A Year of Reading

Hemingway and I love the mobile Joy Acey sent all the way from Hawaii! Her poem about birds can be found on the...birds! BIRDS ...

#ISTE16 was a fabulous experience.  But one of my favorite things was the #ISTEKids session that was facilitated by Chris Lehman and Camill...

Go to Teach Mentor Texts or Unleashing Readers  for the It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Round-Up! Stuff I've read online t...

free image from pixabay.com Cleaning Dandelions Out of the Iris Satisfying snap -- trowel cuts roots below ground. They're bo...

When I went to NCTE last year, I picked up an ARC of Duck, Duck, Porcupine by Salina Yoon. I am a huge Salina Yoon fan.   Be a Friend ...

I have been a fan of Jeannie Baker's wordless picture books since the beginning of my wordless picture book obsession. Her art and the ...

I just came back from a Choice Literacy Writing Retreat. I am always amazed at the whole idea of a retreat. I never come back feeling like ...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by SB HOMESICK The pears on the kitchen counter are probably ripe by now, and the basil in the rai...

 My online reading has had a lot of variety lately! Maybe because it's summer and I have time to read things I might not ty...

I don't have a lot of time to read Young Adult fiction but it is my absolute favorite! So this summer I am going to try to fit in a fe...