Former Site Director Discusses Summer Reading and Teaching Writing

Publication: Bloomberg
Date: June 11, 2008

Summary: Bruce Penniman, former site director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project and a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about summer reading for students and teaching writing.

Excerpt from Podcast: Getting Kids Involved in Reading

There are a lot of students who are just natural readers and who love to do it and others who come to it much more reluctantly. I think that at least for high school students, and I suspect for a lot of younger ones as well, the real attraction in quality literature is that it focuses on big ideas. Not everybody loves to delve into the act of reading, but most people like to talk about ideas. And sometimes that's a way to get kids involved.

Listen to the Full Interview

Download and listen to the full interview, Penniman Sees Progress on Creative Writing in Schools , from the Bloomberg On the Economy podcast page.