A Year of Reading

One of my students was on a picture book reading binge. She brought me The Pencil , by Allan Ahlberg and suggested it for #classroombookada...

You've heard about it, you've marked it "To Read" in GoodReads, maybe you've even ordered it and have it on your st...

The Literacy Connection events are always two of my favorite days of the year.  Last week, we were lucky to learn with Pam Allyn and it wa...

WonderFALL by Michael Hall Greenwillow, 2016 Brightly colored trees? Check. Clear blue skies and comfortable temperatures? Check. ...

Of course Beth from Selections Books had SOOOO many books that were new-to-me. I try to keep up with new books and I count on Beth to share...

We had a great weekend with Pam Allyn at our Fall Literacy Connection event. More on that in another blog post. But when you are around so ...

Unsplash photo by Echo Grid First this: Poetry Ruined My Life From the essay:  I still have the Leaves of Grass that dad gave m...

There's that one thing that you did that one year and it was magical, so you decided you would do that same thing every year in exa...

Photo from Unsplash by Jeremy Thomas The Three Goals by David Budbill The first goal is to see the thing in itself in and for itsel...

Baabwaa & Wooliam: A Tale of Literacy, Dental Hygiene, and Friendship by David Elliott illustrated by Melissa Sweet If the auth...