Category: Reading
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10 Notable Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators
This week is Children’s Authors and Illustrators week, where we get to highlight the incredible people who create engaging texts for kids of all ages. I have a few different posts planned for you, and I am excited to share them with you! Last week, I wrote about what parents…
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45 Educators Give Their Top 3 Reading Tips for Parents
Picture this: It’s parent-teacher conference time. You’re sitting across from your child’s teacher (or perhaps, these days, seeing them on Zoom), and they’re telling you that your child is behind in reading. As a teacher, I know that’s disheartening for parents to hear, and perhaps the pronouncement even throws you…
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January 2021: Recent Reads
It’s that time again! We’re already halfway through January. Seems a little mind-bendy, if you ask me. Here in Ecuador, first semester doesn’t end before Christmas; it ends the last week of January. So we’re busy doing end-of-semester things like report cards and mid-year assessments. And trying to keep our…
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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…
