Posts for tag: reading instruction

Teaching Students To Ask Questions

Posted on November 27, 2016

The door of the English classroom next to mine holds a quote by George Carlin. I had never heard of George Carlin before seeing the quote (apparently he was a comedian), and I’m not sure if I would have agreed with anything he said or believed, but this quote struck me nonetheless: “Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.”

In my classroom I have the desire to teach