Are Reading Stations Really Worth the Time?
Efficiency tied together with high-impact student learning is every teacher’s goal. We also want students to be able to work with some degree of independence. The wish for all three…
What’s Really Behind the Divide in Reading Instruction?
Think about the last disagreement you had with someone. Without knowing a single detail about your disagreement, I’m pretty confident that the root cause, the way-down-deep-what- started-it-all cause, was miscommunication….
Effective Teaching Strategies Through Conferring: Know Students, Teach Better
One way to teach very efficiently is to really understand what students already know and can do and tailor our instruction from there. While teaching to the “middle” will be…
Replace, Resist, or Reimagine? How to Deal With New Reading Curriculum
Whether by choice or by force, teachers everywhere have recently adopted a new reading curriculum. In an effort to sell to the masses, these companies typically result in “curriculum bloat,”…
Teaching Kids How to Write a Summary for Nonfiction
In a previous post, I shared one of the easiest, most effective strategies for simplifying narrative summary writing for kids. If you haven’t read that post yet, please take a…