Comments on Classroom in the Cloud: How to Get Students Reading Silently and Independe...

It is extremely important for teachers to model re...

2009-09-30T21:19:22.392-04:00

It is extremely important for teachers to model reading when students are expected to do it. The research backs up what you learned by accident. Well done and keep it up - you just may turn someone into a life long reader.

I, too, learned this same lesson years ago in my 7...

2009-09-14T15:34:09.774-04:00

I, too, learned this same lesson years ago in my 7th grade ELA classroom. You have to model for kids the expectation of the behavior you want to see. It's amazing how something so simple can make such a big difference!

BTW, we used to have those study halls too. We called them "Read and Feeds!"

Hope you have a successful year, John!

@Melissa - Absolutely! Even clicking on links post...

2009-09-14T15:15:02.995-04:00

@Melissa - Absolutely! Even clicking on links posted on Twitter by other teachers is a tremendously valuable time-waster, err... professional activity!

That's great! I guess you wouldn't get to...

2009-09-14T15:11:12.118-04:00

That's great! I guess you wouldn't get to read blogs at this time since it would look like you were playing catch up. One could grow so much professionally by just reading other educator's blogs for 20 minutes each day.