the president of the College Board in October. I’ve been following Mr. Coleman for a w...
NewsHour report on teaching reading
Learning Matters’ John Merrow reported last night on the PBS NewsHour about reading instruction and the trend toward teaching less fiction. It’s 10...
Google Reader for my students? No way.
I love Google Reader and use it every day. Instead of having to find interesting things to read, interesting things come to me. But when I tried to explain the...