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    Multicultural Characters

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     Why Read Urban YA Fiction?
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    Why Read Urban YA Fiction?

    Urban Fiction. Hip-Hop Lit. Street Stories.  “Urban literature for young adults puts human faces to the lives behind the statistics, reminding teen readers — both those who live [...]

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     Why Knock Novel Studies?
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    Why Knock Novel Studies?

    Once the mainstay of Language Arts classrooms, the whole-class, one-size-fits-all novel study is falling out of favour. In our increasingly diverse classrooms, having everyone in the class read [...]

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    STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL LIT CIRCLES

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    LITERATURE CIRCLES and BOOK CLUBS

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     Summer Reading Loss
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    Summer Reading Loss

    By the time students are in high school, there is up to a four-year achievement gap between the affluent and the poor. Practically the entire gap is attributable to summer reading loss.   [...]

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     Shared Reading in Middle and High School
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    Shared Reading in Middle and High School

    Shared Reading is a time-honored tradition in primary classrooms for students who are just learning to read. But is there a place for Shared Reading in upper grades? Shared Reading is an [...]

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     Celebrating National Humor Month!
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    Celebrating National Humor Month!

    National Humor Month was created in April 1976 to bring public awareness to the therapeutic value of humor. Scientific research shows that when we laugh, we reduce stress and pain, build up our [...]

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     Why is the Sports Section So Challenging to Read?
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    Why is the Sports Section So Challenging to Read?

    It’s been said that the Sports Section has the highest readability of any section of the Newspaper! I can believe it, for two reasons: People and Jargon. People’s names are [...]

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    FREE TEACHER’S GUIDE

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    Vocabulary Chunking

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    Personal Narrative Writing

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     Judging Books by their Covers
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    Judging Books by their Covers

    For most adult readers, the cover of a book doesn’t matter much. But for struggling students, the book’s appearance is a top priority.  Does it look like I’ll be able to read [...]

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    How to Get Your Students to Love Writing (Yeah, right)

    Let’s face it, some of our students are never going to love writing (or reading or science or math), no matter what we do.  But writing makes you smarter – in every subject. And [...]

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    HIP BOOKS AND YOUR LITERACY PROGRAM

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     HIP PARTNER PACK for Comparative Thinking
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    HIP PARTNER PACK for Comparative Thinking

    25 novels paired by themes and topics to support comparative thinking

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     Make it MULTIGENRE! A Great Year-end Project
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    Make it MULTIGENRE! A Great Year-end Project

    As warm weather beckons, how can we keep kids engaged in authentic learning till summer break?  My favorite year-end task is the Multigenre Research Project – an independent learning [...]

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    Make it MULTIGENRE

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    Summer Stories

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    Mid-Year Correction

    It’s the nature of our profession that the best teachers are always looking for ways to do things better, smarter, and more effectively, both for themselves and their students. Even if you [...]

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     Why Kids Should Read Scary Stories!
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    Why Kids Should Read Scary Stories!

    We all have different tolerances for fear. Some people go out of their way to confront scary situations; others do their best to avoid them. But all of us can experience “manageable fear” through [...]

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     Hooked on a Series
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    Hooked on a Series

    The fifth-grader in our family recently informed me that she’s reading the Nancy Drew series. The original series ran from 1930 until 2003, then was recently reprised as an updated series [...]

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     The Enduring Appeal of Survival Stories
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    The Enduring Appeal of Survival Stories

    There’s nothing like a good survival story: The conflict is clear, the stakes are as high as they get, and you know exactly what you’re rooting for.      –Todd Olson, The Children’s Book [...]

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     HIP SURVIVAL PACK
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    HIP SURVIVAL PACK

    Survival stories for struggling readers.  10 novels about survival in the snow,  the woods, in the water and in the [...]

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     Greeting Students at the Door:  Helpful or Hype?
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    Greeting Students at the Door: Helpful or Hype?

    We’ve all seen the cute videos on social media of primary teachers giving their students a hug, a handshake or a high five outside the classroom door.  But did you know that PGD – [...]

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    Teacher’s Guide Packs

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     Good Riddance, Round Robin!
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    Good Riddance, Round Robin!

    Recently, a friend shared this story of her 10 year-old granddaughter who has difficulty with reading.  The students were required to take turns reading aloud to the class, and when [...]

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    The Power of Pre-Reading

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     Past Picture Books?  You’ve got to be kidding!
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    Past Picture Books? You’ve got to be kidding!

    In a recent HIP TIP, I defined “tween” readers as “beyond picture books but not yet ready for complicated novels.” Needless to say, I got a lot of pushback from [...]

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     You Mean It’s All Supposed to Make Sense?
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    You Mean It’s All Supposed to Make Sense?

    On long car trips, I would often read to my husband as he drove. I couldn’t believe how often I made a mistake! (Surprisingly often, they involved “mis-guessing” a hyphenated [...]

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     Is Reading Speed Overrated?
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    Is Reading Speed Overrated?

    Counting the number of words a student can read in a minute has become a popular method of measuring that student’s reading fluency. It’s certainly well established that slow, choppy [...]

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     Content or Strategies?
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    Content or Strategies?

    It’s generally accepted these days that the best way to teach reading comprehension is to focus on the strategies good readers use to make sense of text. In fact, I call comprehension [...]

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    JOT SPOTS

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    THEME PACKS

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    Tackling Tough Texts

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     Hey!  What about Prediction?
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    Hey! What about Prediction?

    “Make a prediction about what is going to happen in this book.”  This has probably been the most popular pre-reading routine in schools for time eternal. But in a recent HIP TIP on [...]

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    Impact of School Closures

    Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov. 25, 2020 Click to read more.

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    Message to Customers

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    HIP Nonfiction Package

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    Reading Persuasive Text

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    Mind Maps

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    Persuasion, Opinion, Argument

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     In Defense of Easy Reading
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    In Defense of Easy Reading

    I was once asked to judge a public speaking contest (remember those?) in which a middle grade student spoke about the author R.L. Stine. “Goosebumps was the first book I ever read all the way [...]

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     On the Level with “Leveled” Reading
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    On the Level with “Leveled” Reading

    Poor old Emmett Betts is getting a pretty bad rap these days. Betts was the guy who introduced us to independent, instructional and frustration reading levels almost 70 years ago. Betts [...]

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    PAIR-SHARE

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     Preventing the Pitfalls of Pair-Share
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    Preventing the Pitfalls of Pair-Share

    The “Think-Pair-Share” model was developed over 30 years ago to help students clarify and articulate their thinking. Its power has been documented in many research studies, and for good reason. [...]

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    Higher Level Thinking

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    Setting

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    NAVIGATING NONFICTION

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    COMPREHENSION

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    Why Read Aloud to Older Students

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    Three Pocket Writing Folder

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    The Publishing Journey

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    Sticky Note Toolkit

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    Assessment

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     Routines and Procedures
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    Routines and Procedures

    “An ineffective teacher disciplines. An effective teacher manages.” So says classroom management expert Harry Wong, who attests that discipline shouldn’t be necessary in [...]

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     Are we over-diagnosing dyslexia?
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    Are we over-diagnosing dyslexia?

    I recently came across an article called “Your Child’s Dyslexia Diagnosis is B.S.”  by Julian Elliot, a professor of Education at Durham University in the UK.  According to Elliot, dyslexia is [...]

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     Making the Most of Multiple-Guess
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    Making the Most of Multiple-Guess

    Confession: I am a recovering test developer.  But those two years I spent as the lead consultant on a large-scale reading test taught me a lot about the assessment/evaluation process. And my [...]

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    BLOG ARCHIVES

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     RULES OF ENGLISH THAT WE THOUGHT WE KNEW
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    RULES OF ENGLISH THAT WE THOUGHT WE KNEW

    Never end a sentence with a preposition. And never start a sentence with “AND”. These golden rules of writing were drummed into most of us in school – and many of us still teach them to our [...]

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    Background Knowledge

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     “Boy Books” and “Girl Books”?
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    “Boy Books” and “Girl Books”?

    Whenever I open this can of worms, I get feedback saying that boys can, should and will read whatever girls read.  And I don’t disagree! But here’s one fact no one can argue with: the [...]

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     Let’s Stop Teaching the “Hamburger Paragraph”
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    Let’s Stop Teaching the “Hamburger Paragraph”

    I was once asked by a group of teachers, “How many sentences should there be in a paragraph?”   I was a little taken aback by the question but replied, “It depends on the [...]

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    Self-Monitoring Comprehension

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     WHY KIDS SHOULD READ NOVELS DURING SSR TIME
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    WHY KIDS SHOULD READ NOVELS DURING SSR TIME

    Part of me believes that kids should be able to read whatever they want during SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) Time, whether it’s magazines, manuals or comic books – as long as they’re reading [...]

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