In Review: Storytelling and Disability in the Clasroom

Storytelling and Disability in the Classroom: A Pre-Service Teacher’s Review of Disfigured by Amanda Leduc Reviewed by Julia Miller Who am I and what do I want to understand better as a teacher? I am a pre-service teacher attending Oklahoma State University. As I prepare …

In Review: Trust Me! I Can Read

Lamping, S, & Woodring Blase, Dean (2012). Trust Me! I Can Read: Building From Strengths In The High School English Classroom. Teachers College Press. Reviewed by Garrett Davis Who am I? My name is Garrett Davis, and I am currently a student at Oklahoma State …

In Review: Readicide

Gallagher, K. (2009). Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. Stenhouse Publishers. Reviewed by Kade Copenhaver Who am I and what do I want to understand better as a teacher? As an undergraduate student and preservice secondary English educator, …

In Review: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

Reviewed by Sheyenne Mitchell-Brown Who am I and what do I want to understand better as a teacher? I am a pre-service teacher who picked up this book wanting to know how I– a white woman– could build my future classroom on a foundation of …

In Review: Teaching Literacy

Fisher, D., Frey, N., Hattie, J., & Thayre, M. (2017). Teaching Literacy in the Visible LearningClassroom, Grades 6-12. Corwin. by Elsa Berry The text I am selecting to review today is IMPACT: Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John …

In Review: Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

Tovani, C. (2004). Do I really have to teach reading? Content comprehension, grades 6-12. Stenhouse Publishers. Reviewed by Emma Amick Who am I and what do I want to understand better as a teacher?Hi! My name is Emma Amick, and I am a pre-service teacher …

In Review: Helping English Learners to Write

Olson, C. B., Scarcella, R. C., & Matuchniak, T. (2015). Helping English learners to write: Meeting common core standards, grades 6-12. Teachers College Press. Reviewed by Bailey Davenport Why this Book? Working part-time as an English teacher to International adults, I regularly find myself staring …

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Color Personality Poems

Welcome to Day 5 of the November Open Write. Thank you to Kim Johnson, Katrina Morrison, and Tammi Belko for nurturing our poetic living this month! If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you …

Ekphrastic Poetry

Welcome to Day 4 of the November Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …

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Welcome to Day 3 of the November Open Write. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, capable hands of today’s host, so just read the prompt below and then, …