Insightful saying by the legendary Susan Gross... Use any grammar that is appropriate with your students, but hold back on the vocabulary to be sure they understand the core meaning. When they understand enough messages clearly, their subconscious will figure out the necessary syntax and conjugations. Grammar will become [...]
Here's another quote from 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.
Today marks day one of a series of quotes about teaching reading. These are based on the research I have done for my upcoming BER seminars on reading, my years of experience, and extensive conversations with scholars and classroom teachers. I hope you'll enjoy these as much as I [...]
These are the reading assignments from the course syllabi in my level 1 and level 3 classes. Most of it is self-selected reading, even in level 1.Level 1 students can read on their own and read an amazing amount once they know the high frequency verbs. This plan really [...]
Ahem... er... well... Nope. They want to learn and they will read if we encourage and equip them. This is the book check out list from our classroom library for the second full week of school. 23 books checked out so far. Most of these kids are level 1 [...]
When I started doing “Special Person” student interviews I had an interviewing model in mind. It was Oprah. Having that model in my head helped me to keep me on track in rambling interviews with kids that didn’t even know what they wanted to share. And Oprah was a [...]