
Tips, strategies, and stories to help kids fall in love with reading.
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At times, this has felt like the longest school year of my teaching career. Having to move our entire school to a new building, while merging with two other schools, in the middle of the school year, was wild.
But somehow we did it.
sha...
At the end of the day on Thursday I couldn’t decide which picture book I wanted to read my fifth graders. Earlier in the week, I checked out a couple of Peter Brown picture books from our school library: Children Make Terrible Pets and My T...
I have this kid in my class that schools would call a great reader, but he hasn’t ever really seen himself as a reader.
Until he read an Alan Gratz book.
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We were lucky enough to get an advanced copy of Dan Santat’s new graphic novel A Fishboy Named Sashimi. The amount of excitement over this book is off the chart. The kids quickly passed it around the room, and a handful of them have already...
When we came back from spring break last week, I found a package sitting by my school mailbox.
When we came back from spring break last week, I found a package sitting by my school mailbox. I was shocked to open it and find 28 signed copie...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I am a husband, father of five and a fifth grade teacher at the elementary school that I attended as a child. I've written a couple of books with my friend Donalyn Miller: Game Changer! and The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library.
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