In the introduction to her book, Passionate Readers (2018), literacy teacher extraordinaire Pernille Ripp shares a big mistake she made as a beginning teacher. Here are her words: My previous…
For decades, we’ve known the importance of independent reading (see Johnson and Blair, 2003). It’s the place where kids practice their growing skills as readers. Where they have the chance…
In part of the country, teachers have just gotten out of school. In other parts, like mine, school has been out for a month already. While we all love our…
It takes less than five minutes on social media to see that the acronym “SOR” is a divisive one. More and more lately, there are two camps of educators. There…
There is a sad phenomenon going on in schools across the country today. Because of all of the push for mandated, foundational skill curriculum, little time is left for independent…