I must be crazy to start this blog at the end of the school year. Not only is this the busiest time of the year for me, but most of you are probably already winding down your own school year, if you haven’t finished already. Unless, of course, you’re a homeschooler, in which case you’re probably laughing at the rest of us, or sitting at your computer with a smug smile saying to yourself, “I don’t have to worry about ending the school year, our schooling flows naturally from our life.” Okay. Don’t rub it in.<\/p>\n
In any case, welcome to Teen Literacy Tips<\/em>. I’m Nick Senger and I teach eighth grade language arts at a Catholic school in Spokane, Washington. This is my seventeenth year of teaching and my twelfth year as vice principal. You can read more about me and some of my underlying literacy principles on the about Nick page<\/a>. The purpose of this blog and this site is to advance the cause of teen literacy by giving you the tools you need to improve reading instruction to teenagers. As a favor to me and to the cause of Teen Literacy, please tell as many people as you can about this site<\/strong>. There are precious few valuable resources on the web for this age group.<\/p>\n Some of you are teachers or administrators, some of you are homeschooling parents, some of you are parents who want to augment your teen’s classroom education. Some of you may even be teens who have stumbled across this site. You are all welcome here.<\/p>\n Why don’t you introduce yourself by leaving a comment? Since this is the very first Teen Literacy Tips post, you can say that you got involved from the very beginning. In fact, one of you is going to be the very first person to leave a comment. I wish I had a prize for you, but you’ll just have to be satisfied with the knowledge that you were the first.<\/p>\n