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March 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 6
Reading to Learn
Feature Articles
Perspectives / Reviving Reading
Marge Scherer
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The Case for Slow Reading
Thomas Newkirk
To truly comprehend and appreciate texts, students need to read more slowly.
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Reading Through a Disciplinary Lens
Connie Juel, Heather Hebard, Julie Park Haubner and Meredith Moran
How to guide readers to approach texts through the frame of a particular academic discipline.
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Texts That Matter
Gay Ivey
Multiple informative texts offer readers more than conventional compendiums do.
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I Got Grouped
Cris Tovani
The sting of being grouped can give struggling students inadvertent permission to give up.
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Becoming a Classroom of Readers
Donalyn Miller
To become good readers, students need to read and read and read.
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Reversing Readicide
Kelly Gallagher
Which practices hasten the decline of reading, and which boost the reading habit?
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From Great Texts—to Great Thinking
Cynthia Barry
Does great literature still speak to the young? Yes, when they have the chance to probe and question profound ideas.
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Special Topic / Why We Should Stop Bashing State Tests
Grant Wiggins
When the questions demand reasoning and inference, tests can be a teaching tool.
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Making Science Real
Joanne K. Olson and Kouider Mokhtari
Why reading strategies alone won't help students comprehend science concepts.
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Making Reading Meaningful
Ruth Shagoury
How to introduce reading to preschoolers.
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New Horizons in Comprehension
Ellin Oliver Keene
Encouraging students to routinely apply strategies makes them better readers.
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Literacy Starts with the Teachers
William G. Brozo and Douglas Fisher
How to inspire the whole faculty to bolster adolescents' content-area reading skills.
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The Day Reading Became Play
Bruce Hansen
Would a lesson that engaged Kendra be appropriate for Gerard?
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Departments
The Art and Science of Teaching / Summarizing to Comprehend
Robert J. Marzano
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What Research Says About… / Closing the Vocabulary Gap
Jane L. David
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Digitally Speaking / Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social
William M. Ferriter
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The Principal Connection / A Refreshing Conversation
Thomas R. Hoerr
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Themes for Educational Leadership 2010–2011
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ASCD Community in Action
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Journal Staff
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Online Only
Teaching Critical Reading with Questioning Strategies
Larry Lewin
Among the higher level skills our students need is the ability to generate thoughtful questions.
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The Power of Strategies Instruction
Erika Daniels
An urban high school creates a reading support class for 9th graders struggling with reading comprehension.
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What Helps At-Risk Adolescent Readers?
Marie Carbo
Learning-style reading strategies benefit all kinds of readers.
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The Day the Cows Came Home
Jill Ostrow and Jane Wellman
Family books and videos help ELLs practice literacy at school and home.
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Put the Brakes on NASCAR Reading
Barclay T. Marcell
Kids are off and running on their timed speed tests, but do they know what they are reading?
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Book Review
Jamie Greene
Teaching What Really Happened by James W. Loewen
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EL Study Guide
Teresa Preston
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