Get Your Students to Love the News, #4: There’s nothing like the real thing.
If you’ve been reading this series, “Get Your Students to Love the News,” you’ll notice that I’m trying to suggest simple and eas...
Category: reading
Get Your Students to Love the News, #3: Newsela meets kids at their reading level
Imagine my joy when I found out about Newsela, a website that modifies the vocabulary and syntax of news articles to match the reading levels of students. I wi...
Port Townsend classroom library gets upgrade
Remember the beautiful classroom library in Port Townsend that I wrote about a few months ago? Here it is, in case you forgot how great it was: I’m happy...
First starter classroom library complete!
Let me make a plain statement. If you want your students to read, you need books. Lots of them. Good ones. (Bonus points = New books.) Sure, you can tell your ...
Get Your Students to Love the News, #2: Circa explains current events concisely
Update, Sept. 2014: This post is now out of date, thanks to circa’s 3.0 update, which is beautiful! But most of the post still stands. Yes, it makes me c...