Zachary Walker threw so many ideas at me in his session it’s taken me a month to digest it all. I picked up so many tips, tricks and tools. However, like he recommends in his session, I came away with 10 ideas/tips that I want to try out. 1. www.govote.at and www.mentimeter.com were great websites…
Month: June 2015
Olathe Summer Conference: Close Reading w/ Doug Fisher
Close reading is designed for texts that are above the students comfort level for independent reading. It is the process of reading a text multiple times from multiple different angles to get a better understanding of the text. There should be a balance in school between stamina reading (quantity) and complex/close reading (quality). One of…