Tag: reading
What to Avoid When Publishing Student Writing
Writing is hard, and teaching writing is even harder. In an attempt to optimize their writing assignments, teachers often give students bad advice. While...
Paul Krugman and the Power of Science Fiction
“My mind is so free and unburdened that I am fixing to clean up my desk.”Flannery O’ConnerQuoted by Susan Ohanian, Books Day by Day,...
Michigan Bans Non-English Books from State Prisons
In June, National Public Radio reported that Michigan prisons were banning prisoners from accessing certain books and dictionaries in languages other than English.
Michigan prison...
Multiliteracies and Multilingual Learners
Equipped with Miami Linguistic Readers, Camino de la Escuela, and my own ingenuity, my young multilingual learners and I dived into what we believed...
Connecting Reading with Writing
Every semester as I prepare my classes, I ponder the same questions: Why does our academic English as a second language (ESL) program require...
Indiana Invests $111M in Science of Reading
Indiana’s literacy rate is on the decline. Just a decade ago, students taking the state’s third-grade reading exam, IREAD-3, passed at a rate of...
Hispanic Heritage Month Virtual Book Festival
Looking for interactive content for a classroom during Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month? The Latinx Kidlit Book Festival (LKBF) will be streaming live on October 13–14,...
The Power of Sports Fiction (and the Importance of Being Impeccable)
Fiction can take what seem to be ordinary situations and show us how important they can be. This one definitely changed my life for...
Reading Mastery
Oakland University
MAT in Reading and Language ArtsFormat: Fully OnlineLength: 2 yearsCredit hours: 32• Get experiential training through our reading/writing clinics• Learn from nationally renowned...
Reading Resources
World of ReadingFor over 30 years, World of Reading has offered hundreds of readers in a variety of languages—from Albanian to Vietnamese—from publishers worldwide....
