Reading/Writing Workshop

February 25, 2017 6

Let’s face it — for most students, literary analysis is just plain hard. And teaching it is even [...]

October 8, 2015 4

Many of us were taught vocabulary by writing down a list of words and looking up their definitions in the [...]

September 6, 2015 1

Our school has a strong reading culture,but in recent years our secondary students were [...]

February 9, 2015 2

One Tuesday morning, our Parent Support Group suggested we host a readathon at school. Because the word [...]

November 24, 2014 0

I just finished reading Deborah Wiles’ captivating historical fiction novel, Revolution, and it is [...]

November 7, 2014 0

Teachers greeting students Every year, near the end of October, we harness the creative fun of Halloween [...]

October 22, 2014 2

At The Community for Learning, we teach writing through a writing workshop model (see the work of Nancie [...]

October 14, 2014 12

Several parents have asked me to write about the philosophy we use at TCFL to teach reading. Parents can see [...]

August 17, 2014 2

7th Grade reading club This summer I had a huge “aha” moment about teaching. I’ve always [...]

August 5, 2014 0

The old saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear” rings true over and over [...]

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