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…
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…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
