Titles by Kelly Gallagher

Reading Reasons
"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? In Reading Reasons, 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.

Deeper Reading
Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface level? 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.

Teaching Adolescent Writers
In an increasingly demanding world of literacy, it has become critical that students know how to write. From the demands of standardized tests to those of the wired workplace, the ability to write well, once a luxury, has become a necessity. In Teaching Adolescent Writers, Kelly shows how students can be taught to write effectively. He shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to motivate young writers, understand the importance of teaching writing, and assess essays in ways that drive better writing performance. Kelly draws on his classroom experiences and work as co-director of a regional writing project to offer teachers both practical ways to incorporate writing instruction into their day, and compelling reasons to do so.

Building Adolescent Readers (DVD)
In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage students with a variety of texts, teaching them what it means to be a good reader.

Twenty Questions Homework (DVD)
Kelly Gallagher's Twenty Questions is an alternative to traditional high school homework assignments that fosters greater text comprehension. The simple design-students write twenty questions as they read assigned text-belies the complexity of the discussion fostered by the student-generated questions. On this day, students use the assignment to respond to George Orwell's 1984 in small-group and whole-class discussions.