This is another quote from the handbook to my new reading seminar. See a seminar description and find out how to register here. Hope to see you there. See the rest of of the insightful and stimulating reading quotes in this series here. →→→
All of these quotes about teaching reading are included in the handbook for my new reading seminar. See a seminar description and find out how to register here. See the rest of of the insightful and stimulating reading quotes in this series here.
Berit Gordon's book No More Fake Reading is worth looking through. There will be quotes by Gordon and many other noteworthy classroom teachers and researchers in the handbook accompanying my new seminar: Best Reading Strategies to Accelerate Fluency and Proficiency in the Target Language See a seminar description and find [...]
This is a big one. If your students aren't doing free voluntary reading/sustained silent reading (what second language researchers and academicians like Paul Nation call extensive reading), they need to. It makes a huge difference in student achievement and allows for true, student-selected differentiation. See a seminar description and [...]
I'm working on a handbook for reading for my upcoming BER seminars, so I've been focused on reading lately and I want to share some tidbits early. Dual Entry Reading Journals are a tool to measure reading comprehension with a medium level of accountability. With this form, students can [...]
Cinco de Mayo is almost here. Sadly, it won't be as big of a celebration this year, but we can still teach students a bit about it. Wouldn't you bet that most of them think it is Mexican Independence Day? Here is a quiz and a reading in Spanish [...]