Quotomontage: Entering The Global Conversation Via Active Reading And Making
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. – Sam Rayburn I love quotes. Maybe it was being brought up sitting in […]
Tag Archives: Reading
Saving The Heart of Reading: Why We Should Transplant Close Reading
Close reading and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) lurk like shady hit men in the alleyway of the English building. Wiseguys waiting to whack someone. That someone is reading. […]
Conversation in the Hallway: Why students don’t read and what we should do about it
Day after day in class I see students working on their math homework or science homework during the passing period. They look driven… as if the four horsemen of the […]
Book reports: perhaps the biggest waste of time
As a young teenager I was blessed to live near a great library. At least twice a week my mother used to drop us off at the Huntington Beach Central […]
