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Interview in Authority Magazine about how parents can help their children thrive in school

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 16, 2022
Post category:asking questions Children Class Size Counselling Education Homework Help Interviews journaling Kids Learning Differences Learning Differences Parenting Psychological Issues reading School Study Skills Studying Tips

Recently, I was interviewed by Authority Magazine about how parents can help their children thrive in school. The Editor-in-Chief is Yitzi Weiner, and he just published the article. Here is a link to this interview.https://medium.com/@authoritymag2/janet-ruth-heller-on-the-5-things-parents-can-do-to-help-their-children-thrive-and-excel-in-school-78fd90b270de #education#parentingadvice#classsize#learningdifferences#counselling#reading#journaling#askingquestions#homeworkhelp#studyskills#school

New Approaches to Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 1, 2020
Post category:Conference Presentations Education Humanities Janet's Speaking Events Nonfiction Workshop for Teachers

Janet Ruth Heller will be speaking about “Keys to Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction” for the Michigan Reading Association Conference at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday, March 14, 2020 and Monday, March 16, 2020. She will do her presentation on Saturday, March 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Brule B and on Monday, March 16 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Brule A. Please come! Her website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/ This session will explore new approaches to reading and analyzing nonfiction developed by contemporary educators and researchers, including Heller. Old strategies for teaching students how to read, analyze, and write nonfiction often confuse our classes. For example, the five-paragraph essay paradigm oversimplifies the structure of most nonfiction. Participants will discuss some complex modern essays, applying the new strategies. Heller has published many essays, scholarly articles, and books of nonfiction, and she has also published analyses of nonfiction. Participants will receive handouts detailing possible structures and lesson plans for teaching nonfiction. Janet Ruth Heller giving a presentation at…

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.