Have students read assignment sheets
What I’m about to propose is not rocket science, but it’s revolutionary. It’s time for a new assignment. Maybe it’s an essay. Or perhap...
Category: reading
Will Kindles help the lowest-skilled readers?
We’re about to find out! Beginning next week, a teacher in Hayward will launch a Kindle reading intervention for the eight lowest-performing readers in t...
“Characters are just ways of thinking.”
Reading educators Jeffrey Wilhelm and Michael Smith recently interviewed students about the benefits of reading. Here’s my favorite quote from “Don...
We must teach reading deliberately
By high school, most teachers don’t teach students how to read. There’s an assumption that students either know how or they don’t. If they do...
Why read? Here’s one reason.
New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote a great personal narrative yesterday that teachers can give to their students to answer the question, “Why re...