A Year of Reading

WITH THE LIGHT (Vol. 1): RAISING AN AUTISTIC CHILD By Keiko Tobe Hachette Book Group, September 2007 (Vol. 2 to be published March 2008) Re...

So, I made it to WEEK 4 of Boot Camp ! I can hardly believe that I have made it through 15 days.The name (Adventure Boot Camp for Women) ce...

Lois Lowry appreciates all the work teachers do. Thanks.

The Orbis Pictus Awards were announced by NCTE on Friday . Such a great list of nonfiction!

The moral of this story is, "Let them talk during read aloud." In reading workshop, we've been working on finding the themes/m...

Remember to think twice when you are frustrated. Perhaps you should think of him as a poet rather than a problem. The Poet by Tom Wayman Lo...

Great read aloud today! I love it when the sense of humor part of 4th graders' brains starts to develop in earnest. Or in hilarity, as...

I visited Joseph-Beth Bookstore in Cincinnati over the weekend. I was thrilled to see a republished edition of one of my favorite books fro...

It was a big week for us in Columbus. Jon Scieszka and Loren Long stopped by Columbus on their book tour for their new, amazing series f...

Mrs. Baker from The Wednesday Wars definitely deserves a place on our list of 100+ Cool Teachers in Children's Literature. What a gre...