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I was thinking about the weather yesterday. It was hot but not humid and I didn’t turn the air conditioner on. It’s also been thundering a lot late at night, with frequent flashes of lightning. Here in Arizona, it’s the monsoon season. But a colleague from back East said she
It’s always exciting to win a prize in a raffle but to be honest, I was a little disappointed when I learned that what I’d won at the recent TeachersPayTeachers Blogger Meet Up was a product for kindergartners, something called SitSpots. Kindergarten was the grade I found most challenging and
I’ve attended lots of conferences and they all are organized in a similar fashion: a keynote address to all participants, breakout sessions devoted to specific aspects of the conference theme or focus, networking opportunities, raffles of some sort and, depending on the size of the conference, exhibits by publishers and
I took a break last Thursday and wrote a post about the Fourth of July and Poldark, my new favorite TV show, but I have a few more books to recommend so this week I’m resuming the series. (This post contains affiliate links. That means that I make a small
Playing versus learning: Is that a dichotomy? A lot of people seem to think it is, as evidenced by the movement–which in itself is a paradox, since they’re not actually getting up and moving around but rather sitting quietly in chairs at desks–to get children in kindergarten reading and writing
What do the Fourth of July and Poldark have in common? And what does Poldark have to do with teaching English Language Learners? Well, I can think of a couple answers to both questions. So in this post, I will take a break from writing book recommendations and discuss something
This was my first year not being in a classroom but had I been teaching, last Friday would have been my final day of the school year, due to making up all the snow days in the winter. After the excitement and chaos of the last week of school, it
Time for a change. I mean that literally, in the sense that this week I am not recommending another literacy-related book and I also mean that in the sense that the demographics of the students attending U.S. public schools is changing. This past school year was the first time that
In last week’s blog post, I recommended a book that discussed how to teach reading: From Reader to Reading Teacher offers a theoretical background for designing and implementing a reading program. This week, I’d like to stay with the topic of literacy since reading and writing are essential skills across
Today is the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and forty English barons at Runnymede. England in 1215 was completely different from the United States in 2015 but the concept of the rule of law that was established by the Magna Carta has resonated
Many English Language Learners need to develop their reading skills. Many teachers of ELLs know how to help students improve their reading comprehension. A disconnect occurs when students need help with basic literacy skills such as developing phonemic awareness. This is especially problematic for adolescent learners who are expected to
A couple weeks ago, I had brunch with two Chinese friends. They were a husband and wife whom I’d first met in Wuhan, China, in the winter of 1990 when I went to teach at the university where they studied and worked. The wife became my first Chinese language teacher
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