Tag: reading workshop
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Middle Schoolers Will Read…If We Let Them: Slice of Life #sol18 28/31
Yesterday, a group of eighth graders on a college campus visit were guests in my Children’s Literature class. It’s perhaps not the best class to choose to visit if you want a sense of what college is really like. They walked in the room to find Elephant & Piggie titles on display all over the…
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Digital Reading: What’s Essential Ch 1 and 2 #cyberPD
#CyberPD is an online professional development learning community where teachers read and discuss a common professional development text. Visit Reflect & Refine for more details and links to connect with the group. This year’s book is Digital Reading: What’s Essential in Grades 3-8 by Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass. After reading two chapters of Digital Reading,…
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Wild Readers in a College Children’s Literature Course: Part 3 #cyberPD
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…
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Reading Like a Wolf Eats
Sometimes it seems like every available surface in my house and office looks like this. And I’m not in the middle of moving or reorganizing bookshelves. I just like books. A lot. This week, I laid my cards on the table in Adolescent Literature class.The only thing I really care that you do in this…
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Reading in the Wild: Self-Selected Reading
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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Reading in the Wild: Time for Reading
I am so happy to be making my way slowly through Donalyn Miller’s new book, Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer’s Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits. This is the kind of book I want to rush through in an afternoon, but I retain more when I take my time and write about what…
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