What If They Take the Books Away?
Next week the NCTE Annual Convention begins with author sessions aplenty and a new book feature, Build Your Stack®. Needless to say, the convention promises a literacy teacher’s heart-palpitating collection…
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My Personal Reading Record
…breaks were times for me to choose for ME. I was inspired by the Build Your Stack® initiative to think back about specific points in my life and reminisce about…
A Book Is a Precious Thing
…to encourage our students to read. We’re well aware that books engage us, teach us, please us, and that books save lives. We own stacks of books but can spend…
Taking Blackout Poetry to the Next Level
…scissors, stacks of newspapers, and used books from secondhand stores. Students also seem less intimidated by the process of erasing, as opposed to composing new writing. For those starting out,…
Teacher Appreciation Week 2019
…Journal articles. Bonus giveaway: A collection of journal articles (in PDF and/or printed form) on a topic of the winner’s choice. Tuesday, May 7 #BuildYourStack with book recommendations from colleagues…
It’s Time
…you’re reading for your teacher selves and which you’re reading in order to share them with your students (#buildyourstack), about different ways of thinking about how you teach reading and…
Living with, Learning from, and Loving the Toughest Readers to Please
…shop online has helped to make us all responsible for building our classroom stacks. I fundraise and keep a gift card for our local bookstore to make sure I can…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the NCTE Annual Convention
…session and then spend some time wandering the city or checking out poster presentations or the #BuildYourStack sessions in the Exhibit Hall. Since Minneapolis, I’ve attended the NCTE Conventions in…
Helping Students to Love Their Reading
…fortunately, we know about great resources like Build Your Stack,® and #Disrupt Texts to help us expand our classroom libraries. I have seen my students’ excitement this year in my…
Some Things I Missed This Year
…speeches, the chorus and band practice their final performance, the senior class advisor and the counselors check and recheck the diplomas, stacked up in some secret location until they’re loaded…
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