This is one of those proud moments you have as a teacher where you have an idea for a lesson and it actually happens. I had created an experience that allowed my students to interact with a classic text that might not have been accessible if I had simply handed them an anthology.
Website Review: Diverse BookFinder
You’re either going to love us or hate us. Today, we bring you a relatively simple little site with a powerful mission. It’s so simple and so powerful that you might just wonder where the time went as you explore! Ever since our chapter on multicultural classroom resources for the urban literacy educator was published […]
Website/App Review: Planbook.com
As the librarian, I get to see the PreK – 6th grade classes every week for library AND technology, but keeping track of which class did what last week and what I wanted to do with them this week was stressing me out!
Book Review: One Cool Friend, by Toni Buzzeo
Why I Picked It Up: I actually didn’t pick this one up, my 3.5 year old son did on one of our sort-of-weekly library trips. He usually picks up a few of his own books, but this time, he found this one and brought it to me. “I choosed it out for you, Mommy because […]
Big News: Come Visit Us in Waco!
We’re offering a face-to-face session in Waco, TX this summer! Make plans to join us on June 20, 2017, for a full-day (6 CPE) professional development session on Writers’ Workshop! Download the flier for all the details and 5 reasons you won’t want to miss this session! Writers’ Workshop Flier PDF [button link=”https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfR_lYhr-mGze7l2qlpyWD97hSSBrIHmcm4D2HUWC1YLBlUhQ/viewform?usp=sf_link” color=”black” newwindow=”yes”] Register […]
Book Review: Cowboy Car, by Jeanie Franz Ransom
Why I Picked It Up: This adorable little book, Cowboy Car, was received from a publisher (along with SPLATypus!), and I knew it would be mine because 1) it had a car on the front, and 2) that car was blue. My three-year-old son is currently obsessed with the Cars movie and he believes everything blue is his. […]
