GUEST LECTURE AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
I will be a guest lecturer at Kansas State University on April 3. Topic will be Effective L2 Reading Strategies. If you're in the area, let me or Miki Loschky, Ph.D., know.
FOCUSED BOOK REPORTS
My students have had success with Focused Reading Book Reports. These are not your typical summary book reports. They each have a specific point for students to concentrate on as they think about the book. Download these forms for free and try them out with some of your students. [...]
THE VALUE OF FREE READING
(This article was originally published in the International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (IJFLT), Summer, 2005 edition under the title Another Win for Harry Potter: More Evidence of the Value of Free Reading. I'm still learning from this kid.) Here is the article in a pdf format. Have you [...]
Quantity Beats Quality
(This is a excerpt from my book and workshop: Hi-Impact Reading Strategies: How to Accelerate Fluency and Proficiency with Reading. Get the book in hard copy here and the eBook here.) When designing your Independent Reading Program this year, consider this. An interesting experiment is described in the book [...]
GRAMMAR CRITERIA FOR BOOKS?
A reader of this blog asks: I'm curious to know, do you have a criterion or standard of what grammar should be included in level 1, level 2, level 3 and level 4 books? Our general standards for grammar follow the levels in a traditional grammar syllabus with a [...]
TEACHER FORCED TO RESIGN AFTER REVEALING SHE READS FOR PLEASURE
CAMBRIDGE, MA—In yet another education scandal, French teacher Désireux Lecteur has been placed on administrative leave from her position after publicly disagreeing with the removal of the school library and other absurd habits, according to a statement released Monday. Lecteur’s school, McKinley-Taft High School in Cambridge, removed the remaining [...]