Literacy Processes

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This week focuses on routines and processes for developing readers, writers, thinkers and leaders.

1. When is a fail not a fail? As I noted in this post, it is when we examine our learning journey and appreciate the process as much as any outcome.

2. Ryder Carroll, creator of The Bullet Journal Method, shares in this post why rituals and structures can help cultivate creativity.

3. Why aren’t my kids reading? Some reasons plus a few suggestions to address it are in this article.

4. How do we safely bring kids back to school amid the pandemic? Dr. Atul Gawande offers wisdom from his work in a Boston hospital on what’s necessary for this process (The New Yorker).

5. Reading-Writing Connections: Simplifying Literary Analysis

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