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School / Work Affiliation: Head of School, Kalamazoo Country Day School

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About Me: Brian Kissman is an author, educator, consultant and public speaker whose goal is to end the literacy crisis in the US and beyond by providing teachers, parents and students with groundbreaking and engaging learning tools anchored by scientific research.

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Essential Questions for Meaningful Conversation - Story Analysis

Posted on January 22, 2017 at 9:56am 1 Comment 0 Likes

What if students from classroom to classroom, one grade level to the next, and from school to school across the United States had a "core" set of questions for meaningful conversation that would apply from early elementary story books to first chapter books to classic novels (i.e., think The Old Man and the Sea).

Through such recursive application, might it be that they would grow from 'playing the chords' to making the questions their own and applying them with 'a bit of…

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