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THE COMMENTARY PROJECT: AN APPRENTICESHIP IN TALKING AND WRITING ABOUT READING

Watch Professor Sheridan Blau demonstrate how students can learn to discuss and write about reading by taking part in a shared literary community in the classroom.

Last updated 8 September 2026

Synopsis:

This masterclass demonstrates how students at all levels can learn to write and talk productively about their reading by taking on an active participant role in an intellectual and literary community that they help to form in their own classrooms.

The masterclass enacts the creation of a model literary community and exemplifies the critical moves that are required to create a model community where the commentary project is adopted as a regular practice for talking and writing about reading.

Presenter:

Professor Sheridan Blau
Teachers College, Columbia University

Click here to download the resources Professor Blau referred to in his video. (opens in new tab)