Category: Reading

The Reading Zone by Nancie Atwell 0

Recommended Reading List for Junior High by Nancie Atwell

Nancie Atwell’s book The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers is a manifesto for change in reading classrooms. She successfully argues that the key to reading instruction is...

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Is This Heaven? No, It’s the Library

Update: Unfortunately the link below no longer works. However, you can still see beautiful library images at Temples of Knowledge by Ahmet Ertug. If books are an important part of your life then drop...

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How to Help Students Choose Books to Read

In their book Moving Forward With Literature Circles, Day, Spiegel, McLellan and Brown give a simple, effective way to help students learn how to choose their own books to read. They write that we...

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Dead Poets Society Teaching Unit Tops Downloaded Documents

Wow! I looked at the download statistics for my Scribd documents and was amazed to see that 292 people viewed my unfinished Dead Poets Society Teaching Unit this month. I wonder how many people...