Russ on Reading

My life outside of my home and my family is animated by three passions: teaching, writing, and acting. I have been pursuing each of these ...

Two weeks ago I posted a research-based response to literacy commentator Tim Shanahan's continuing dismissal of Independent Reading. ...

While many people expressed surprise and some even outrage over Bob Dylan’s selection as the Nobel Prize winner for literature, I must adm...

Today I am pleased to offer a guest post from Cynthia Mershon on the importance of writing teachers being writers themselves. Cynthia is a ...

Independent Reading, sometimes called SSR, DEAR or SQUIRT, is an instructional strategy where students are given time in class to read sel...

In my capacity as Coordinator of College Reading at Rider University in New Jersey, I have the opportunity to teach many students who are,...

The reward we get for reading is meaning. When we read we might be entertained or informed or both, but only if we can get to the meaning.  ...

I begin each of my freshman college reading classes with a vocabulary discussion. Students bring in words from their reading in all subjec...

Why do we read? Of course, you will say we read for pleasure and we read for information and perhaps even we read to become better writers...

Let's get the main idea of this blog post out of the way early. Nonsense words should not be used for decoding instruction. Period. No...