Literacy in Leafstrewn

Natural Reading?  OK.  Natural Teaching? Maybe not. A couple of times on this blog I have suggested that "natural reading" should...

is very good, if a little too perfect and precious.  The best novels I've read this summer are still by Beverly Cleary.

If you have had a reasonably good childhood, or at least a reasonably repressed one (same thing?), or maybe even a miserable one, becoming a...

This spring, the excellent Leafstrewn student newspaper (let's call it "The Pequod") ran a column about reading.  The column w...

I've been worrying recently about the ways in which reading is social, cultural, and deeply influenced by one's social class.  Below...

 MisterFischer, a fellow teacher and a reader of this blog, writes in offering his own ideas about how English class could change.  I think ...

     The elite are "nurtured"and "inspired" toward a "love" for reading Like Barack Obama and Arne Duncan, ...

Summer is a time for recharging and reflection--and for reading a lot.  Some readers of this blog have expressed a wish to hear more about L...

To Kill a Mockingbird has its problems.  An article last year about students who don't read the assigned texts was titled, "The 80...

I am tired.  I sympathize with my students!  The course I am taking is kind of hard (I'm in class most of the day, and then I have homew...

I've read some more studies, and it still is very far from clear to me that spending time on explicit vocab instruction in non-specializ...

I've been thinking about vocabulary a lot recently.  I've tried to teach vocabulary in a "robust" way in recent years (of...

This week I'm doing a workshop at my school, the beginning of a pretty big initiative aimed at increasing literacy and reading skills ...

I'm going away for a few days on a camping trip, but I'm going to try to schedule this to be posted on Friday.  Miraculous technolog...

I end the year feeling relatively happy with what I accomplished in my "Honors" Junior classes.  There we have a more or less cohe...

This week I was going to write about giving kids time in school to read, but I'll save that for another Friday.  Last night I chaperoned...

Many parents have asked me how they can get their children to read more, and I think that's the question we all should be asking.  Gett...