How to Teach a Novel

Q: My students are reluctant to speak in some classes. What's worse is that in other classes, two or three students monopolize the ent...

Most of us have heard of the inspirational TED Talks . Slightly less well-known are the Ignite Talks , which allow speakers only five minu...

Q: How can I get my students to interact with their text? So many students seem to read without stopping to reflect or make meaning of the ...

Some time ago I shared some Mentor Text Display Cards for both picture books and novels  featuring exemplar texts with annotations defini...

In a recent workshop titled " Building Interactive Engagement with Text ," I argued that opportunity and motive are two variab...