I’m not reading much anymore. This makes me sad.
Last year, I read 66 books. This is what my Goodreads account tells me. This year, I’m down to 32. For a person who likes to read and who extols the impo...
Category: reading
Reading closely takes a long time
My passion — and my nemesis — is teaching reading. I think reading is the most important thing to teach. Unfortunately, I haven’t figured out...
The struggle for Sustained Silent Reading
One of the best things about my school is that we have a period of Sustained Silent Reading three times a week in our Advisory class. Unfortunately, we donR...
This is what happens when our society doesn’t value reading
On Monday, my students did their second practice open essay for AP English. There was a prompt, as usual, but instead of having to read a passage of prose or a...
Getting ready for online book discussions
My students struggled with Beloved. It was a tough book: intense, confusing, long. I found out that my students have trouble tackling 100 pages at a time on th...