Approaches to the Common Core: Why Annotation Matters
The following is a guest post from Sarah Tantillo, author of The Literacy Cookbook. Tantillo discusses how a focus on annotation skills can improve test scores and prepare students for college. This...
View ArticleReading: An Excerpt from Sarah Tantillo’s The Literacy Cookbook
“Reading is not like making Kool-Aid: you can’t just add water and stir.” The Literacy Cookbook is filled with classroom-tested techniques for teaching reading comprehension to even the most...
View ArticleSarah Tantillo
Sarah Tantillo is a literacy consultant who has taught high school English and Humanities in both suburban and urban public schools for fourteen years, including seven years at the high-performing...
View ArticleFREE Workshop on “Connecting Reading, Writing, and Test-Prep Instruction”...
If you live in Northern New Jersey or New York City, you might want to attend this free workshop at the Springfield, New Jersey, Barnes & Noble, on April 17, from 5:00-7:00pm. The topic is...
View ArticleImproving Students’ Reading Comprehension
An article posted yesterday in the New York Times examined students’ performances in math and reading, finding that students are collectively performing better in math than in reading across a number...
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