A Year of Reading

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nicki Grimes Bloomsbury, January 3, 2017 review copy provided (thankyouthankyout...

My Name is James Madison Hemings by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Terry Widener This is the story of a boy who has been born int...

This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around Still Learning to Read--teaching reading to students in gr...

Wikimedia fifth grade -- teaching parrots to think ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2016 One of the many hard things about these time...

Penguin Problems by Jory John, illustrated by Lane Smith There's one in every crowd, isn't there? Look at that cover. Every...

This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around Still Learning to Read--teaching reading to students in g...

image via unsplash Some Days by Philip Terman Some days you have to turn off the news and listen to the bird or truck or the neig...

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System! Boy, Were We Wrong About the Weather! ...

This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around Still Learning to Read--teaching reading to students in gr...

I have LOVED being on the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Committee for the past three years.  I have loved reading with the lens of the Charlott...