A thoughtful critique of David Coleman
Several posts ago, I encouraged English teachers to follow David Coleman, the architect of the Common Core State Standards, because of his power to change the ...
Category: reading
Article of the Week: Next Steps
Several years ago, English teacher Kelly Gallagher noticed that his students didn’t know much about their world, so he began assigning the Article of the...
Adults have to like reading for kids to like reading
For young people, reading isn’t cool. So says a recent report by the National Literacy Trust, an organization geared to promote reading in the United Kin...
Field trip idea to promote reading
Today I went to the Big Book Sale, put on by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. It’s a great event. The selection is huge (more than 500,00...
On the Common Core and its “informational texts”
The Common Core standards call for a major shift in reading in schools, from mostly fiction to mostly nonfiction. Many English teachers are up in arms. What ab...