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Reading Black History Month at Dar America
Spencer Salas
Happy February from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! For this post, to celebrate Black History Month, I’d like to write about the power of public libraries and how I came to read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. In 1991, … Continue reading
Motivated Literacy: Mrs. O’Donnell’s Magic Pencils
Spencer Salas
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
Spencer Salas
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
Spencer Salas
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
Spencer Salas
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
Spencer Salas
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
Barbara Gottschalk
“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
Barbara Gottschalk
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