Tag Archives: best practices
Reading Strategies: A How-To for Teachers
At Thinkport you’ll find a pretty awesome series of online guides, videos, and tutorials aimed at making you a more effective teacher of reading strategies. What’s most amazing is that this site is actually aimed at middle school teachers, that oft-forgotten … Continue reading
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Diagnosing and Responding to Student Writing
From the Dartmouth Writing Program at Dartmouth College, some great thoughts on Diagnosing and Responding to Student Writing. By no means is this is a stylish, high tech site, but if you look further into some of the links at the … Continue reading
The Mother Lode!
A mother lode (yes, the spelling is correct; I even looked it up) is a rich and abundant source, usually of ores or minerals. But in the case of the ReadKiddoRead ning, mother lode refers to a resource of over 100 … Continue reading
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Great Minds Thinking Alike
A couple months ago I mentioned the English Companion Ning. That group is now nearing 10,000 members, and I encourage you more than ever to get involved! For those of you who don’t know much about Nings, here’s a quick … Continue reading
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Teaching Metaphorically
In response to my prior post about Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching Any Subject, I received an email from Adriana who asked, “Can you give an example of a metaphorical lesson? Not a lesson that teaches about metaphors, but a … Continue reading
Metaphorically Speaking
Stenhouse has put out a new book that I can’t recommend enthusiastically enough. Rick Wormeli’s Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching Any Subject adds to the canon of distinguished titles which deal with the topic of metaphor. His work, … Continue reading
In Search of the Novel
In Search of the Novel is a series of 8 one hour videos produced by Annenberg Media. From the series introduction: Discover creative strategies for bringing novels to life for middle and high school students with this workshop, featuring the words … Continue reading
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Tools for Teaching
You’re reading this post at the old How to Teach a Novel site. Continue reading this post or the most recent post at the new site. Teachers often email me asking for ways they can help their students organize thoughts … Continue reading
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How NOT to Teach a Novel
You’re reading this post at the old How to Teach a Novel site. Continue reading this post or the most recent post at the new site. Some teachers, with all the best intentions, treat novels like pinatas, beating them with … Continue reading
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Welcome to How to Teach a Novel
You’re reading this post at the old How to Teach a Novel site. Continue reading the most recent post at the new site. Welcome to my new blog! Some of you may have arrived here from my Teach with Picture … Continue reading
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