High Interest Books for Teens
We all know that students need to read more. But if we’re being honest, we know that many teens are not reading the works we…
Category: Reading Instruction
These posts provide strategies and reflections about best-practice for the teaching of reading including reading comprehension, literary analysis, close-reading, and other literacy-related instructional tasks.
Strong Writers Make Strong Readers
One of the central premises of the upcoming Writing Wednesday series is that by engaging students in meaningful creative writing tasks, we can improve not…
In Defense of Books
Like many educators, I am becoming increasingly disheartened by the growing number of calls from parents and lawmakers around the country to exclude certain books…