Here are 10 Questions about Struggling Readers to Ask at Teacher Conferences. Teachers should be prepared to answer them.

I have spent much of my life as a model… of reading comprehension. An advocate of classroom read-alouds, I discovered early that I could help to improve reading comprehension skills with little preparation on my part—by simply analyzing out loud how I comprehend text while I read aloud to the class. Here is a list of prompts to keep in mind.

I loved sharing the excitement and fond memories encountered during my summer reading. I often read a paragraph or showed pictures from my books, even though they were for adults.

I started with decorations. Papel Picado means “perforated paper.”  This art is usually intricately designed, with several different historical references as well.  But they looked like I could turn them into rectangle-shaped paper snowflakes.