One of my favorite truths from Donalyn Miller’s wonderful book, Reading in the Wild, is that readers have plans. I love to make reading plans. I am constantly cooking up some new plan for myself. Sometimes, maybe even often, I spend more time making reading plans than I do actually reading. I’m not sure what Donalyn…
Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild, one of my favorite books about teaching, is the title chosen for this year’s #cyberPD event. This week, Literacy Learning Zone hosts a discussion of Chapter 5. I radically revised the Children’s Literature course I teach to elementary education majors last semester with one goal in mind: the care and feeding of wild…
Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild is the title chosen for this year’s #cyberPD event. This week, Ruminate & Invigorate hosts a discussion of Chapters 3 and 4. Reading in the Wild is one of my favorite books about teaching, and in my post this week, I will focus on how I applied the ideas in…
Donalyn Miller’s Reading in the Wild is the title selected for this summer’s #cyberPD event. Reflect & Refine is coordinating this week’s discussion. This is one of my favorite books about teaching reading, and I’m excited to join the conversation this month. I’ve already written about the first two chapters of the book here and…
This week, I’m joining the Celebration at Ruth Ayres Writes. This week, I am celebrating all of the wonderful reading and blogging the students in my Adolescent Literature class have ahead of them. They really got started reading and writing in earnest this week. Mackenzie finished Speak, Becca read Kids of Kabul, Kali read The…
I can remember giving my days (and often my nights) over to books when I was a child and teenager. I read in great gulps, bingeing on books. When I found myself in a good book, I would shut out the rest of the world, shunning friends, family, and often sleep, in order to read.…
I finished Reading in the Wild this weekend. This is definitely a book that I think all teachers should read, though I think that teachers who have been using reading workshop in their classrooms for at least a couple of years will probably find it most valuable. It’s only after you’ve been using the workshop…
Head to Katherine’s blog and Colby’s blog to learn about the #nerdlution challenge. I have been thinking a lot about what I want to commit to for #nerdlution. My first thought was, a writing challenge! But I already write every day, so why do I need a new challenge for something I’m already doing? Sure,…
I have arranged my tweets and retweets from #NCTE13 to tell a particular story of my learning at the conference: [View the story “#NCTE13 Recap ” on Storify]
Writing about her own and her husband’s reading lives, Donalyn Miller notes, “We rarely read a book that we don’t enjoy or at least appreciate”–and that’s because she and her husband have developed a trusted set of criteria for choosing books. Miller argues that teachers need to support students in developing their own system because…
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