2024 Books
I didn't read a huge amount of books last year but I felt the quality was very high overall, with decent variety, too. Here's hoping 2025 is even better. The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading by Christopher Such This was fantastically useful and also rather disappointing. Useful because it is a great review of current research on teaching methods for reading, complete with suggestions for structuring lessons. Terrifying because I came across some critical elements of reading instruction that I haven't been covering sufficiently - for years. "Oops is the sound we make when we improve our beliefs and strategies." This book should really help improve my teaching practice and I expect to have more to say about Such's work going forward. He has a follow-up coming out this year. Learning in Depth by Kieran Egan I enrolled in a 6-week intensive Learning in Depth summer course. Now I am mentoring a 30-week version and I have launched an experimental progra...