Hi- I am Carol Sherrill. I am just finishing up my 21st year of teaching. I am also finishing up my grad classes! I have come a long way since my undergrad days. I was a PE major at ASU. Due to budget cuts during my second year of teaching, I was placed in a middle school classroom teaching reading, math, social studies and language arts. I loved it. So, I went back to school and added on some certifications. I have been in a language arts classroom ever since. I love to read and I love to encourage reading with my students. Until I started grad school, most of my personal reading has been strictly for pleasure. My pleasure reading has taken a back seat for a couple years and I have found myself spending a lot of time with research articles and informational text. My current interests include culturally diverse adolescent reading material and literacy strategies. I love to write, yet I find getting my students to write very painful. It is hard to get them to break away from form writing and be more creative.
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I am not surprised, but feel driven to try harder, when I hear you say that your middle schoolers are afraid to write. Beth Frye's class had lots of good ideas for encouraging writing for all grade levels.
Posted by Christy Findley | June 4, 2010 3:57 PM
Posted on June 4, 2010 15:57