Tag Archives: reading

Textbook Fail & Finesse

Posted on June 1, 2015 by markschuldt

Attached below is a PowerPoint presentation detailing a time when the textbook by itself was not sufficient. I was able to fix this in a future lesson and then avoid the failure entirely the following semester. See below… Textbook Fail … Continue reading →

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Bloggery 2: Strategic Reading

Posted on April 22, 2015 by markschuldt

I have two brief observations. First, heading one of chapter six is entitled “Don’t Assign the Whole Textbook.” For the record, in my class I am required to have the kids read the whole text book. From this comes many of … Continue reading →

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Bloggery 1: Textbooks a curse?

Posted on April 15, 2015 by markschuldt

In a word, yes. In this bloggery I will extend Daniels’ and Zemelman’s arguments to my own experience of teaching. Daniels and Zemelman (2014) identify a laundry list of criticisms of content area textbooks, and even summon up some advantages as well. … Continue reading →

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