Developing Lifelong Readers.
The end of August is coming fast I really don’t know where the summer has gone. For me since I was in education for many years, with the...
Background Knowledge about the Fourth of July and our Country
Why do we celebrate 4th of July? If you ask your children this question you might hear such things as: go on vacations, swimming, go on a...
30 MIN EVERYDAY - PERFECT SCORE ON ACT EXAM
My blogs are going to be coming from three main sources: Jim Trelease's "The Read-Aloud Handbook, 7th edition, The Power of Reading:...
Lucy Calkins – Directs the Literacy Specialist Program
Yesterday when I was thinking about writing my blog. I began to think back over the years of writing and teaching writing. My thoughts...
Retirement
I was just going to write that I was retired and then I looked up the meaning of retired. One official meaning is: left one’s job and...