Reading Comprehension

Teaching With Tablets: For Young Readers, It's Interaction vs. Distraction

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Education, Apple, Apps, Children's Books, Books, Textbooks, Book Apps, Ipad, Kindle, Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Reading, Etextbooks, Education News
Kirk Cheyfitz

Sticking to retreads makes no use of all the powerful technological innovations now at our command. But creating tablet cartoons has the potential to kill off reading altogether.

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Is Literacy A Must-Teach For All Subjects?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Teachers, Pisa, Subject Matter Literacy, Secondary Literacy Pilot, Education News

When students learn about the genetic code or pore though Huck Finn, do they really understand what they're reading? That's what New York schools ...

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Educating for Democracy: Good Writing -- The Way It Used to Be?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Writing, Reading Comprehension, Educational Standards, New York News
Joel Shatzky

As a teacher of good writing practices for over forty years, I have noticed that the quality of the writing in my classes seemed to be declining. I felt that the writing was barely of junior high school quality.

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