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. Definitive....
04 January, 2024
Four Things Dutch Still Life Teaches Us About English Curriculum
Earlier this week, the New York Times posted a terrific piece about Dutch still life painting. It was a wonderful coincidence, since I’ve been thinking a...
14 May, 2022
Get Meta on Genre to Bolster Reading Skill
Get explicit about genre. It can be a power move to boost reading comprehension. ...
06 April, 2022
If you want a great class debate, provoke it.
“There is satire in it, but only as there is satire in any realistic statement.” Grant Wood, speaking about "American Gothic"...
29 November, 2021
How to enhance Literary Analysis Part 2 – Tuning Reading Radar
“It’s as if the key to the treasure is the treasure.” – John Barth, Chimera In my last post, I talked about some moves you might...
17 October, 2021
Literary Analysis: It’s Like Camerawork (part 1)
How can we move students from paraphrasing evidence when we want them to analyze it?...
11 September, 2021
Swords and Ploughshares
What if, instead of counseling writers to “attack” others’ points, we framed argumentation as an opportunity to understand more than one POV....
07 June, 2021
Making Reading Comprehension Visible
“We all seized the white perimeter as our ownand reached for a pen if only to showwe did not just laze in an armchair turning...
02 May, 2021
When Knowledge Isn’t Enough
Background knowledge is essential for reading. But is it sufficient?...
05 April, 2021