During a recent reading lesson in my 2nd grade classroom, I asked my students to explain the central idea of a short passage. A few hands went up right away. Other students stared at the page or ...
When I was a kid, I remember watching as a neighborhood boy was chased out of his house by his mother. She ran after him, shouting, “I’ll teach you to back-talk me!” I was confused. Surely, this boy ...
To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...
Kindness 101 is a program that uses the stories CBS News finds in our "On the Road" series to teach kindness and character. The stories are paired with lesson plans created by a nonprofit at Iowa's ...
Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
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