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New Twitter Chat for Literacy Leaders
Happy Monday, Friends! We are excited to announce that we, in collaboration with Dr. Kimberly Tyson of Learning Unlimited, are founding an educational Twitter chat! This Literacy Leaders chat will...
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Announcing: PLEASE, LOUISE and a Related Contest
On September 17, 2001, just days after the attacks on the Twin Towers, I was spending my days tying up a series of loose ends in preparation for a move to a new town. One such loose end involved...
View ArticleHas Close Reading Gone Amok? (Part 1)
Social media response to the posts we write and share on this blog help us to keep our finger on the pulse of what really matters to educators. So, when Reading Today recently released its “What’s Hot”...
View ArticleEvaluating and Vetting Common Core “Aligned” Close Reading Materials
As publishers continue to flood the market with “Common Core” aligned materials, the task of sifting through and weeding out the good from the bad becomes increasingly more difficult. Educators are...
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Attending Our Children’s Sporting Events and Other Bad Habits
Recently, we encountered this three minute video essay by Daniel Pink that you should watch before reading the blog post that follows. After watching this video essay, we had many thoughts, including,...
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Turning Down the Volume on Assumptions: Lessons about Close Reading
We are often amazed by the ways excellent books can teach us lessons about close reading. Of late, we’ve been thinking about the ways the “volume” of our assumptions about a text can drown out what...
View ArticleResponse’s to Shanahan: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
In many respects, Shanahan’s recent article for American Educator, “Letting the Text Take the Center Stage: How the Common Core State Standards Will Transform English Language Arts Instruction,” is one...
View ArticleDoes Instructional Reading Level Exist? A Response to Timothy Shanahan (Part 3)
Today, we finish up our response to Timothy Shanahan’s recent article in American Educator, “Letting the Text Take the Center Stage: How the Common Core State Standards Will Transform English...
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Learning to Read is Like Learning to Ride a Bike
Imagining the wind blowing through their hair as they coast down a hill or picturing themselves racing after an older sibling makes many young children eager to ride bikes without training wheels....
View Article“Connecting” to the Transformative Power of Reading
Since the Common Core Standards were introduced, educators have been debating the role that text-to-self connections play in students’ reading. Initially, the message was “Students must read within...
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New Twitter Chat for Literacy Leaders
Happy Monday, Friends! We are excited to announce that we, in collaboration with Dr. Kimberly Tyson of Learning Unlimited, are founding an educational Twitter chat! This Literacy Leaders chat will...
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Announcing: PLEASE, LOUISE and a Related Contest
On September 17, 2001, just days after the attacks on the Twin Towers, I was spending my days tying up a series of loose ends in preparation for a move to a new town. One such loose end involved...
View ArticleHas Close Reading Gone Amok? (Part 1)
Social media response to the posts we write and share on this blog help us to keep our finger on the pulse of what really matters to educators. So, when Reading Today recently released its “What’s Hot”...
View ArticleEvaluating and Vetting Common Core “Aligned” Close Reading Materials
As publishers continue to flood the market with “Common Core” aligned materials, the task of sifting through and weeding out the good from the bad becomes increasingly more difficult. Educators are...
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Attending Our Children’s Sporting Events and Other Bad Habits
Recently, we encountered this three minute video essay by Daniel Pink that you should watch before reading the blog post that follows. After watching this video essay, we had many thoughts, including,...
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