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The Future of Reading - ‘Reading Workshop’ Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Series - NYTimes.com

Excellent read. Look for the quote from the author of the Dumbest Generation.

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  • Even some previously staunch advocates of a rigid core curriculum have moderated their views. “I actually used to be a real hard-line, great-books, high-culture kind of person who would want to stick to Dickens,” said Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University and the author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.” But now, in the age of Game Boys and Facebook, “I think if they read a lot of Conan novels or Hardy Boys or Harry Potter or whatever, that’s good,” he said. “We just need to preserve book habits among the kids as much as we possibly can.”
    • Holy hell. I love this guy. As much as I grew to love the classics, to a point, this validates so much of what I thought as a teacher. Just get them to be book-lovers. The rest is easy. - on 2009-08-31
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15 Jul 09

Top 10 Superhero Comic Books Your Kids Should Be Reading | GeekDad | Wired.com

List of 10 comics that may help hook boys and girls on reading at a young age.

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06 Jul 09

What Makes a Good Fourth-Grade Reader? Knowledge. | Britannica Blog

  • Once students can decode, background knowledge is crucial to reading comprehension.
    • This is a lob to himself here. - on 2009-07-06
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  • Ensuring that students have wide-ranging knowledge of the world ideally begins at birth, through a rich home environment. Schools must do everything possible to support and expand that knowledge base, and integrating material from other subjects into the reading curriculum is an important step in the right direction.
    • Though the statistics above and the analysis of the test are extremely relevant, nothing in this post is as pertinent as these sentences. - on 2009-07-06
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01 Jul 09

Literary Devices

Color-coded glossary of literary devices, terms, elements, and techniques. Extremely useful or teachers of rhetoric

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23 Jun 09

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com

While it may be re-packaging of old ideas, some of these may lead to some great new avenues for students to share what they know.

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19 Jun 09

Students' summer reading reports go online in real time : Local News : Memphis Commercial Appeal

  • "Summer reading had gotten really dead," said Caroline Goodman, AP English teacher and outgoing president of the Memphis Shelby Council of Teachers of English. "We as teachers weren't really excited about it anymore, and the students weren't either."
21 May 09

Mosaic Listserve Tools

Excellent resources for helping students discuss what they read. Perfect for teachers struggling to get conversation around literature started.

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Index of Unit Strategies

What a fantastic resource for ELA teachers! Reading strategies worked out for many of the traditional novels in 6-12 curricula.

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07 Apr 09

'We don't need a Twittericulum' - Telegraph

  • "A lot of youngsters who saw that on television thought it as a
    game in which the towers would just rise up from the dust, whole again. It
    really is that frightening."
    • While I am sure she has some data to back this up, why include it here? It's just throwing gas onto her own fire. - on 2009-04-07
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  • How would one learn that by simply interacting with a
    computer screen?"
    • Who in their right mind would advocate this anyway? - on 2009-04-07
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15 Mar 09

DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed

This is a great site that will send you a chapter a day from a book. Some cost money, but many are free.

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