kitchen table math, the sequel

re: Jen's Star Spangled Banner reading comprehension lesson , Karen H points out that the Gettysburg address offers a terrific example o...

Back in March (!) I posted a "jumbled sentence" from Carol Jago's book : To just stop and look at things, ideas and even if...

I love this lesson ---- I do SAT tutoring and closely followed the posts about reading comprehension (and the lack of skills given to build...

3 factoids: Public schools stopped teaching grammar decades ago because the NCTE believes teaching grammar in isolation does not improve w...

It's online ! One of my very favorite books.

18 years old today. I woke up in the middle of the night, thinking about their birthdays. I thought about kitchen table math, too. This ...

I thought people might like to hear about college visits. (BTW, our son is a rising junior.) Perhaps others would like to add their experien...

From my notes from the Morningside Academy Summer School Institute , in this scenario students are reading words on the board out loud: Co...

I write this post to another board a few years ago to explain a major cause of these errors as in Catherine's example : In fact ther...

I've just read the transcript of Hawkins' talk, which is posted along with the video. Maybe this is overstating matters, but on a...

Haven't watched it yet, but it's probably worth the time. Here's the blurb: Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a ne...

One current [research] focus is on the so-called "achievement gap," which refers to the lower achievement of poor and minority ch...

When I first started writing kitchen table math, with Carolyn Johnston , Carolyn told me that fractions are the math cliff . Yesterday, Gl...

Teri leaves this account of 'nonconscious reading' : I have wondered a bit on this topic, particularly because I do a WHOLE LOT of r...

re: readers predicting and mis-predicting words , here are Stanovich and Stanovich: Another problem concerns the assumptions that have bee...

in Education Week: After more than 80 years of providing student-friendly twists on current events, the classroom magazine Weekly Reader w...

I came across the original source of Horace Mann's characterization of letters (and words!) as "skeleton-shaped, bloodless, ghostly...

CT's experience meeting her daughter's Kindergarten teachers : Recent anecdote. My daughter is starting kindergarten (part-time) t...

Why don't constructivists like phonics? I had always assumed E.D. Hirsch's account explained it : constructivists are the philosop...

I've emailed palisadesk & now am posting. Here is a reading issue I've seen before: a student who, reading out loud, replaces ...