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Sunday, June 21, 2015

You’ve Got to Be Taught

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These are the opening lines to a song from the musical South Pacific written by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1949. You've got to be...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

In Praise of School Librarians

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Today a word about school librarians and how important they are to the goal of bringing literacy to children. I suppose first of all we...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Chris Christie Opts Out of Common Core

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Hespe and Christie How might we go about "revising" the Common Core? I have an image I cannot get out of my head. New Jerse...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Stupid Governor's Tricks

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Now that David Letterman has exited stage left, taking his Top Ten Lists and Stupid Pet Tricks with him, Russ on Reading is ready to s...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Hoosier Daddy

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Russ on Reading is on the road this week, visiting my son, Bruce, and daughter-in-law, Jennie, at Indiana University in Bloomington. Bruce...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Captioned Television: Developing Readers at School and at Home

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Today's guest post is by my favorite literacy specialist, Cynthia Mershon. Besides her many years as a teacher,Cynthia has been a c...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Putting the Student and Teacher at the Center of Reading Instruction

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Take a moment and look at the chart below and ask yourself, “As a teacher and/or parent which of these two approaches to learning to read...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The Reading Strategies Book, by Jennifer Serravallo: A Review

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Have you ever thought, “Boy, I wish someone would write a book that brought together all the great reading instruction strategies I have ...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Derailing the Public Schools

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As yet we don’t know what caused the horrific crash of the Amtrak train in Philadelphia this week. Human error? Mechanical malfunction? D...