Reading as hero-making
I’ve just finished reading Carol Jago’s With Rigor For All, a defense of teaching the classics. When Jago’s talking about classics, she’...
Category: reading
Support the 1 Million Word Challenge!
Help a ninth grader love reading even more. Support The 1,000,000 Word Challenge. There are many ways to donate! 1. Buy a book from our Amazon wishlist. These a...
1 student + 1 Kindle + 1 week = 2 books read!
What happens when you give a Kindle to a student who says she doesn’t like reading and then let her keep it for a week? The answer is, She reads two books...
Quick reflection on teaching reading so far this year
I unveiled to my students The 1,000,000 Word Challenge this year, a focus on independent reading. So far, the results are mixed. While it’s been hard movi...
A Kindle is coming to my classroom
A fun new toy is being delivered in just a few weeks. I can’t wait. My students are getting an Amazon Kindle. Over the summer, I wrote a proposal on Donor...