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.
Reading Approaches and Elements - 63 views
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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
Writing Stories - Stenhouse Publishers - 1 views
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
Google Books: A Concordance for Every Full Text - 85 views
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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