Topic: Kelly Gallagher

How much struggle is productive for your students? How much is counterproductive? Finding that tipping point can be tricky, but as you navigate these decisions, consider the following: the value of confusion; resiliency; growth mindset; the zone of proximal development; and rigorous lessons.

Six practices for teaching poetry: begin with play, have students contribute to poetry discussions in a variety of ways, have students write poems, teach the language of poetry, ask students to immerse themselves in poetry study, and require students to publicly share poems.

5 moves teachers can make before, during, and after reading. The focus should be preparing students to read with purpose, and make meaning through discussion and reflective questions.

The cost of caring for others can numb and desensitize you. How do we stay engaged in the work when we're drained?

Ten suggestions on how teachers can help students build background knowledge.

When thinking about how to build our students’ vocabularies, it helps to consider that we learn words incrementally, through multiple exposures, and in waves; the difference between word breadth and depth; and when you learn one word, you learn multiple words.

What if you could use AI to help students find their writing voice?

Always write first. It's the most critical rule when bringing AI into the writing classroom. So when in the writing process should we go to AI and what are the guardrails we can put in place for our teaching?

Are you an English teacher wondering how AI can enhance your classroom?

To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff is now available as an audiobook! Listen to the book in author Kelly Gallagher's own voice.

At this mid-year point, are you thinking about how to reignite students' passion for reading in this age of digital distractions and high-pressure classrooms?

Why aren't students reading anymore? And what can educators do about it?

Building background knowledge moves students away from fake reading and into long reading with books.

Deciding what to teach is getting harder. Kelly Gallagher shares 5 big ideas any given curriculum should do to encourage developing background knowledge.

To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff is now available! Watch Kelly Gallagher discuss his renowned article of the week to help students build background knowledge.

Why is building background knowledge so crucial for students reading comprehension and critical thinking? Hear from Kelly Gallagher on the podcast this week.

How does background knowledge determine how we make decisions in the age of click-and-go reading?

How can you start the year off right and avoid the collective groan elicited from assigning a whole class classic novel? Is there a better entry point or a way to build up to this? The answer, start with book clubs.