Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, is our anchor text for a unit of study examining the archetypal hero’s journey, which speaks to teenagers’ process of self-discovery (Campbell 1972). It is also the book I am using to teach students how to question and visualize. Our essential question is, “How do trials in our journey through high school shape us?” We use that question as we talk about Speak and our own high school lives.
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Reading Approaches and Elements - 63 views
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Different way of looking at independent reading time.
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Kelly Gallagher notes in Deeper Reading, “if we simply assign reading instead of teaching students how to read, we’ll get poor reading” (2004, 7).
Stenhouse Publishers - 7 views
Writing Stories - Stenhouse Publishers - 49 views
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Ideas, Exercises, and Encouragement for Teachers and Writers of All Ages. Free online preview of the entire book.
Doing Literary Criticism - Stenhouse Publishers - 64 views
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Interesting read and super materials for teachers looking to add/enhance literary criticism in HS English classes.
Writing Stories - Stenhouse Publishers - 1 views
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Free Online Preview of an amazing book. "Ideas, Exercises, and Encouragement for Teachers and Writers of All Ages"
Moving the Classroom Outdoors - Stenhouse Publishers - 56 views
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Link to free color e-book preview.
Blogstitute Week 5: Reducing instruction, increasing engagement - The Stenhouse Blog - 41 views
Sustaining Engagement: One School's Attempt to Develop Lifelong Readers - The Stenhouse... - 51 views
Taking the Tedium Out of Textual Analysis - 105 views
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Common Core using Wordle...love it!
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Google Books: A Concordance for Every Full Text - 85 views
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Great way to use Google Books in class
40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies - 105 views
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See Readicide for a powerful argument of how we as teachers, while well-intentioned, can “schoolify” reading and viewing and learning to the point that it’s unrecognizable to anyone anywhere on the planet outside of the classroom, and make students think they hate what they’re doing in the process.
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You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much different.
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Interesting article and graphic relating to how we can increase viewing comprehension in our classrooms.
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