A look at Cool Classics!, a book-based after-school program in Chicago started and run by Mara Tapp and a finalist for the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Source: Cool Classics makes Chicago kids’ lives better, a book at a time – Chicago Tribune
Category: 1. Literacy Philosophy Foundations
Nov 11
Improving Teacher Practices: The Gradual Release Model
“Explore the “gradual release” instructional model with Sarah as she tries it in her class” Source: Improving Teacher Practices: The Gradual Release Model
Nov 11
Using Music To Help Teach English Language Arts
Source: Using Music To Help Teach English Language Arts
Nov 11
Listening Comprehension, Listening that sparks learning | Listenwise
http://listenwise.com http://listenwise.com/?_ga=2.165270783.1155634957.1510412949-1952644787.1476133607 Source: Listening Comprehension, Listening that sparks learning | Listenwise
Oct 23
Louise Rosenblatt: A Life in Literacy
This article, by Duane Roen & Nicholas Karolides, published in The ALAN Review in 1995, is an introduction to Louise Rosenblatt, one of the most influential theorist for teachers of reading and writing in the past 80 years!
Sep 13
Classroom Resources | Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is a resources that promotes class discussion and the integration of content area subjects with current events. Source: Classroom Resources | Teaching Tolerance
Aug 21
Where I’m From, a poem by George Ella Lyon, writer and teacher
Here is an engaging way to begin to know your students, and introduce them to each other and the writing process! See what others have done using Lyon’s poem as a prompt — and try it yourself! Where I’m From, a poem by George Ella Lyon, writer and teacher Source: Where I’m From, a poem …
May 09
Louise Rosenblatt: A Life in Literacy
By Duane Roen & Nicholas Karolides. Published in the ALAN Review, Summer 2005 Rosenblatt’s thinking laid the foundations for a transactional view of literacy! Decades later, her work is seminal to those who teach literature.
May 08
A Place for Talk in a Writers’ Workshop – National Writing Project
Source: A Place for Talk in a Writers’ Workshop – National Writing Project “It was not until I began reading about teaching writing that I realized that those morning gab sessions were responsible for this excellent writing. Whereas I thought we were “stealing” writing time to talk, we were really practicing the art of …
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