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Examples of Practice: iPads in the Primary Classroom
In a recent post in Education Week, Justin Reich (@bjfr) strongly encourages teachers who have iPads in their classrooms to make their teaching visible. He recognizes that schools are quickly adopting...
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Examples of Practice: Using iPads and Evernote When Assessing Readers
All K-12 teachers are reading teachers. The school, grade level and content area we work in does not matter. In every classroom, a random group of students will come in with varying degrees of reading...
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A Takeaway from the Wisconsin State Reading Association Convention
This is part of a post I shared with my teachers this week on our staff blog. It is a summary of what I took away from the excellent WSRA Convention in Milwaukee on February 7-9, 2013. The Wisconsin...
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Questions Readers Ask Other Readers
In my school, reading intervention for 4th and 5th graders very much resembles a book club. There are a) lots of books that the readers are interested in, b) not a lot of tests or assignments, and c)...
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Using iOS Apps to Develop and Sustain ePortfolios
“First, look at your current literacy initiatives and set goals for how to improve them.” – From Pathways to the Common Core by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth and Christopher Lehman I am fortunate to...
View ArticleFeedback After an Evernote and iPad Workshop
I recently hosted a one hour technology session for district staff. The topic: Using Evernote on the iPad to Confer With and Assess Readers. Afterward, I emailed each participant a survey via Google...
View ArticleI Say Let Them Read
This post is actually a comment I left on Annie Murphy Paul’s blog, on her post titled “Teens Are Choosing Books That Are Too Easy For Them”. Where I agree with the concerns of this report is that...
View ArticleTop Ten Signs You Might Be an Avid Reader
This post is inspired by Peter Johnston when he spoke at the Wisconsin State Reading Association conference this year. He suggested we measure student reading engagement with questions that identify...
View ArticleWhat I am Reading Right Now: 9/27/14
The September 22, 2014 issue of Time I try to stay up to date on my magazine subscriptions, but I often fall behind once the school year starts. This issue, however, I have made time to read. The...
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Dinner Before Dessert? (or, Should We Really Be Pushing for More Nonfiction...
I was in the staff lounge grabbing a cup of coffee recently. Next to the Keurig machine is a lending library. No one really runs it. People just put books on the shelf, assuming others might want to...
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