Bøker av Kelly Gallagher

Showing how students can be taught to write effectively, Kelly shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to understand the importance of teaching writing, and also motivate young writers to see the importance modelling plays, as well as many other techniques.

In his new book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly Gallagher reminds us that standards come and go but what remains constant is the need to stay true to what we know works in the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Kelly is a strong voice of reason, reminding us that instruction should be anchored around one guiding question: What is in the best interest of our students?

Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important they need to emulate good writers. Kelly Gallagher emphasises real-world writing purposes, the kind of writing he wants his students to be doing twenty years from now. Each chapter focuses on a specific discourse: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyse and interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution.

Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools.

Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface-level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you feel that you are doing more work teaching the novel than they are reading it? Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, Kelly Gallagher, author of Reading Reasons, shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension.In Deeper Reading, Kelly shares effective, classroom-tested strategies that enable your students to: accept the challenge of reading difficult books, move beyond a "first draft" understanding of the text into deeper levels of reading, consciously monitor their comprehension as they read, employ effective fix-it strategies when their comprehension begins to falter, use meaningful collaboration to achieve deeper understanding of texts, think metaphorically to deepen their reading comprehension, reach deeper levels of reflection by understanding the relevance the book holds for themselves and their peers, and to use critical thinking skills to analyse real-world issues.

In Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School, author and teacher Kelly Gallagher offers a series of mini-lessons specifically tailored to motivate middle and high school students to read, and in doing so, to help them understand the importance and relevance reading will take in their lives.