Research: Reading changes who we are
We’ve all heard the clichés about reading — that it takes us places, that it broadens our horizons, that it deepens the self. But researchers at Oh...
Category: reading
Findings: A great tool for teachers and students
Findings is a relatively new service that allows you to capture text clips from the Internet or your Kindle and then share them with others. It’s not exa...
Plenty of reading on Kindles so far this summer
We’ve been out of school for just three weeks, but for 12 lucky students, summer is already filled with tons of reading. Last year, some wonderful Iserot...
Fake reading and why SSR by itself isn’t effective
I’m a believer in Sustained Silent Reading. As Stephen Krashen (among others) says, the best way to become a better reader is to read — a lot. But ...
Correction: Some teachers are assessing annotations
A few posts ago, I wrote that teachers should begin assessing reading more directly, perhaps by looking at students’ annotations. My assumption was that ...