A Year of Reading

I had a chance to talk to our Usborne sales representative last week at the Dublin Literacy Conference. I hadn't kept up with all of ...

It has been a big book-buying week for me. First I attended the Dublin Literacy Conference, then we hosted a Selections Book Fair. I was exc...

flickr creative commons photo by C hica ♥ :* Perfection, Perfection by Kilian McDonnell ("I will walk the way of perfection."...

Snow and ice, with a break for jazz and Chinese food at PF Chang. More snow, with a delightful warm spell, spring-ish skies, a trip to Ski...

I am reading The Search For WondLa to my fourth graders. I almost told this English Language Learner to put her paper away during read alo...

The 2011 Dublin Literacy Conference was one of the best ever! I haven't had time to write my learning from the day yet but lots of othe...

(click the image to get a larger, clearer view) This was an unsolicited-by-me blog post on one of my students' blogs...on our snow day ...

It feels like I've reached a summit of sorts! Flickr creative commons photo by Dru! But if I'm at the summit, that means the next...

Below are my slides from my session at the Dublin Literacy Conference. How Can Tools of Technology Impact the Reading Workshop? Dublin l...

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. Part One: Life XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor a...