Melinda J.

I’m Melinda. I’ve been teaching reading for over thirty years—long enough to have seen educational trends come and go, curriculums rewritten, and test formats reshaped. But one thing has never changed: the look in a student’s eyes when they finally “get it”—when words stop being a blur on a page and start becoming a story, an argument, a truth they can own. That’s the moment I live for. Over the years, I’ve built a toolbox that includes everything from close-reading strategies and annotation te…