by admin | Jun 28, 2011 | Blog
One of my fondest summer memories is of going with my mom to the branch library not far from our home in suburban Philadelphia. We’d generally go in the evening, while it was still light out but not quite as hot and sticky as during the day. We would climb the...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | May 26, 2011 | Blog
In my last post, I laid out a simple process for getting students familiar with your textbook before you ask them to use it. In a way, we can think of that process as the foundational “pre-reading” strategy that goes global, not specific to one piece of...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
In my last post, I talked about the ways in which teachers can better engage students in active reading of the textbook in their classrom – those during reading strategies that promote interaction between student and text, and help to build habits of thinking...
by admin | Dec 14, 2010 | Blog
Are you concentrating as you read this? Are you sure? Will you pause in your reading and click on the hyperlink a few lines down…and then perhaps forget to come back to this blog post? A recent article in the New York Times (“Growing Up Digital: Wired...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Oct 15, 2010 | Blog
In my last post, I put my cards on the table about informational reading. I think we have had far too many distractions for far too long about the lack of reading skills that justify lecture, and don’t get me started on photocopying and handing out teacher...