We call our replacement for guided reading Wide Awake Reading because we focus on teaching kids that reading means being fully engaged with each other. We approach… Read more “Student-Led Discourse Made Easy”
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Our vision as teachers
If you tell your students what to say and how to say it, you may never hear them, only the pale echoes of what they imagine you… Read more “Our vision as teachers”
Intercomprehending: Dismantling the Deficit Approach in ESL
When I first proposed an ELA course where students could move at their own pace while reading texts they chose, and work in heterogeneous groups organized by… Read more “Intercomprehending: Dismantling the Deficit Approach in ESL”