Why Read? Ten Reasons by Kelly Gallagher

In his book, Deeper Reading, Kelly Gallagher lays out ten reasons that students should read.  His ten statements resonated with me, and as I read, I envisioned them as a poster that I could use in my classroom to keep the conversation going about reading.  I proposed...

Evolving Literacy

Literacy has been on my mind again lately. It should be. I’m an English teacher, after all. What I have really been thinking about, though, is the rapid change in what it means to be literate for the future. Some people wonder whether books will die in an era of...