NCTE: High School Readers and Writers
I woke up early on a SATURDAY, so that I could listen to Jeff Wilhelm, author of You Gotta BE the Book and Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys and Penny Kittle, author of Write Beside Them. Both Jeff and Penny work with high school students and they had powerful words...NCTE: Reading Identity
I saw a few reading rock stars this afternoon– spending a delightful ninety minutes watching Franki Sibberson, Debbie Miller, Ann Marie Corgill, and Karen Szymusiak where they discussed methods for building student’s self-identities as readers and writers...It’s a Ning Thing
In a session on engaging students in online literary responses, there were some interesting discussion points about the use of blogs for fostering literary interpretations (ie, students read To Kill a Mockingbird while writing personal blogs about their social world)....