Journal #2: Learning to Use Diverse Children's Literature in the Classroom: A Model for... - 7 views
I appreciate how you demonstrated that this article made you think about your own classroom, and changes you want to make.
I appreciate how you demonstrated that this article made you think about your own classroom, and changes you want to make.
Great question I didn't address in the review. All the examples used are middle to high school oriented and seem to require a level of maturity that elementary students would not possess. I think...
I Entered the Citation above of the book I mentioned in my last post.
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Please know that I genuinely am trying to get everything back within a week. Really, I am! ;)
This book is a wonderful! The students become very independent and teachers are able to work with guided reading groups or individual conferences. It amazing what students can be trained to do with...
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I choose Derrick Jensen's book Walking on Water to review, mainly because he offers specific details on how to reform education, but focuses on students' attitudes on writing and reading. Jensen te...
I have heard a lot about this book in recent months. The hand selection of books is amazing. I could not imagine doing that for my students. I like a lot of the ideas that you wrote about like t...
"I have found it easiest to focus on using one strategy at a time and practice using it until it becomes part of my routine." This is excellent advice for applying almost anything new in the classr...
Plourde, Lee A., and Ludivina Prado. "Increasing reading comprehension through the explicit teaching of reading strategies: is there a difference among the genders?" Reading Improvement Spring 2011...