Thinking about Theme

Mar 3, 2013 by

This past week I spent a morning in a second grade reading workshop. These second graders had been working on taking their...

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How Will You Live Your Life Di...

Feb 15, 2013 by

Have you ever read a book and known that you will never be the same person you were before you started it?  That the words on the...

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How Will You Live Your Life Di...

Feb 13, 2013 by

When your students finish reading a book, what is the next thing they are expected to do?  Take an AR quiz? Write a book report?...

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How Do We Teach Close Reading?

Jan 28, 2013 by

I’m reading a book that is changing the way I read and the way I talk to kids about their reading.  This happened to me once...

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Building Community Through Emp...

Oct 3, 2012 by

A couple of months ago I wrote about an anchor experience I had at the post office during the summer Olympics. Yesterday I had another...

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The Olympics and Anchor Texts

Aug 5, 2012 by

I have taken an unplanned writing sabbatical this summer.  Well, not actually a writing sabbatical—just a blogging one.  I have...

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