Another excerpt coming at you from the throes of finalizing Reading Reconsidered. This excerpt is on our two-pronged approach to Vocabulary. To command words is to master both their breadth and their depth. Reading for anything more than basic comprehension relies on the a reader’s capacity to understand both a large number of words (breadth) and also…
Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway and I are busy wrapping up the manuscript of our new book on literacy, Reading Reconsidered. We’ll put it to bed in a few weeks’ time and you should see it on shelves next winter. In the meantime here’s an excerpt from the chapter on Close Reading. The topic is something called…
Posting on embedding non-fiction earlier today made me realize I ought to post something defining the idea more clearly. Here’s a very early draft of (part of) how Colleen, Erica and I discuss it in Reading Reconsidered. Embedding non-fiction is the process of pairing secondary non-fiction texts (usually non-narrative non-fiction) alongside a primary text in an…
Colleen, Erica, and I have been toiling away at our forthcoming book on literacy, Reading Reconsidered. One of the topics we discuss is non-fiction–the importance of reading more of it; the challenges of reading more of it; the importance of knowledge as both a cause and and effect of successful reading. One of the key ideas…
Working on Reading Reconsidered this morning, my book on reading with Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway. Found myself going a bit manifesto in this tiny–but strident–snippet on the power of teaching books–real books- the whole thing: We are strong believers in ‘the power of the book,’ of students building a sustained relationship with a text over…