Guest post by Julia Swanner, Baylor University Intern, and Liz Hagins, Midway ISD Teacher The preface: In our PreAP 8th grade English class, my mentor teacher and I were noticing a severe lack of enthusiasm for reading expository writing, specifically breaking down passages to get to the core of them. We implemented Kylene Beers’s nonfiction “signposts” […]
Blog
Teaching Poetry and Reading Strategies: Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets, by Kwame Alexander
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on poetry session to your campus ** For week three, I thought I’d lighten it up a bit! This collection of poems celebrating poets is incredible and just makes me happy. The range of poets celebrated in Out of Wonder is wide, and […]
Teaching Poetry and Reading Strategies: A Poison Tree, by William Blake
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** I’ll admit it, I have a dark side. Those who know me say it’s deeply hidden behind nervous giggles and an approachable demeanor, but I’m drawn to dark literature. “A Poison Tree,” by William […]
Teaching Poetry and Reading Strategies: Harlem, by Langston Hughes
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on poetry session to your campus ** I have three poems that I absolutely love introducing to students. One of those poems is Harlem by Langston Hughes. I love it because it is fun to read out loud and the students […]
Readers’ Workshop: Independent Reading Ideas
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on Readers’ Workshop or Guided Reading session to your campus ** One thing we all know as reading teachers is that students need time to read. Students must be practicing the act of reading consistently, with things they want to read, […]
One Is Not Enough: Writing Multiple Drafts in a Writers’ Workshop
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on Writers’ Workshop session to your campus ** In a true Writers’ Workshop, students are busy working on drafts of multiple works at the same time. While I believe that there are some aspects of frameworks like Writers’ Workshop that are left […]
The Thinking Part of Writing: Editing and Revising
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Anyone who knows me knows I’m a strong proponent of Writers’ Workshop and making sure students in grades K-12 are writing – EVERY DAY. Writing is hard and if we want students to […]
Student Reading Ability is More than a Level
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Disclaimer before you begin reading this post: I am not anti-leveling students. Assessing students, with any program, and getting a ballpark idea of their reading level is a great starting point. I do firmly believe, however, […]