I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“When students are taught to approach argument through inquiry, good things happen: they choose topics worthy of arguing, they gain ownership (through choice) of… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“That is to say, the process of working through an argument is the process of inquiry” (2011, xxii; emphasis in original). The approach Hillocks… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“In other words, in an age of great shifts in education, very little has shifted when it comes to the teaching of adolescent readers.… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“the teacher should model by writing—and think out loud while writing—in front of the class.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Valuing reading” is often a euphemism for preparing students to pass mandated multiple-choice exams, and in dragging students down this path, schools are largely… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“When we think about how to move our students into deeper levels of reading, it is helpful to remember an expression that has been… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
