Why the Read-Aloud?
Hearing books read aloud has the ability to transport people to faraway places and is a powerful instructional tool, but a read-aloud is more than just reading a book to a group of students. Read More →
Ashley Perkins
Bio
Ashley is a lead trainer, program designer, developer, author and mentor coach. She uses her experience as a high school classroom teacher, writing cluster leader and literacy coach to work on various projects, including the federally funded Striving Readers adolescent literacy project. She is a Language Arts specialist and focuses her expertise on other ELA teachers and foundational literacy, including as part of CTL’s work on the federal Promise Neighborhoods planning grant.
Posts by Ashley Perkins
Non-Fiction Articles Published by Lexile Levels
We know that for students to be ready for the complexity of college and career texts, all students need opportunity to closely read literary and informational complex texts with appropriate and necessary scaffolding. Read More →
Was Life in the Middle Ages Really a Fairytale, Continued
Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. … Read More →
Was Life in the Middle Ages Really a Fairy Tale?
Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. … Read More →
Makeover a Classroom in a Weekend
Recently I attended a conference session where the principal provided an overview of how her school pays attention to student centered classrooms. Early into her session, I heard her say that she conducts… Read More →
What is digital literacy?
Digital literacy is the skills, knowledge, creativity and attitudes that are necessary to be able to use digital media for learning and mastering in the Knowledge Society. It is this literacy that builds a bridge between skills… Read More →
Beating Summer Reading Slide
It’s late August and students, parents and teachers are sliding into back to school routines. Lunchboxes have been chosen. Backpacks have been selected. Notebooks have been purchased. … Read More →
Addressing Summer Reading Loss
Summer reading is the single summer activity that is most related to summer learning (Heyns, 1978). However, summer reading experiences… Read More →
The Best-laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry
How do we make right a lesson that has gone wrong? This is the question teacher Sarah Brown Wessling addresses in her video When a … Read More →
Simply Assign Complex Texts?
What makes a text complex? Is it the structure? Is it sentence length? Is it student motivation? Text complexity is made up of all these … Read More →