Students used to reading digital texts can be supported in reading both those and print-based texts critically through a variety of strategies and applications. Connected reading, or the idea that our reading is networked both physically and digitally to create a shared construction of meaning, involves readers working with text in both recursive…

Finding a platform to anchor learning for struggling adolescent students whose backgrounds seemingly did not provide links to core knowledge, led the author to use music and literary instruction adapted through the conventions of forensics instruction as the hooks to link learning. In this article, the author explains how the universal language of…