Engaging Adolescent Learners

Look for my review of Releah Relent's Engaging Adolescent Learners at ira.org/library

Follow the links to the February 2005 edition of JAAL (Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy).

Strategies for Reading in Mathematics

I am doing literacy workshops for all content area teachers. There are not many strategy books out there. I did find a McRel Book called Teaching Reading in Mathematics. We found some really good strategies there.

I am also interested in clear strategies to help kids summarize what they are reading, especially short pieces of text.

Louisa Moats and Dick Allington

I am interested in responses to Louisa Moat's article on titled Whole Language High Jinx, and Richard Allington's response to same.

Reading and Math

In a couple of weeks I will be facilitating workshops for middle school math teachers who are trying to help their students access difficult math texts. I have been researching resources, but find little available. We do have Doug Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning.

I would be interested in ways math and reading teachers model their thinking to help students access the math textbook at the middle school level

My First Post

Hello. My name is Maggie Dolbow and I am a literacy consultant for various school districts in southern New Hampshire. I will post my thoughts on literacy education on this blog from time to time.