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Curriculet. Curriculet frees up my time outside of the classroom - no more collecting reading questions, trying to spot-check them, giving points for writing something down, whether or not they actually did the reading or understood it. - Jessica Rice, English Teacher at Summit Preparatory High School With Curriculet, I can not only change our reading instruction on a classroom level by flipping the instruction, but also influence reading instruction on a departmental level by encouraging the department to expand the curriculum: we can read MORE in less time with Curriculet. - Kate Baker, English teacher at Southern Regional high School I cannot WAIT to share this with my colleagues.

Curriculet

This is going to revolutionize the way I can teach info texts, short stories, and excerpts from novels! Text Complexity Resources. Reading in the Brain, by Stanislas Dehaene. Guide/Assess Nonfiction Reading. Reading Literature - a multi-genre reading course. Teaching Reading. 103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading. Reading Comprehension Connection: Start a Sample Lesson!

Invitation to World Literature. Greek, by Euripides, first performed in 405 BCE The passionate loves and longings, hopes and fears of every culture live on forever in their stories.

Invitation to World Literature

Here is your invitation to literature from around the world and across time. Sumerian, 2600 BCE and older Turkish, by Orhan Pamuk, 2000 Greek, by Homer, ca. eighth century BCE Greek, by Euripides, first performed in 405 BCE Sanskrit, first century CE Japanese, by Murasaki Shikibu, ca. 1014 Chinese, by Wu Ch'êng-ên, ca. 1580 Quiché-Mayan, written in the Roman alphabet ca. 1550s French, by Voltaire, 1759 English, by Chinua Achebe, 1959 Spanish, by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967 English, by Arundhati Roy, 1998 Arabic, first collected ca. fourteenth century.

Reading: The Core Skill:The Challenge of Challenging Text. The faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes. Kelly Gallagher &#151 Building Deeper Readers and Writers. Reading for Pleasure. Stephen Krashen explains why we should stop scolding teenagers and their schools Contrary to popular opinion, there is no evidence that teenagers are less engaged in literacy activities today than teenagers of the past.

Reading for Pleasure

Teenagers today do just as much book reading as teenagers did 65 years ago, and it appears that they are more involved in reading and writing in general when we include computer use in the analysis. The true problem in literacy is not related to convincing reluctant teenagers to read: It is providing access to books for those living in poverty.

How Much do Teenagers Read? It is a common perception that teenagers don’t read as much as they used to. Asking questions like “how often do you read for fun,” however, may seriously underestimate how much teenagers read. The Lexile Framework for Reading. Vocabulary Graphic Organizers - Read MHS. Skimming vs. Reading - comments. 30 Reading Activities TYCA Columbus 2011. 4 Steps to Facilitating High-Level Discussions of. Anyone who loves reading will tell you that a great discussion about a story or book can change you—both as a reader and as a person. Even young students can build critical thinking skills and learn to value civic discourse through a properly led discussion.

Here are four ways you can facilitate discussions that will result in intellectual growth in your young students. Train Yourself. Before just jumping into a literature discussion, spend some time studying best practices for classroom discourse. One method we've found that really helps students of all ages is Shared Inquiry, a discussion method that uses shared problem solving to lead students to deep understanding of tough concepts.

Question for you: How do you instill a love of learning in your students? Learn to Read English Online at GCFLearnFree. Reading (General) Reading Comprehension. Reading Comprehension Connection - interactive (readingcomprehensionconnection.com) "The lessons are divided into three categories: Vocabulary in context, including commonly confused and misused words, Reading for Understanding, which helps students master specific reading skills, and Reading Strategy, for developing the ability to make inferences.

Reading Comprehension

Each of the lesson categories is available in two levels: intermediate and advanced. As students work through the lessons they receive constructive feedback and at the end of the lesson a detailed report is generated... " (Education World)