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Three New Picture Book Titles for Teaching Math Concepts
This week we’ve reviewed informational texts, including books by Kate Riggs on Monday and hybrid informational/historical fiction series yesterday. Today we have three, just-published picture book...
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Clear as Mud: Exploring the Role of Narrative Nonfiction in CCSS Definitions...
What is an informational text really? Technically, it seems that it should be any text that you read to find out information. Such a broad definition would sit well with most of the teachers we know,...
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Misunderstanding Text Complexity
On this blog, given all the ways to misunderstand and misinterpret text complexity, we have written about it quite a bit. In a blog digest that we put together last February, we compiled many of our...
View ArticleResponse’s to Shanahan: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
In many respects, Shanahan’s recent article for American Educator, “Letting the Text Take the Center Stage: How the Common Core State Standards Will Transform English Language Arts Instruction,” is one...
View ArticleDoes Instructional Reading Level Exist? A Response to Timothy Shanahan (Part 3)
Today, we finish up our response to Timothy Shanahan’s recent article in American Educator, “Letting the Text Take the Center Stage: How the Common Core State Standards Will Transform English...
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Learning to Read is Like Learning to Ride a Bike
Imagining the wind blowing through their hair as they coast down a hill or picturing themselves racing after an older sibling makes many young children eager to ride bikes without training wheels....
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New Twitter Chat for Literacy Leaders
Happy Monday, Friends! We are excited to announce that we, in collaboration with Dr. Kimberly Tyson of Learning Unlimited, are founding an educational Twitter chat! This Literacy Leaders chat will...
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Announcing: PLEASE, LOUISE and a Related Contest
On September 17, 2001, just days after the attacks on the Twin Towers, I was spending my days tying up a series of loose ends in preparation for a move to a new town. One such loose end involved...
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Helping Students Engage with Complex Texts
In October 2012, we reviewed several texts useful in helping students engage with complex texts. These professional resources predated the Common Core, yet seemed to address many of the themes...
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Attending Our Children’s Sporting Events and Other Bad Habits
Recently, we encountered this three minute video essay by Daniel Pink that you should watch before reading the blog post that follows. After watching this video essay, we had many thoughts, including,...
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