Reading goals of ninth graders in Hayward
By high school, many people think that you can’t improve your reading. Very few high schools assess their students’ reading skills, except on summa...
Category: reading
Check out this beautiful classroom library
Here is part of Kathleen Large’s beautiful classroom library in San Francisco. Take a look! Kathleen understands best practices of classroom library des...
Best practice for classroom libraries: Multiple copies of fewer titles
Here’s one that used to escape me. Let’s say you’re a teacher, and you care about reading, and you want to start building a classroom library...
Recommended Reading: “Another Defensive Post About e-reading”
E-readers are getting really bad press lately, thanks mainly to a small study coming out of Europe and today’s announcement that the Los Angeles Unified ...
Are physical books better than e-books?Research on e-readers in schools (#2)
My good friend Pete sent me this article last week, which summarizes a forthcoming study that suggests that students reading on Kindles comprehend less than th...