If you’re familiar with Jennifer Serravallo’s hierarchy of reading goals for instruction, you know that engagement is at the very top, just below the most foundational goal of emergent reading….
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…