This month has been all about planning. Before Thanksgiving arrives, I will have given three presentations, begun teaching a parent-child literacy class and made significant progress toward deciding this year’s choice in the Cybil awards. While I may be struggling to find time to blog through all my planning, I do continue to read to […]

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I am in one of those points in life when my personal and professional life are completely intertwined. The reading I do for “work” is so directly related to my own children that I often step back and think how lucky I am to be  passionate about something that is truly important for my own children. I […]

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the most fantastic resource! I am in the process of putting together a parent seminar anda parent-child class each called Growing Readers. The process is both exhausting and truly exhilarating. It is so wonderful to be doing work that really and truly does not feel a bit like work. As part of my preparation I am […]

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This week, my oldest daughter read with her teacher. While she was excited to tell me that she had gone up a reading level, she was most excited to let me know about her teacher’s subjective comments. She let Caroline know that she read with beautiful expression. And then that teacher must have gotten her […]

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