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Tag Archives: reading
Motivated Literacy: Mrs. O’Donnell’s Magic Pencils
Greetings from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! For this month’s post, I’d like to write about a memory of magic pencils and a Latin classroom. It goes like this: In the 1980s in high schools across the state … Continue reading
Reading Barefoot
Happy winter holidays from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! Last month, I wrote about literacies of vulnerability and how my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Dahlstrom, cried when she turned to the final page of Where the Red Fern … Continue reading
Reading the Sun, Moon, and Stars: Intergenerational Literacy
Happy October from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! This month, my Dad’s turning 90 and for this blog post I’d like to share one of the stories he’s told us about growing up on the island of Guam … Continue reading
Reading With Purpose This School Year
Hello again from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! In July, I kicked off this teaching reading blog with some thoughts about the categories of “reading” and “literacy” and why they matter for a new school year. For this … Continue reading
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Tagged as elementary reading, ELT reading, reading, teaching reading
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“Literacy” vs. “Reading”: 3 Questions to Consider This Fall
Greetings from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where I’ll be writing this “teaching reading” blog for these next 12 months! To kick things off, I want to look a little at the categories of “reading” and “literacy.” To … Continue reading
How to Improve Reading Comprehension? Team With a Theme
“We don’t read that much at school. Mostly we do our work,” observed Selena, a third grade multilingual learner (MLL). I knew the “work” she was referring to involved reading, but obviously she didn’t think it was real reading. I … Continue reading
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Tagged as reading, reading comprehension, reading strategies, teaching reading, vocabulary
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3 Lessons From a Teacher of Reading Teachers
What can we learn from someone who teaches current and future reading teachers? A lot, as it turns out. I recently heard about Dr. Shuai Zhang when he was featured in a newspaper story about his service work with young … Continue reading
Using Picture Books to Teach Multiculturalism and Challenge Bias
As classrooms become more culturally diverse, culturally sustaining pedagogy is instrumental to fostering feelings of inclusion among all students. Students should be prompted to examine their own racial, ethnic, and cultural identities and their relationships with others who share different … Continue reading
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Tagged as bias, multicultural, multicultural literature, reading, reading resources
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