Dog Man to The Rescue: How Book Access Saved My Third Grade Student by Renee...
Teachers, you already know the student I am about to describe. The one who arrives halfway through the year from out of state, with a mother unsure of which grade her son was in just last week. The 9...
View ArticleClaire’s Day: Celebrating Young Readers by Julie K. Rubini
“Thank you for all you do,” the father said, with tears in his eyes. “You don’t understand what this award means to my daughter. She’s had it on her calendar for a month, crossing off the days counting...
View Article20,000 Pennies: How a Book Club Transformed our School Community by Sarah...
I stood in the middle of the room and listened to the sound of more than 20,000 pennies clinking and jingling around me. To my left, a fourth grade student helped her first grade buddy to count the...
View ArticleYou Get a Book and You Get a Book and You Get a Book! by Liz Garden
There is a small part of me that always wanted to be Oprah or Ellen. It’s not because these ladies are so famous that we only need to use their first names to identify them. And it’s not because they...
View ArticleGraphic Novel Geeks Only: Create Your Own After-School Club by Sarah...
If you’re a reading teacher, librarian, or parent, then you probably already know: graphic novels are all the rage. They’re fun to read, they’re deep and evocative, and they engage all kinds of readers...
View ArticleReading is a Forever Thing by Brooks Spencer
As part of a High School English conversation, a couple of teachers were overhead saying “My students won’t read outside the classroom, so there is no need to assign independent reading. It’s a waste...
View ArticleIdeas for Teaching Writing A Book Review by Carrie Rodusky
“Since we don’t know who young writers are going to become, when they are writing we should let them be whoever they are.” John Warner This quote may be finding its way into my upper elementary...
View ArticleCreating a Reading Culture in the Classroom by Ann Hagedorn
When students walk into my classroom, I want them to see that I value reading and books and that my goal is for them to do the same. There is a sign that hangs in the front of my class that states, We...
View ArticleCreating and Maintaining a Classroom Library by Savannah Campbell
I’ll never forget Carson. Carson was in a library organized according to AR level. As the time for checkout dwindled down, he starting sobbing. There was a book he wanted to read, but it wasn’t his...
View ArticleSCBWI’s Third Annual Literacy Initiative Gives Books, Builds Dreams, and...
Children’s Book Creators Join Forces to Provide High Quality Books Plus a Literary Celebration for the MADISON READING PROJECT The members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators...
View ArticleThe Book Matchmaker by Eva Goins
My main goal each year as a teacher is to turn my 8th grade students into readers. I am a matchmaker of twenty-first century minds that are more interested in connecting to a good hotspot over texts...
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Match.com: Helping Older Students Fall in Love With Reading (Again) by Nicole...
I teach a lot of twelfth grade. Newly adults, they are often in one of two places: ready to graduate yesterday, or clinging to their swiftly dwindling childhoods. Sometimes, they’re in both of these...
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Top 10 Ways to Be a Literacy Leader by Liz Garden
Whether you are a teacher leader or you are a leader of a school, you have the ability to lead with reading. All of our students need us to be literacy leaders. We want our students to become readers....
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Are Your Striving Readers Helping Others? by Tammy Mulligan
I think we underestimate the power of helping when it comes to teaching striving readers. In schools, striving readers are typically the ones who receive the most help. Striving readers see multiple...
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The Power of Listening by Clare Landrigan
I was facilitating a professional development session focused on how to administer a reading assessment. A fifth-grade student just finished reading the text and I was beginning the part of the...
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A Climb Inside the Window: Why We Need Diverse Books by Kelly Stephan
It was just another Monday night. I picked up my son from basketball practice…my freckle face boy. He stands out on the court, not only for his sweet basketball moves but for his short stature and...
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Intentionality: What’s in Your Bookshelf? by Laura Wagenman
73.3% in 2015. 50% in 2018. While I love numbers, these numbers are cause for concern, reflection, most importantly, action. According to the School Library Journal, 50% of books published in 2018...
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What Makes a Successful Writer? One Author’s Approach to Instilling a Love of...
When I was in the 2nd grade, my teacher Mrs. Graham wanted us to write a story. She told us we could write about anything we wanted. Anything that interested us. Anything we liked. Anything we wanted...
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It’s Time for a #VirtualFieldTrip to the Everywhere Book Fest! by Anna E. Jordan
There were plenty of things about field trips in the “before times” that were difficult. Budgets for busses were minimal, permissions slips never came back, charging for events magnified inequities...
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Helping Kids Cope During Scary Times by Kris Barr Paquette
As we slowly watched the Covid 19 virus spread across the world until it affected our state, our county, our town we held out hope that by some miracle our little community would go on as normal. Our...
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