This week recognizes the importance of speaking up and advocating for what’s right.
Another round of excellent responses to Engaging Literate Minds were posted this week on the blog: Building Collective Knowledge Through Conversation by Heather McKay, The Reciprocity of Executive Function and Literacy Development by Rhonda Precourt, and The Benefits of Perspective by Annie Palmer.
During last night’s #g2great Twitter chat with some Engaging Literate Minds authors, the gradual release of responsibility came up. I shared this article from The Reading Teacher, a helpful revisit of this instructional model.
I enjoyed this essay from David Grohl, of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame, about his father, one piece of feedback, and the importance of acceptance (The Atlantic).
Just finished Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Read my brief review here.
Free Digital Resource Round-up: Numerade (online summer camp for STEM-related courses), InferCabularly (visual vocabulary and reasoning program; free for two months), and Google Meet (an alternative to Zoom).
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