Podcast: Kelly Gallagher on Readicide
In Part I of our conversation with Kelly Gallagher, he describes how years and years of high stakes testing have dulled students' comprehension skills. He says that not only are his students struggling with required classroom reading, but they have also abandoned leisure reading completely. "In chasing test scores, we are killing the love of reading," warns Kelly.
In Part II of our conversation with Kelly, he asks, "What good does it do to raise reading scores if in the process we kill any prospects that our students will become lifelong readers?" and offers advice on how to initiate changes in your school and district to develop lifelong readers--starting with your own classroom.
Listen to the podcast and then browse Readicide in its entirety.
