“Instead, I designed the unit with one question in mind: What is in the best interest of my students?” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The key point here bears repeating: I have decided on an argument (“Technology has weakened parenting skills”), but I didn’t start with that argument in mind. Instead, I started by reading lots of data under the umbrella of the unit… — 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 suggests is the opposite of the traditional approach to teaching the argument paper, where a student starts with a claim and then begins to find evidence that supports the claim. Instead, Hillocks says that students should… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share
“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 used for years at National Writing Project sites: “Students need to read like writers and they need to write like readers.” The first half of that statement—“Students need to read like writers”—is especially true when it… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share
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
