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Explore the structure of I Hate Reading. 

"This book is an attempt to reconsider and reexamine reading joy, reading achievement, and affective processes. It is intended to help educators understand and implement the practices I discovered that mentor students through a process of becoming engaged in their reading development." - I Hate Reading

Learn about the ubiquity of shame, shame in the classroom, from "good readers" to authentic readers, vulnerability as a path to authentic reading, and more in the first chapter of I Hate Reading. 

In this introduction from Text Structures and Fables, Gretchen Bernabei and Jayne Hover outline the many ways fables are the perfect teaching tools to encourage thorough, exploratory thinkers and writers, and preview practical teaching methods to introduce fables to your classroom.

In this lesson from Text Structures and Fables, you'll learn how to help students get into a habit of generating a text-based, in-depth writing response. A helpful teaching note and student samples are included.

Welcome to the book study for Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum's The Responsive Writing Teacher, Grades K-5: A Hands-on Guide to Child-Centered, Equitable Instruction. We have deliberately designed this book study to be collaborative so that most weeks the group is splitting the recommended in-class activities among the members of the book study.

Shame-bound readers want someone to notice them. It’s true. But then what does a teacher do to help students? In this webinar, participants will learn about Gershen Kaufman’s seminal research on shame and how it can be applied to the reading classroom to build relationships, make vulnerability ok, and bring out every student’s aptitude -and appetite – for books.

In this introduction, the author defines poetry pauses and their purpose.

This resource includes some quotes gathered from throughout the book that might be useful in the classroom.

This resource shares how students can practice bouncing in and out of formal and informal language through text translations.

This resource outlines how to use memory maps, when to use them, and why they work.

In this introduction to Fighting Fake News, the authors explore fake news and where we find it, how it can affect us, and why it can be dangerous and problematic for today’s students.