Tag: reading

Ordinary Life

Education & Learning
The man I love turned 50 yesterday. A milestone event, cataclysmic in its ordinarity really. Just live long enough...

Good Enough

Education & Learning
It’s been so long since I wrote, that I forgot my own website address. It’s not that there haven’t been...

How to Combat Summer Reading Slide with Students

Education & Learning
I have 43 school days left and I can already feel it. That quiet guilt that starts sneaking in...

Reading Was Never Meant to Compete

Education & Learning
We talk about reading as if it is in a race. As if every time a kid picks up...

When a Child Says There Are No Good Books: A Tool for Conferring

Education & Learning
All year I have been working with this one child. A good reader. Bright. Funny. And yet he hates reading....

When a Child Says They Hate Reading: What to Ask Next

Education & Learning
It seems, no matter what I do, it still happens. Year after year. I started this work in 2010 and...

Two Different Loses

Education & Learning
What we track. And what we miss. I keep thinking about the ones who came to us loving books. You know...

Lessons in Genre—and in Failure

Education & Learning
We have been studying genres in 3rd grade. Something so simple, and yet such a powerful key to unlocking...