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Let's Re-Learn How to Read for the Common Core

Stephen Chiger | Posted 03.23.2013 | College
Read More: Literacy, Education, Education Reform, Close Reading, Common Core, Literature, College Prep, College Preparedness, College News
Stephen Chiger

The Common Core is a reminder of the credo literature professors live by. Language is the building block of great sentences, great paragraphs, great chapters, and great books. We cannot take it for granted.

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The Instructor's Side of the Reading Covenant

Matthew McCluskey | Posted 12.24.2012 | College
Read More: Textual Analysis, Engaged Learning, Education, Critical Reading, Close Reading, College, College Reading, Pedagogy, College Professors, High School, Higher Education, Teaching, Reading, College News
Matthew McCluskey

When we make sound pedagogical choices on reading, we can dramatically enhance students' abilities to work with all kinds of challenging texts. When we struggle, classrooms can become frustrating, unchallenging, or disorienting places.

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Jane Austen Weekly: Elizabeth Bennet's Brain Scan

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 12.11.2012 | Books
Read More: Jane Austen Novels, Cognitive Science, Jane Austen, Fmri, Mansfield Park, Brain Scan, Pride and Prejudice, Neuroscience, English Literature, Brain, Cni, Close-Reading, Elizabeth Bennet, Books News
Susan Celia Greenfield

In Pride and Prejudice, the reward for meticulous critical scrutiny is self-consciousness, intellectual expansion and moral growth. Long before the invention of fMRIs, Jane Austen knew that close reading was good for the brain... and for the soul.

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Jane Austen Weekly: The Brain and Mind

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 12.05.2012 | Books
Read More: Jane Austen Novels, Close Reading, Jane Austen, Michigan State University, Fordham University, Sense and Sensibility, Salon, Mansfield Park, Blakey Vermeule, Fmri, Laura Miller, Free Indirect Discourse, Natali Phillips, Reading for Pleasure, Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging, Alan Richardson, Lisa Zunshine, Books News
Susan Celia Greenfield

Among her countless accomplishments, Jane Austen is making news in the field of neuroscience.

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