Moving the Needle on Adolescent Reading
“I used to assign reading, now I teach reading.” With these words, Josh Zajdler, Cohort One
participant gets to the heart of what the Advancing Adolescent Reading Initiative
(AARI) is all about.
The Advancing Adolescent Reading Initiative (AARI) is an in-depth professional
development program established to provide secondary teachers with access to learning
opportunities and resources aimed at building instructional capacity in the area of adolescent
reading instruction and intervention.
Questions for discussion around the staff room table
1. To what extent do you teach reading vs. assign reading?
2. How can you begin to make the shift to teaching reading in the content areas?
3. What supports do you need to move your practice to teaching reading?
http://www.industrymailout.com/Industry/Home/5548/23974/448493/May%20newsletter.
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Tools for Teaching: Developing Active Readers
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/developing-active-readers-strategies-rebecca-alber
“I used to assign reading, now I teach reading.” With these words, Josh Zajdler, Cohort One
participant gets to the heart of what the Advancing Adolescent Reading Initiative
(AARI) is all about.
The Advancing Adolescent Reading Initiative (AARI) is an in-depth professional
development program established to provide secondary teachers with access to learning
opportunities and resources aimed at building instructional capacity in the area of adolescent
reading instruction and intervention.
Questions for discussion around the staff room table
1. To what extent do you teach reading vs. assign reading?
2. How can you begin to make the shift to teaching reading in the content areas?
3. What supports do you need to move your practice to teaching reading?
http://www.industrymailout.com/Industry/Home/5548/23974/448493/May%20newsletter.
Tools for Teaching: Developing Active Readers
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/developing-active-readers-strategies-rebecca-alber
