HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive

The Ritual of Reading in the Classroom


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In classrooms where the students can read for themselves, reading aloud often falls off the daily schedule. But it’s a ritual well worth keeping—for the sake of literacy, the moral imagination, classroom bonds, and so much more. Long-time Heights teacher Tom Steenson encourages the teachers tending that flame, or wanting to rekindle it, in their own classrooms.

Chapters:
  • 2:08 Goals of reading aloud in the classroom
  • 4:44 The artist sees, then helps others to see
  • 11:47 Books that aren’t landing
  • 15:10 The read-aloud routine, scene-setting
  • 18:35 Reading in a high school classroom
  • 22:27 Separating instruction from narrative
  • 24:59 The effect on teachers
Links:
  • Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation by Josef Pieper
  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Augustine’s Confessions translated by F. J. Sheed
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm by Robert C. O’Brien
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Featured Opportunities:
  • The Art of Teaching Conference at The Heights School (November 13-15, 2024)
Also on the Forum:
  • Classroom Ambience by Joseph Bissex
  • The Read-Aloud Family featuring Sarah Mackenzie
  • Stop Telling Your Son to Read: How to Inspire a Love of Reading featuring Tom Longao
  • How to Master the Art of Reading Outside by Tom Longano
...more
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