A Lot of Reading “Skill” is Really Knowledge
I’m excited to share this post I wrote in conversation with the team at InnerDrive. A lot of us tend to look to research for answers. ......
Meet Steve
Stephen Chiger has trained thousands of educators in literacy instruction nationally. Chiger taught high school English and journalism for more than a decade in New Jersey and currently works at Uncommon Schools, where he directs literacy curriculum and assessment for multiple grades. He has served as president of the Garden State Scholastic Press Association, co-director of the Hugh N. Boyd Journalism Diversity Workshop, and was named 2015 Educator of the Year by the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English. As a literacy director, Chiger led Uncommon’s Newark middle and high schools to outperform their economically advantaged counterparts on state and national assessments. He holds a B.A. in English from Lafayette College, an M.S.J. in journalism from Northwestern University, and an Ed.M. in Educational Leadership from Columbia University.
A Practical Guide to Finding the Magic in Literature.
When our students enter middle and high school, the saying goes that they stop learning to read and start learning to learn. Then why is literacy still a struggle for so many of our students? The reality is that elementary school isn’t designed to prepare students for Othello and Song of Solomon. That’s our job as secondary educators.
So what can we do? Examining the work of scores of successful teachers, Love and Literacy shares some hard-won answers.
- Research-based best practices in facilitating discourse, building curriculum, guiding student comprehension and analysis, creating a class culture where literacy thrives, and more
- Video clips of middle- and high-school teachers implementing these practices
- An online, print-ready Reading and Writing Handbook that places every tool at your fingertips to implement effectively
- Discussion questions for your own professional learning or book study group
