Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

05.29.13 On Abuelita and the Perils of “Rounding Up”

Screening video with the team at Taxonomy Towers this morning.   We watched a second year teacher at work with her 6th grade reading students.  She’s a strong teacher whose classroom is productive and pretty rigorous… she asked them to write for sustained periods on demanding, rigorous and text based writing prompts about a very good and…