Tag: teaching reading
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A Slice of Children’s Literature Class: Slice of Life #sol18 16/31
Yesterday, something magical happened in my Children’s Literature course for pre-service elementary teachers. My phone had ticked down from 18 minutes, and the bell began to chime, signaling the end of our reading time. I slid my finger over the alarm to turn it off, tucked an index card into my book to mark the…
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Slice of Life: Reading Malpractice
I think I should sue my son’s school for reading malpractice. Every day he comes home from school hating reading just a little bit more. Understanding just a little bit less what it means to be a reader. Understanding just a little bit less why anyone would ever want to read. Feeling more confused by the…
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Wild Readers in a College Children’s Literature Course: Part 3 #cyberPD
Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild, one of my favorite books about teaching, is the title chosen for this year’s #cyberPD event. This week, Literacy Learning Zone hosts a discussion of Chapter 5. I radically revised the Children’s Literature course I teach to elementary education majors last semester with one goal in mind: the care and feeding of wild…
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Readers Have Plans
One of the main things that keeps me reading is that I always have more books queued up to read. I’m never at a loss when I finish a book, because there’s a stack or a list or a shelf waiting. More and more, I believe that Penny Kittle’s words are the key to lifelong…
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Reading Like a Wolf Eats
Sometimes it seems like every available surface in my house and office looks like this. And I’m not in the middle of moving or reorganizing bookshelves. I just like books. A lot. This week, I laid my cards on the table in Adolescent Literature class.The only thing I really care that you do in this…
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Storify: #NCTE13 Recap in Tweets
I have arranged my tweets and retweets from #NCTE13 to tell a particular story of my learning at the conference: [View the story “#NCTE13 Recap ” on Storify]
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