Kelly Gallagher

Identifies the elements of an effective reading lesson, and presents strategies teachers may use to help secondary students read and understand challenging fiction and nonfiction books.

Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12

Deeper Reading

Jeni Enjaian

Unlike "Readicide," this book is designed for deep study, pun intended. I intend to pull this book back out this coming summer as I work on redesigning my lessons for the next school year. (As long as I am still teaching ELA and the same grade level...if I teach something else next year I will be designing the lessons rather than redesigning them.) I love Gallagher's approach to teaching literature. I would have loved to have been one of his students. That is not a slam against my own high school English teachers. Although I do not remember my freshman English teacher, I dearly loved both my sophomore and junior year teacher as well as my senior English teacher, primarily because what I love about them is that they used techniques such as the ones advocated by Gallagher in their own lessons. Although in the future I hope to transition to teaching History, as long as I teach English, I want to be the best English teacher I can be. Careful study and application of this book and the concepts expounded upon within will go a long way.
I highly recommend this book to all teachers, especially English teacher.

Deeper Reading Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12

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