Category: Reading
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2021 Reading Challenge Roundup
Oh my goodness. I started searching the web for y’all to see if I could pick a few challenges for you for the new year. There are SO MANY out there! I curated a list of six different reading challenges that looked good to me. Some avid readers complete many…
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Top Middle Grade Reads of 2020
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…
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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…
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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 Goodreads It stuck with me for a long time after reading it It made me think The writing itself was…
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December 2020: Recent Reads
I’ll be honest, after reading so many FABULOUS books in November, this past month was a bit of a let down. I guess I’ve been in a some kind of a slump. Makes me want to go read some Anne of Green Gables just for a solid read that I…
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5 Books on Technology, Productivity, and Relationships
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 at…
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Class vs. Teacher Reading Challenge
One of the things that has been killing me about teaching online is that I can’t have my class do their 15 minutes of daily independent reading at the beginning of ELA class, nor meet for one-on-one reading conferences during that time. Last year, students read independently every day and…
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November 2020: Recent Reads
I missed writing about my recent reads in October, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading! In fact, just a few days ago, I was able to reach my numerical goal of reading 100 books this year. I set that goal because I got to about 70 books last…
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How Do I Find Books Worth Reading?
A couple of years ago, when I first started reading a lot again, and reading more purposefully, I felt daunted by the prospect of finding books outside of what I normally read. I’d walk into the library, excited by all of the potential in the stacks filled with books, but…
