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changing the system — how about some short, unit-sized texts?

| May 30, 2009

I received a letter from an old friend and fellow freelance writer today. She described a typical request from a textbook development house: can you write 37 pages of high school chemistry, this week? This is so typical of textbook development houses. And I have some sympathy for their situation, because often they don’t receive [...]

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Bringing a Whole Language Approach to Middle and High School Classrooms

| December 24, 2008

This post has been sitting here with no text in it for weeks. How appalling! When I came back to this title, I realized that it’s kind of silly — after all, the alternative to whole language is generally phonics, and middle and high school students should have a good handle on how to read [...]

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