A recent study shows that teachers correcting an English learners’ paper will find more errors if they are correcting it with a red pen than if they are using a blue one: Rutchick and his colleagues argue this demonstrates...
Read MoreOne of the guiding principles of my nineteen year community organizing career was to look at, and think about, the communities where we organize and their residents in terms of their assets and not their deficits. That viewpoint...
Read MoreFactCheckEd from the University of Pennsylvania seems to have some surprisingly good lesson plans. I learned about it from The Big Deal Book Of Technology Newsletter, which is also a good resource with reading. Here is how they...
Read MoreI love using the Picture Word Inductive Model instructional strategy with English Language Learners, and I talk about it extensively in my upcoming book, English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work. The New York...
Read MoreABC Fast Phonics is a pretty darn impressive site for beginning readers to reinforce their understanding of phonics. I’m not a big fan of explicit phonics instruction being a huge part of a curriculum, but I do make it a...
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