Tag: reading resolutions

• Top 10 Reading Goals for 2015 #AMonthofFaves

  

  Today, I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday and A Month of Favorites to share 10 reading goals for 2015. 1. Read without numbers. 2014 was the first year I’ve ever quantified my reading goals, and it was an interesting experiment. I didn’t make all the numbers, but knowing that I had specific targets for different kinds […]

  Elisabeth Ellington

  December 30, 2014

  reading challenge, top ten lists

  #amonthoffaves, reading goals, reading goals for 2015, reading reflections, reading resolutions, reading resolutions 2015

• Top Ten Tuesday: A Bookish Bucket List

  

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from The Broke and Bookish: the bookish bucket list. 1. Complete some oeuvres. Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot come to mind as authors I’m close to “finishing” but haven’t quite. Each of these authors still has two or three (or in the case of Dickens, five […]

  Elisabeth Ellington

  March 25, 2014

  reading, reading challenge, top ten lists

  bookish bucket list, bucket list, reading goals, reading resolutions, top ten tuesday

• Reading Goals for 2013

  In Book Love, my favorite professional development read of the 2012, Penny Kittle writes of the importance of setting goals for ourselves as readers. Readers, she points out, have plans. That’s one thing that sets readers apart from non-readers. I require my students to read a lot in addition to the course required reading, and […]

  Elisabeth Ellington

  January 4, 2013

  reading, teaching

  reading resolutions