A Year of Reading

Check out what others are celebrating this week at www.ruthayreswrites.com Today, we are both attending #MRA14 with friends and collea...

image by Hugh MacLeod at gapingvoid.com Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye A man crosses the street in ...

I'm struggling to maintain a reading life these days. I get 40 minutes a day in the car with my audio book, but LIFE has made it hard f...

We are finishing up a unit of study on nonfiction writing.  In the midst of our study, it became clear that my students needed help ...

I have been thinking about ways to use digital tools in authentic ways in literacy workshop. With a few laptops and a couple of iPads in t...

As recently as the middle of last month, I was in a stew over how often or even whether I should share my original poems on the blog. Louise...

Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies by Cokie Roberts illustrated by Diane Goode Harper, 2014 review copy provided by the publis...

218 poems by 78 poets! The same wonderful format as the K-5 and 6-8 editions, with a poem a day for each grade level AND a "Take F...

World Read Aloud Day is tomorrow! If you don't know about World Read Aloud Day or its sponsoring organization LitWorld , you should...

One of my goals this year was to find more nonfiction authors and series that I knew and loved.  I realized that there were so many fi...