Tag: reading challenges
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Reading Challenges I’m Considering for 2019 #sol19
I’ve never met a reading challenge I didn’t want to commit to (well, except for the John Grisham Challenge I saw this morning. I don’t want to do that one). But I’m the first to admit I’m not very good at follow-through. And that’s ok. It’s fun to commit to challenges, research books, and make…
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Reading Challenges: Slice of Life #sol18 25/31
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…
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Best of 2014 Reading Challenge Check-in
Last week’s #MustReadin2015 check-in reminded me that I set other reading goals for 2015, and now might be a good time to check on my progress. I’m obsessed with all of the annual best of books lists, so I put together my own reading challenge of 2014 titles that sounded interesting compiled from many different…
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2015 Reading Challenges and #MustReadin2015 List
How I love cooking up reading challenges and planning a year of reading! I don’t always stick to the plan, but for ardent readers, there is a great deal of pleasure in making reading plans. I’ve decided to join a few challenges in 2015, create one challenge of my own, and commit to 31 titles…
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#MustReadin2014 Fall Update
#MustReadin2014 is a nifty reading challenge dreamed up by one of my favorite bloggers, Carrie Gelson at There Is a Book for That. The idea is to make a dent in that endless and ever-growing To Be Read list by committing to a number of books you want to make sure you finally read. I have…
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Reading Challenges in Children’s Literature
This week in my Children’s Literature class, I have invited my students to design their own reading plan for the rest of the semester. Last semester as I tried to transition this course to a reading workshop, I asked students to commit to a reading challenge at the beginning of the course when most of them…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #imwayr 4/28/14
Visit Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog this week: Sunday Salon should have been called Monday Salon, since it was a day late, but at least I got it posted! I looked forward a couple of weeks to the start of summer…
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#MustReadin2014 Challenge Check-in
For 2014, I returned to setting reading goals for myself. I decided to continue with several reading challenges and join a few new ones. It’s not always easy to gauge if the number of reading challenges or books you select for a challenge is right until you get into your reading year. For example, reading…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/31/14 #imwayr
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. This week on my blog: I collected some of my favorite articles from the week in Sunday Salon I celebrated the reading community I see developing in my Children’s Literature class I recommended some blogs for one…
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Readers Have Plans
One of the main things that keeps me reading is that I always have more books queued up to read. I’m never at a loss when I finish a book, because there’s a stack or a list or a shelf waiting. More and more, I believe that Penny Kittle’s words are the key to lifelong…
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