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….
Read MoreThis post is the third installment of a 4-part series centered on moves teachers can make that will help their students become more engaged and independent as readers during that…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreIn 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…
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