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A Conversation with Kelly Gallagher

April 16, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 7 Comments

Remember that post I wrote a few weeks ago about how long I spend grading articles of the week? In today’s post, I’m sharing the entire conversation between Kelly Gallagher and me. A couple of months ago when I was working on Teaching with Articles, I emailed some folks who I believed could greatly help me in […]

The First Article of the Week of the School Year: Key Teaching Points

September 19, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 11 Comments

This past Monday I found myself once again starting kids on the journey that is Kelly Gallagher’s article of the week assignment. I wish I had taken a video of myself teaching (primarily to illustrate that the start, at least in my classroom, is far from the stuff of movies). But since I didn’t, I thought […]

Purposeful Annotation: A “Close Reading” Strategy that Makes Sense to My Students

October 11, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 89 Comments

If you look at my original close reading post, you’ll see I was basically using the phrase “close reading” to refer to annotation. It took me a year or more to realize that I was saying one buzzwordy thing to mean a lot of explicit, less confusing things that readers do when grappling with a […]

Scaffolds for Dominating the Article of the Week

October 4, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 74 Comments

In my last post, I laid out the long, steamy romance that is my history with Kelly Gallagher’s article of the week assignment (disclaimer if you haven’t read it: it’s pretty much not romantic at all, or steamy — it’s just long). In this post, I want to share some resources that come out of last […]

There and Back Again: My Journey with Gallagher’s Article of the Week Assignment

September 27, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 54 Comments

Before the Common Core were a twinkle in David Coleman’s eye, Kelly introduced an assignment into his classroom called article of the week. In the assignment, students read complex informational texts and responded to them in writing. That writing was nearly always a blend of the explanatory and argumentative modes, and it often culminated with a discussion of the issues […]

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