I put Mary Jane Beaufrand’s The River on my wishlist months ago. I remember reading about it on a blog and immediately adding it to the list of books I wanted to read. All I remember is that the premise, a missing little girl, grabbed me because it sounded like a true-crime novel. Last week [...]
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On Friday I had my first experience with an e-reader in the classroom. During enrichment, we were reading because the class technically finished on Tuesday but they won’t switch to a new enrichment until this coming Monday. As I looked over the top of my book at the sea of children reading, my eyes fell [...]
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After my last post, a few people asked me where I get my articles for the weekly Article of the Week. Honestly, I think I use a different source each week! However, here are some of the sources I have used so far this year: Science Daily Time For Kids Imagine Magazine (love, love, love [...]
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The trailer is finally here! I laughed at the trailer and think the movie will be a big hit.
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Last year, after reading Kelly Gallagher’s Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It, I was inspired to start using an Article of the Week with my 6th graders. Like Gallagher, I see a distinctive lack of background knowledge with my students which makes it hard for them to read [...]
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This weekend I got to visit my favorite town in the world- Princeton. My fiance and I took a ghost tour of the town on Saturday night and it was awesome! Princeton has always been my all-time favorite town and despite the fact that it’s only 40 minutes away, I don’t get there enough. [...]
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As a follow-up to this post, my students met today to talk about their Article of the Week. (Every Friday my students receive a current events article/editorial and must read and respond to it over the course of the week. The articles broaden their horizons and provide background knowledge and scaffolding for them). We discussed [...]
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A few links from around the blogosphere that you might be interested in: Betsy Bird was awesome enough to film the ALA Awards live. Want to see what it’s like to be in the room when the awards are announced? Check out Part One of her videos. I know I plan to show the Newbery [...]
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Yay!!!! 2010 Newbery Honors: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick And the 2010 Newbery Medal goes to………… Rebecca Stead for When You Reach Me!!!!!!!!! This [...]
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Right now, there are authors, illustrators, editors, agents, and other book people getting ready to go to bed (or already sleeping) and completely unaware that they will receive a life-changing phone call in just a few hours. The Newbery Committee has made its selections, the press release has been drafted, and at 7:45am the awards [...]
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