"This book explores the value of sharing stories in ways that speak to our hearts and connect learning communities. It grounds this affective work in a discussion of five affective elements of story - healer, inspiration, clarifier, compassion, and connector - and includes narrative discussions, rationale, and contributions from influential educators and children's book creators along with tons of book recommendations and suggestions for direct classroom...

The author provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?

Reading rate and comprehension can mean the difference between success and failure to students. Three strategies for improving both are presented in this program. The first suggests reading during the day, for short periods in a quiet place, for maximum efficiency. One method demonstrates how to divide words into groups on a page as an effective way of improving reading rate. The SQ3R Strategy (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review), developed...

A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man's effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, this book is also a manifesto about the acquisition of intellectual independence. It is a plea for better understanding of the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics in education, and a passionate indictment of a broken school system that lets so-called problem kids slip through the cracks.