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Very interesting post.

Blog for teachers--this post is especially for primary teachers. Look what these kids are doing. Their learning is so interactive!

Nice blog post about thinking about community building at the beginning of the school year.

Great blog post for starting the beginning of the school year.

If you love Byrd Baylor, picture books, or have ever had a bad day, you will appreciate this blog post.

Cathy Mere's blog--well worth reading, this is a great post about taking time to observe and get to know your students in other ways besides formal assessment.

About book ladders and helping older kids make text to text connections. Have you read Teri Lesesne's book? It's a good one.

Thought might be interesting to look at some of these articles because of the inner circle debate going on around this film

Great post. A lot of familiar ideas for starting the school year but still refreshing and worth reading.

Great blog post: The case against teaching paragraph writing the hamburger way.

THis is AWESOME! WHat I love about it is the use of digital literacy. I think it's a great example of the kind of stuff that we could be teaching kids how to do to share the information they learn. WIth regard to teaching reading and writing, I see possibilities for teaching point of view and subtle persuasion. Lots of potential. Very powerful. How's that for a new kind of report? It requires analysis and synthesis of information. That's what we need to be teaching kids!

Definitely check this out. I am going to be posting it on the website because I think it has lots of teaching possibilities embodied in it.

Interesting...I wish it were longer. This would be good for part of a morning meeting or when they write about their favorite and least favorite color. I wonder if there is more research on the origin of names,,,

Straightforward talk about guided reading from the gurus themselves

I decided to ask them for specifics with strategy vs guided. I will let you know if I recieve reply.

Some thoughts and resources for launching the reading workshop in september

Kim- I read an interview (can't find it again) but I really liked the question, "When you return to a book, how do you remember what you are reading about?" or something like that. I used it last year and found it enlightening. Some kids said they reread the last page. Some said they use a post and write their last thought. One said he took speech and learned how to just remember better.

Always interested to learn more about what Finland is doing and we're not.

Lots of good information from the gurus themselves.

It's not all doom and gloom for teenage readers. Their reading just looks diffferent nowadays.