Seven years ago when I was home on maternity leave, I found it really hard to get through the sorts of rich novels I’d devoured pre-baby. Sleep deprived, I struggled with remembering everything that had happened across the text and started abandoning books halfway through. Then, a friend handed me Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad […]
Tag Archives: Jennifer Serravallo
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Rethinking “Just Right”: Reader and Text Variables that Impact Comprehension by Jennifer Serravallo
posted by CBethM
Supporting Independent Readers and Independent Reading by Jennifer Serravallo
posted by CBethM
Remember when independent reading was called DEAR? Or SSR? Or SQUIRT? (Or maybe I am the only one with that last one? It stands for Sustained Quiet Uninterrupted Reading Time). Acronyms aside, it looked like this: Kids chose whatever they wanted, teachers sat their desks to get through the paperwork that was piling up, or, […]
