A Year of Reading

Ruth and Stacey at Two Writing Teachers have announced a great new March contest--"The Slice of Life" Challenge . They are chall...

RIVETED by Robyn Sarah from A Day's Grace: Poems 1997-2002 . It is possible that things will not get better than they are now, or have b...

I got an email this week with the subject, "Are you snowed in?" The answer is no, we're not snowed IN, we're snowed UNDER....

Saturday, February 23 +/- 700 teachers and librarians 8 great authors: Pam Munoz Ryan , Jenni Holm , Jennifer Roy , Melanie Watt , Sharon Ta...

As I sat at my desk pondering the topic of this chant, I looked at the walls above my desk: at the thunderhead and windmill photo I've h...

Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2008 ages 9-12 The beginning of this book is very scar...

I've got nothin' today. Monday snuck up on me this week. Here's someone who's with it -- go check out Karen's post at Li...

Previously by Allan Ahlberg illustrated by Bruce Ingman Candlewick, 2007 My students are going to love this book! We've been on a read ...

I LOVED THE YEAR OF THE DOG when it came out last year so I was THRILLED to see this sequel at the bookstore last week! The Year of the Rat...

Inspired by April Pulley Sayre's three chant books Trout, Trout, Trout , Ant, Ant, Ant , and Bird, Bird, Bird , I set out to create a ch...