Category Archives: SPORTS

Mini-Lesson: Turning Good Readers into GREAT Readers!

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Angela Maiers • 675 Comments

What do great readers do? How would you answer this question? How would your students? As GREAT readers we… read for meaning understand and think about Big Ideas think deeply about the message and meaning as it relates to ourselves and the world we recognize how genre, text structure, and medium influence the message and… Continue Reading

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Writing in the 21st Century

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Angela Maiers • 883 Comments

NCTE really gets it!  They get that 21st Century literacy is not about technology – it's about powerful communication. As I read Kathi Yancey's recent report on Writing in the 21st Century this point came through in many ways: Writing is life work not desk work – in the 21st Century we are ALL citizen journalist…. Continue Reading

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