Ideas and Updates from Teachers Affiliated with the Chippewa River Writing Project
After months of research and soul-searching, I’ve come to the realization that I can’t use the terminology of “close reading” in my classes any longer. This has been a long journey for me, as I’ve tried to understand what “close reading” is or should be, and I’ve grown to believe that whatever it is, it […]
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This post is the second in a series designed to connect teachers’ remembered childhood and/or YA independent reading experiences and their current teaching practices to Jeff Wilhelm, Mike Smith, and Sharon Fransen’s new book, Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want and Why We Should Let Them. As a CMU English professor, […]
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Louis (Bud) Kanyo, is a CRWP 2009 Summer Institute Teacher Consultant who is currently a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Bud is also an Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at Mid Michigan Community College. His dissertation research interests focus on comic texts and the cultural/educational stigma often associated with them. The following interview connects […]
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If asking students to develop their voice, stamina, and range of techniques as writers isn’t hard enough, we now have a variety of devices, websites, and apps that students want to use in order to enhance their writing. From Google Docs to Prezis to whatever new app will come out tomorrow, we know that students […]
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This is the second in a series of posts about inquiry-based learning in the first grade classroom. In my last blog post I wrote about the day a student’s dad surprised my first grade class with a preserved alligator head. The surprise developed into an inquiry project through which my students had the opportunity to […]
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