Part 3 (of 3) Delightfully for me, reading middle grade books is part of my job. I suppose reading as many as I do is not *actually* part of my job description. But after reading about how one teacher knows all the books in her classroom library so she can better recommend books to different… Continue reading Top Middle Grade Reads of 2020
Category: Book Lists
Top Nonfiction Reads of 2020
Part Two Ironically, I couldn't narrow my nonfiction reads down to just 5. I say "ironic" because I read so much more fiction than nonfiction! So I decided, "Why limit myself to an arbitrary number?" Books can often be a "top read" based on when you and the book find each other. What I find… Continue reading Top Nonfiction Reads of 2020
Top 5 Fiction Reads of 2020
As promised, here is my first installment of: My criteria for including titles on this list are a combination of most of these: I ranked it with 5 stars on GoodreadsIt stuck with me for a long time after reading itIt made me thinkThe writing itself was beautiful, the characters were well-developed, and/or the storyline… Continue reading Top 5 Fiction Reads of 2020
5 Books on Technology, Productivity, and Relationships
Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels.com When the pandemic hit this spring, I all of a sudden found myself in a very different position than normal: for the first time in pretty much ever, I had no set schedule. At that point, we hadn't created a fixed online school schedule. With an entire work day… Continue reading 5 Books on Technology, Productivity, and Relationships
Read-aloud Ideas
Want to skip straight to the read-aloud suggestions ? Click here Today on Instagram, I reposted a quote from Mem Fox that a friend posted: When I say to a parent, "read to a child," I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. Mem Fox Reading aloud is… Continue reading Read-aloud Ideas
